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Bill Straub
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"I'm a tired hack with a doubtful future'' -- Philip Marlowe. Former White House and political correspondent for Scripps Howard, now a columnist for the Northern Kentucky Tribune. A disciple of Walter Reuther. An original Mets fan. Bill Evans devotee.
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My latest for the Northern Kentucky Tribune: Trump's ugly assault on Massie and his marriage shows why he is unfit for office.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: How much more of 'ugly nation' status can we possibly take? - NKyTribune
To say that Rep. Thomas Harold Massie is exasperating is undisputable. He is the rare politician who actually seems to believe what he says, something that might usually be considered a positive attri...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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My latest for the Northern Kentucky Tribune: Trump pardons a guy helping him make money. So where's Jamie Comer?

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Hypocrisy, double-standards, and outright law-bending - measured in crypto - NKyTribune
It’s fair to assume that very few folks in Ludlow or Silver Grove have ever heard of a cryptocurrency kingpin named Changpeng Zhao, who is worth a whole lotta dough and happens to have pleaded guilty ...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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My take on the death at 88 of former Kentucky Gov. Martha Layne Collins.

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Up close, Martha Layne Collins' challenges and successes as state's first (and only) woman governor - NKyTribune
By Bill Straub NKyTribune reporter WASHINGTON – Martha Layne Collins, Kentucky’s first and, thus far, only woman governor who died early Saturday morning at age 88, was the most reticent politician I ...
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November 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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My latest for the Northern Kentucky Tribune: 3 KY lawmakers driving Trump nuts. It's a short drive.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Rand Paul shows backbone in recent efforts to kill Trump's damaging tariff policy - NKyTribune
The human farce, aka President-cum-Dictator Donald J. Trump, offers up the truth so infrequently that anything passing for accuracy from his turgid mouth should lead to the declaration of a national h...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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My latest for the Northern Kentucky Tribune: How do you run a country when you deplore half of the population?

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Opinion - Bill Straub: How can Americans stand with leader who considers many of them 'the enemy' - NKyTribune
On March 4, 1865, just 36 days before the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, effectively ending the Civil War he sought to avoid, Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural, vowing to welcome th...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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My latest for NKY Trib: Rural hospitals are in big trouble and KY GOP congressmen are letting it happen.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Johnson's 'sleight of hand' in Medicaid funding fight just doesn't hold muster - NKyTribune
House Speaker Mike Johnson, one of those devout Christians who believes it’s okay to lie in service to President-cum-Dictator Donald Trump, wants you to believe he’s trying desperately to throw a life...
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October 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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My latest for the Northern Kentucky Tribune: Lies, damn lies and Donald Trump.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: As shutdown drags on, GOP refuses to let truth get in the way of good story - NKyTribune
Let’s talk about lying of the political kind. Fabrications, if you’re being fancy, have long held a prominent role in the American story, save, of course, for George Washington who legendarily confess...
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October 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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My latest for NKY Tribune: Republicans all for a government shutdown when it's on their terms.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Washington's 'blame game' heats up with U.S. government 'Closed 'Til Further Notice’ - NKyTribune
Rep. Jamie Comer has a well-earned reputation for being a nitwit. Having embarrassed himself directing a never-ending series of worthless, politically-charged probes as chair of the House Oversight an...
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October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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My latest for the Northern Kentucky Tribune: Massie uses Epstein scandal to shake things up.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Never missing an opportunity to shake things up, Massie's Epstein mission plods on - NKyTribune
Whatever you might think of him, it’s indisputable that Rep. Thomas Massie possesses a unique talent for shaking things up. And if events go according to Hoyle over the next few days, his latest bit o...
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September 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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My latest for the Northern Kentucky Tribune: Trump waves the bloody shirt to seize more power.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Violence won't solve our country's differences, neither will silencing healthy debate - NKyTribune
The term “waving the bloody shirt’’ has its origin in the tense, post-Civil War Reconstruction era, used to denounce the fiery rhetoric of those citing the gore of battles won to wreak vengeance upon ...
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September 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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My latest for the NKY Tribune: The Fall of the American Empire, brought to you by John Roberts and the justices.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire - a story already being written - NKyTribune
Decades from now, an anonymous historian will dig through the rubble while researching his/her magnum opus, The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, and discover that the unfortunate collapse of a on...
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September 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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My latest for the NKY Trib: The CDC crumbles under RF Kennedy Jr's idiocy and Rand Paul gives it a standing O.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: As nation's public health system crumbles, Kennedy, Paul spew nonsense - NKyTribune
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the nation’s top public health agency, is crumbling like the walls of Jericho under the astonishingly inept leadership of Health and Human Services Secr...
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September 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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My latest for the Northern Kentucky Tribune: Could the tenure of Hal Rogers finally be up?

