Cross | Six months in, how's Bevin doing?
Al Cross | Columnist
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Come Wednesday, the governorship of Kentucky will have spent six months in the hands of a man who is the sharpest departure from past practice in perhaps a century, Republican businessman Matt Bevin. How’s he doing?
The end of the legislative session in April and his appearance at a Commerce Lexington luncheon Friday suggests he has consolidated and strengthened his governing position, and is making progress at improving his political position, which could be critical as his party tries to take over the state House this fall.
That might seem off base to readers who have heard about the national Morning Consult poll that showed Bevin to be one of the least popular governors in America, with a job rating of 33 percent. House Democrats may have had similar numbers near the end of the session, as they held fast to their higher-education budget and cast Bevin as an enemy of public education in general.
But that poll was taken over four months, January to April, making it a time exposure rather than a snapshot. Bevin won a low-turnout election in November, so it’s plausible to think th
Cross | Vetting of Tilley shows Bevin's approach
Al Cross | The Courier-Journal
“By their fruits you will know them.” – Jesus, Sermon on the Mount, Matthew (World English Bible)
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Matt Bevin’s administration is less than a week old, so it has produced no fruits. But the new governor has planted some seeds that give clues about where he will take the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
The clues are more important than usual, because we may know less about Matthew Griswold Bevin than about anyone who has been elected governor since Republican Simeon Willis rose from relative obscurity in , when public attention was focused on World War II. Bevin was the surprise winner of the GOP primary, and was elected at a time when Donald Trump was dominating political talk and news media were less able than before to examine candidates’ backgrounds.
Bevin’s 32½-minute inaugural address, delivered with no prepared text Tuesday, repeated most of his conservative campaign themes: changing pensions and the Medicaid expansion, modernizing and simplifying the tax code, offering “school choice,” doing battle with federal regulators and changing the state’s political cult
Matt Bevin Struggles to Stand Out Without Mitch McConnell as Foil
ERLANGER, Kentucky—As Matt Bevin addressed a hotel ballroom full of voters gathered to hear from Republican gubernatorial candidates last week, a ceiling light dislodged just shy of where Bevin's primary opponents sat watching. The light dangled ominously for a moment, threatening to fall, but Bevin didn't miss a beat.
"See? Even the people higher than us agree," Bevin ad-libbed, his warm, breezy response eliciting the biggest laugh of the two-hour event. "I'm not saying that's a sign or anything."
The performance highlighted Bevin's ample charisma, a characteristic that wonky business forums don't always draw out of candidates. Trey Grayson, the head of the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, which put on the event, said afterward that he thought Bevin's showing was one of his best yet. "He's funny, he's likable," said Grayson, a former Republican officeholder who moderated the forum. "If you sat there and didn't really know anything about the four of them, you would be impressed with him."
Yet Kentuckians already know plenty about Bevin, much of it unflattering. The businessman drew a sharp contrast with
Kentucky Hall of Fame journalist retires from UK, leaving a legacy of good journalism for rural folks and beyond
After almost 20 years advocating for rural and community journalism in the College of Communication and Information, Al Cross is leaving the University of Kentucky as the Director Emeritus of the Institute for Rural Journalism (IRJ). Cross, who also served as an extension professor for the School of Journalism and Media, officially retires July
Cross may be handing in his UK office keys, but he won’t be stepping away from journalism altogether. After all, as Cross told a colleague recently, “there is no such thing as a former journalist.”
Cross’ page CV doesn’t do justice to his achievements. He graduated from Western Kentucky University and has covered every Kentucky legislative session since Right out of college, Cross edited and managed weekly newspapers in Monticello, Russellville and Leitchfield.
He then became a reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal for 26 years, including more than 15 years as a political writer (). In , he shared a Pulitzer Prize with the Courier-Journal staff, and from , he was national president of the Society of
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