Gage Johnson Editor-in-Chief gjohnson17@murraystate.edu On Saturday, Sept. 12, democratic Kentucky Senate candidate Amy McGrath will make her way to the Higgins House in Murray to host a voter registration event from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. geared toward students. The retired U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel will focus on registering people to vote, how to Read More
Dylan Doyle Contributing Writer ddoyle2@murraystate.edu George Orwell’s magnum opus “1984” concerns itself with an authoritarian political party wielding the full power of a surveillance and misinformation state to dominate the general populace with a constant bombardment of intentionally falsified and contradictory versions of reality. A mere two years ago, Donald Trump’s nightmare quotation at the Read More
Kentucky’s U.S. Senate candidates have brought potential presidential contenders to help boost voter turnout in the final week of one of the country’s most closely watched races. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren campaigned with Democratic candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes Tuesday and Hillary Clinton campaigned with her Saturday in Lexington, Ky., and northern Kentucky. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Read More
Student loan debt is an issue Alison Lundergan Grimes plans to face head on if she is voted as the new U.S Senator for Kentucky in next week’s election. Murray State graduates averaged nearly $21,000 in debt in 2012, according to the Project on Student Debt. Grimes met with approximately 50 people Tuesday at the Read More
Murray’s Briggs and Stratton engine company received a rare visitor Wednesday when U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell stopped to talk business. McConnell, the Senate minority leader, visited Briggs and Stratton to talk with the plant management team. Rodney Bohannon, plant manager, said the visit had been planned for a month. Bohannon said the Senator’s visit was Read More
Sen. Mitch McConnell visited Murray State’s Equine Instructional Facility Tuesday to discuss the future of industrial hemp growth in Kentucky. With only six weeks left in the growing season, agricultural researchers are anxious to get hemp seeds planted in the state, but they are struggling with hurdles in place by the Drug Enforcement Administration. If Read More
As someone who will graduate a little more than a month from now with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science, I can tell you that I’ve heard so much about how important it is for students to vote that I now literally cringe at the sales pitch we all get come election time. Of Read More