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Is it really possible? Hal Rogers, 87, may face a real race for his long-held seat? - NKyTribune
The race to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell next year is understandably grabbing the headlines both statewide and nationally, but another burgeoning campaign in the Commonwealth’s southeastern c...
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August 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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My latest for the NKY Trib: Madison said, “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. No kidding, Jimmy.
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Opinion - Bill Straub: As Trump deploys military in Washington, the usual suspects line up in praise - NKyTribune
President James Madison, the father of the Constitution, was opposed to the creation of a standing army. “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to lib...
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August 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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My latest for the Northern Kentucky Tribune: Yet again, Kim Davis hides her bigotry behind the cloak of Jesus.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Erstwhile County Clerk Kim Davis may finally have bigoted prayers answered - NKyTribune
Kim Davis, once again hiding behind the cloak of Jesus, is stepping up from the bush leagues of bigotry to the majors, seeking to unsettle the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans, all because ...
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August 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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My latest for the Northern Kentucky Tribune: This time the threat to democracy is an inside job.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Recent SCOTUS rulings lay waste to decades of precedent, along with American identity - NKyTribune
The United States of America has consistently proven since its founding 249 years ago that it is, if nothing else, a resilient nation capable of ultimately persevering despite an uncanny capacity for ...
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August 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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My latest for the Northern Kentucky Tribune: Trump demolishes the EPA and Andy jumps in on the fun.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Bucking climate data, Barr joins Trump, Zeldin touting debunked benefits of coal - NKyTribune
It appears there is no disaster seeping from the addled mind of President-cum-Dictator Donald J. Trump that our boy Andy Barr can’t try to make worse. Trump toady Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the ...
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August 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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My latest for the Northern Kentucky Tribune: Andy Beshear steps up.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Beshear remains noncommittal, but recent appearances indicate higher ambitions - NKyTribune
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has successfully navigated his way through the first circle of the inferno known as the Democratic presidential primary process – at least no one was left laughing hysterica...
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July 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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My latest for the NKY Tribune: Ol' Andy, ever helpful, wants to uncitizen a whole lotta folks.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Barr's embrace of birthright citizenship vendetta unveils newfound fealty to Trump - NKyTribune
President-cum-Dictator Donald J. Trump’s self-appointed handmaiden, Rep. Andy Barr, being perennially sensitive to the whims of his master, has officially joined the campaign to eject as many brown pe...
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July 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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My latest for the Northern Kentucky Tribune: They're both right!

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Trump puts target on Massie - and Massie is not intimidated - NKyTribune
Some years ago, back in the days of black-and-white television, there ran a 30-second commercial depicting an argument between two perky, young blondes, perhaps twins, with one stridently asserting, “...
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July 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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My latest for the NKY Tribune: A peek at McConnell's dismissive attitude toward his constituents.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: McConnell shows contempt for his own voters with cavalier response to Medicaid cuts - NKyTribune
Sen. Mitch McConnell, heading for the last round-up in his seemingly endless upper chamber tenure, is showing his true colors. This time it’s his dismissive attitude toward many of the voters who kept...
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June 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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My latest for NKY Trib: Hospitals may close, folks will lose coverage, but that's okay with the KY Hospiyal Assn.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Big Beautiful Bill does not improve care for 1.3M Kyians on Medicaid - NKyTribune
The Kentucky Hospital Association, insists it is “dedicated to sustaining and improving the health status of the citizens of Kentucky.” Yet it somehow wants you suckers to believe that cutting federal...
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June 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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My latest for the NKY Tribune: Trump, thinking he's George Patton, invades California.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Trump's use of National Guard, Marines in LA is far from 'American exceptionalism' - NKyTribune
WASHINGTON – From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Santa Monica, the Marine Corp is now fighting President-cum-Dictator Donald J. Trump’s battles political and otherwise, in the air, on land an...
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June 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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My latest for the Northern Kentucky Tribune: Giving the devils their due.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Thomas Massie, Rand Paul prove strange bedfellows in 'Big Beautiful Bill' row - NKyTribune
With apologies to the late, great James Agee, let us now praise infamous men. There’s nothing much for Kentuckians to brag about with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Bowling Green, and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Somewhe...
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June 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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My latest for the Northern Kentucky Tribune: One Massive Ugly Bill.

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Opinion - Bill Straub: Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' will do anything but 'Make America Great Again' - NKyTribune
Rep. Andy Barr has, predictably, gone all Sponge Bob Square Pants happy, happy joy, joy over House passage of the bunco game masquerading as the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that will, inevitably, carry d...
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May 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM