The most-quoted literacy statistic in America was withdrawn by its own publisher. It's still on posters today. What that means for a county that lost its paper.
KY Policy 2026: Civic Intelligence from the Ground Up
A structured civic intelligence initiative tracking federal, state, and local power in Kentucky's 2026 cycle — with Pendleton County as the methodological ground. Non-partisan in method. Non-neutral in analysis. Tracking power is accuracy.
The County Clerk's Office in Falmouth
The county clerk is now a federal voter integrity endpoint. Montana has the first real legal theory against Citizens United in fifteen years. The V-Dem Institute just recorded democracy's largest single-year decline since 1789. The window is now.
I Came Back as Someone Who Could See It
I left "the southern side of Northern Kentucky" for fifteen years. I came back having navigated sobriety, an HIV diagnosis, and an emerging spiritual practice — and found the argument for my book living in the data and drama of home.