The Andrew Cooperrider Show

Kentucky is losing farmland—and Agriculture Commissioner Jonathan Shell says the problem has reached an emergency level nationally.I sat down with Commissioner Shell to discuss the growing loss of farmland, including the impact of data centers and solar farms, the recent Fair Board showdown with Beshear, and how recent federal actions have affected Kentucky’s farming community—both good and bad.

Millions in contracts were issued this month, including a few to nonprofit organizations with questionable expenses.

Beshear has become not just a hindrance but is actively sabotaging the Legislature’s plans to get Kentucky to a 0% income tax.This has manifested itself in state policies and insane decisions like destroying whole fraud departments out of welfare programs under the guise of “cutting costs.” I go into just what the Legislature needs to do in order to fight this.The Kentucky Association of School Superintendents has listed regulating homeschoolers as its number two priority this year in lobbying the Legislature.Perhaps they should worry about getting their own education institutions in order before they start trying to regulate away one of the few quality schooling options left to most families.

A WKYT investigation leads to questions as it discovers the Lexington FLOCK system is searched 1 million times a month, and 99% of those searches are by outside agencies.I’ll discuss what LPD’s excuses were and why they don’t hold water. I’ll also ask why Lexington should keep footing the bill for all these other agencies.Also, it’s school taxing season, which means it’s time to argue about whether a tax increase is actually a tax increase.

In Kentucky's 6th Congressional District, Republicans have historically won the district with over 60% of the vote. The last close election was in 2018, and since then, the district has been redistricted to be more friendly to Republicans.Despite this, albeit slightly flawed, polling has the race between Republican Dr. Ralph Alvarado and Democrat Zach Dembo as neck and neck.I'll talk about some of the issues at play in the election and how Republican leadership in the state has to learn from their struggles, or it's going to keep getting worse.