Wade Harris

6 days ago | kentuckyliving.com | Wade Harris

IT WOULD BE PERFECTLY UNDERSTANDABLE if Tony Campbell had double checked the address when he made his way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on April 8. The East Kentucky Power Cooperative president and CEO had mailed eight letters to the White House over the last four years, but only received confirmation that one had arrived. Campbell implored previous President Joe Biden to reconsider energy policies that were deteriorating the reliability of America’s power grid and jacking up electric rates.

1 week ago | kentuckyliving.com | Wade Harris |Kentucky Living

April 17, 2025 5 min read Explore The 2025 Best in Kentucky finalists are here! Voting will begin on May 1. Until then, learn about each nominee below and get ready to vote for your favorite.

1 week ago | kentuckyliving.com | Wade Harris |Kentucky Living

PACK A BAG. Grab a snack. Pick up those special passports. You’re going to need them for traveling between the Fairy Forest of Yew Dell Botanical Gardens and the Forest Giants of Bernheim, slipping over the border into ancient America at Manchester’s Stone of Witness: Red Bird Petroglyph and crossing into the paranormal realm at Harlan’s Sassy Trash, an antiques trove crowded not only with vintage goodies—but ghosts, too.

1 week ago | kentuckyliving.com | Wade Harris

WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF KENTUCKY, a lot of fairly standard images come to mind. Horses and bourbon. Bluegrass and basketball. KFC and Abraham Lincoln. But Kentucky’s history is much more eclectic than that, harboring interesting oddities and hard-to-believe happenings that have intrigued both citizens and nonresidents for centuries. Kurt Gohde, art professor at Transylvania University, realized just how deep Kentucky’s peculiar roots are when he began working at the university nearly three decades ago.

1 week ago | kentuckyliving.com | Wade Harris |Kentucky Living

KET Director of Public Affairs and Moderator Renee Shaw has been inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame. Calling her “Kentucky’s leading TV news journalist,” the organization honored her during a ceremony for the class of 2025.  As the host of Kentucky Edition, Kentucky Tonight and various election programs, Shaw has established herself as a trusted voice in statewide public affairs coverage.