For eight straight years, the UK boxing club had come within a punch of its ultimate goal: a regional championship. This year, the Cats hoped to finally end Navy’s domination over UK, but once again, their efforts came up just short as the Midshipmen took home another regional crown. Despite another second-place finish, the Cats [...]
With 10 seconds left and Marquette’s Erin Monfre headed to the free-throw line to shoot the front end of a 1-and-1, UK’s fate had been all but sealed. The Cats’ season was coming to an end. Yet, despite the emotions and realization that yesterday’s 69-64 loss to the Golden Eagles would the last in blue [...]
Continue reading …The idea of a political party is simple: a group of people with similar ideas banding together to help elect public officials who share their political beliefs; a team dedicated to helping shape the country’s policies around the beliefs of its members. Considering the current Democratic presidential nomination race, however, it seems that the true [...]
Continue reading …A bill that would ban Alcohol Without Liquid, a machine that vaporizes alcohol and mixes it with oxygen, has successfully made it through both houses of the state legislature. But unless lawmakers can show that the ban is based on more than just conjecture and assumptions, then it should not become law. Rep. Susan Westrom, [...]
Continue reading …By Juliann Vachon LOUISVILLE — Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign stopped in Louisville on Saturday afternoon for a rally with energetic supporters who believe, like she does, that the Kentucky Democratic primary matters this year. “I can’t do any of this without your help,†Clinton said in front of a crowd of about 2,500 at duPont [...]
Continue reading …Uninformed voters have a chance to be educated today. Project Vote Smart will be on campus today to provide information about politicians and candidates. Project Vote Smart is a non-partisan political research organization that formed in the early 1990s. The idea came from a group of people who felt voters were not getting the whole [...]
Continue reading …By Ashley Bowman Hundreds of people had already filled the seats of the Kentucky Theater on Saturday, but more kept piling in to the sound of bluegrass music from a banjo played center stage to protest the demolition of the Rosenberg Block downtown to make way for a new hotel development. The organizers of “Wake [...]
Continue reading …Members of the Kentucky Senate and the House of Representatives met multiple times over the weekend to negotiate a budget that will likely result in higher taxes or higher tuition — or both. The House and Senate have been in a conference committee since Wednesday trying to find middle ground between the drastically different $19 [...]
Continue reading …Housework, stay-at-home mothers and housewives are sticky terms that have divided feminists since Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique†suggested that women might not inherently love their traditional roles as housekeepers and mothers. Many of you out there might think I am crazy for even bringing this up, but just last week, one of my feminist [...]
Continue reading …Luxury is an interesting word. Its definition varies on whom you ask. It could be an 82-inch plasma flat screen capping off a living room strangled with leather couches on a Caribbean yacht. It could be floor seats at Rupp Arena. It could be having enough cash to buy expensive beer one weekend. It could [...]
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