by JOE CORCORAN – The leader of Bowling Green-based health group says a needle exchange for intravenous drug users is the best way to fight the state’s addiction problems. Dennis Chaney, director of the Barren River District Health Department, is applauding the Bowling Green city commission’s decision Tuesday to approve a needle exchange program. The exchange must…
by Deborah Yetter, @d_yetter – Gov. Matt Bevin said in a press conference he will seek permission from the federal government to reshape the federal-state health program that covers about 1.3 million Kentuckians. Michael Clevenger, CJ HAZARD, Ky. – A sweeping plan to overhaul Kentucky’s Medicaid program met its most forceful opposition yet in a region with some…
by Joseph Gerth, @Joe_Gerth – The head of an organization that pushes for honesty in government said he has filed an ethics complaint against Gov. Matt Bevin after his executive order that will give the governor authority to appoint all members of the Executive Branch Ethics Commission. Richard Beliles, the chairman of Common Cause of Kentucky,…
