Kentucky – Page 4 – People's World

Trump and GOP sustain major losses in elections this week

November 6, 2019 By John Wojcik

Voters in Kentucky and Virginia send the president a message: Your coat tails are very short.

Unpaid Harlan County miners sitting in and blocking coal trains

August 2, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

Never piss off a coal miner, especially if you haven’t paid him for weeks – and then try to ship the last load of coal he dug out of the mountains out of town.

Ocasio-Cortez to talk Green New Deal with Kentucky coal miners

March 29, 2019 By Julia Conley

Ocasio-Cortez said the struggles of people in towns which have in the past relied on coal mines as major economic drivers are "very close to [her] heart. Folks may not think of that because I'm from...

Young Navajo woman brutally murdered in Kentucky

December 7, 2018 By Albert Bender

A young Navajo woman, 26 year-old Amanda Dakota Webster was slain December 1, at a hotel in Florence, Kentucky.

Kentucky Supreme Court upholds GOP-passed “right-to-work” law

December 3, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

By a 4-3 vote, the Kentucky Supreme Court handed another win to the right-wing and GOP partisan forces’ crusade to destroy unions and workers’ rights, upholding the Commonwealth’s GOP-enacted so-called “right to work” law.