Jamie Lucke
Editor in Chief, Kentucky LanternJamie Lucke has more than 40 years of experience as a journalist in four states, most of that time spent learning and writing about her birthplace, Kentucky.
Her editorials for the Lexington Herald-Leader were recognized with the Walker Stone, Sigma Delta Chi and Green Eyeshade awards. Her work also has been honored by the East Kentucky Leadership Foundation, the National Mental Health Association, the Alabama Education Association and the Muscoda (Ala.) Improvement Association.
She is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and mother to an adult daughter. She’s happiest writing pithy headlines and rambling Kentucky woods.
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is joining Democratic state officials in a legal action against President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in U.S. cities and calling on Republican governors to also speak out against what Beshear called “political stunts.” -
As U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie prepares to lead a debate on the future of Medicaid, his home state of Kentucky has more at stake than most. -
A projected dip in state tax collections appears not to have dimmed Republican leaders’ eagerness to again cut Kentucky’s income tax. -
Kentucky’s legislature acted unconstitutionally in 2022 by prohibiting Gov. Andy Beshear from spending public funds to challenge its actions, the state Court of Appeals ruled Friday in a unanimous decision.
