NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 — A special committee of 2nd Congressional District GOP leadership recently denied the appeal filed by members of the local party organization regarding how several recent meetings were conducted and the election of Don Thrasher, former Republican candidate for judge executive, as county chairman. […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Monday, Nov. 12, 2018 — This year’s election turned a promised blue wave nationally into something akin to a blue slosh or purple puddle – pick your metaphor – as progressives’ hopes for an overwhelming repudiation of President Donald Trump and his populist policies didn’t transpire. It […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018 — After the votes were counted Tuesday night at the county clerk’s office, it was apparent that city voters opted to send not one, but two new faces to represent them on the six-seat Bardstown City Council. Betty Kelley Hart was the […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018 — In a rematch of the 2016 race between the two candidates seeking to represent the 50th District in the state House, freshman legislator Chad McCoy defeated James DeWeese Tuesday night. McCoy won the night with 55.28 percent of the vote, compared […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018 — Nelson County voters went to the polls in record numbers Tuesday as part of what can only be termed a historic mid-term election. Nearly half — 49.36 percent — of the county’s 16,736 registered voters went to the polls to take […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO Community News Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018 — The Nelson County Democratic Woman’s Club is offering voters who need transportation a ride to the polls for the General Election next Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. This is an important election and everyone’s vote counts. The group needs your name, address and contact […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Monday, Oct. 29, 2018 — Bardstown Attorney Jason Floyd has entered the race for a seat on the school board of the Bardstown City Schools. Floyd, 46, a resident of East Brashear, filed his intent to run as a write-in candidate on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018, in the […]
By SYLVIA HORLANDER Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Monday, Oct. 29, 2018 — A crowd of about 55 people attended the annual GOP fall picnic Saturday afternoon in downtown Bardstown at the Farmer’s Market Pavilion. Despite the cool and cloudy weather, local GOP supporters, candidates and their families, and fans of Layla Spring […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018 — While I’m considering adding “witness a 50-percent turnout at Kentucky polls in a midterm election” to my bucket list, reaching north of 40 percent on Nov. 6 in Kentucky would represent a monumental improvement – at least compared to the 2014 midterms, […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018 — All 11 candidates for Bardstown City Council took the stage at the Nelson County Civic Center Thursday evening for a televised candidate debate broadcast on Bardstown Cable TV by PLG TV 13. Due to the number of candidates, there […]
