On this week’s “State of Kentucky” show, we are joined by Secretary of State Michael Adams to discuss his ideas and plans around vote by mail, and by Rep. Charles Booker, candidate for U.S. Senate, talking about his campaign and how they’re working given the coronavirus crisis. We are honored to have both of them with us, and hope you’ll listen!

We welcome Mike Broihier, candidate for U.S. Senate. He talked with us about virtual campaigning, the Yang Gang staffers that have joined his campaign, and his recent hard-hitting ads.

Then we talked with Dustin Pugel of the KY Center for Economic Policy, about the state budgets, ways to get more revenue, and what the General Assembly should be doing in light of the coronavirus crisis.

Thanks to both our guests, and thanks to you for listening!

This week was "candidate filing week", and more people are running as Dems than ever before!

In this week's show, we talk with three people involved in recruiting candidates: KDP executive director Mary Nishimuta, and political activists Anna Whites and Sellus Wilder. We also speak with two of those candidates, Cathy Carter and Tina Bojanowski, on why THEY decided to run. And finally, Bruce Maples has a few thoughts on how this all happened, and the principal it revealed that we all need to remember.

In this week's show, we look at the drastic change to Medicaid that Governor Bevin has proposed. Then, we talk with Al Cross about the waiver lawsuit filed against ... President Trump? Why not Governor Bevin?

We also look at immigrants in Kentucky and the recent shutdown drama around DACA, and we talk with Congressman Yarmuth about why Repubs are so reluctant to do something about Dreamers.

Finally, we update to the number of candidates who have filed to run in 2018, and we ask: Where are the Dems?

In this week's State of Kentucky, we talk over Governor Bevin's budget with Rocky Adkins, the House Democratic leader, and with Matt Wyatt, the chair of the Elizabethtown school board. We then discuss the Medicaid waiver with Emily Beauregard of Kentucky Voice for Health. And in the closing SOK editorial, Bruce uses words etched in stone as a starting point for his thoughts about the budget and the waiver.