by ROB CANNING – Murray State President Bob Davies is inviting the university community to be involved in a series of surveys and forums aimed to promote a so-called ‘Marketplace of Ideas.’ Davies sent out a letter last night saying the move for engagement comes in light of the vitriolic rhetoric and divide among issues of…
by Ryland Barton – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security still hasn’t granted an extension for Kentucky to comply with stricter driver’s license and ID standards. The previous extension expired Monday. Transportation cabinet officials had requested the extension last month but still haven’t heard back from DHS. “It’s kind of hard to assume what the federal government’s going to do,” Transportation Cabinet…
by STU JOHNSON (KPR) & STU JOHNSON – A person who’s spent decades keeping his finger on the pulse of Kentucky politics doesn’t anticipate weekend revelations about Donald Trump to greatly erode his support in the Commonwealth. The effect on GOP efforts to take over the Kentucky House appear a little more uncertain. Kentucky Republicans…
by The Associated Press – LOUISVILLE, KY. – After nearly 30 years of conservation efforts, Kentucky’s white-haired goldenrod has been removed from a list of federally protected plants, officials said Friday. The yellow fall-blooming perennial flower was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1988 after nearly disappearing from the Red River Gorge area…
By Lisa Gillespie – Dr. Robert Friedland has been working with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients for more than 30 years. And he still doesn’t know how they developed the diseases. Less than 1 percent of patients have a gene that can lead to either disease. For the rest, it’s a big unknown. But Friedland’s latest research shows that…
by Mary Troyan , @orndorfftroyan – WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul was a renegade political outsider before it was cool. Kentucky’s junior senator arrived on the Washington scene six years ago with a message similar to one Donald Trump used to win the GOP presidential nomination: The country is run by a corrupt cabal and only a non-politician can…
By Michael Gossum | BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) — Andy Beshear spent time in multiple parts of the 13 News viewing area Wednesday. Beshear gave Rotarians a state of the union like speech for his office in Bowling Green. The first term democrat talked about fighting scammers and helping the commonwealth’s senior citizens. Beshear is coming…
by The Associated Press – BEREA, KY. — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has been in Kentucky to announce a program to reduce rural poverty nationwide. The project involves a partnership with 26 community development organizations to give long-term, low-interest financing to local entities for community facilities and services, such as education, health care and infrastructure. The…
By Gil Corsey – LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — They pollute public water, abandon failing sewage plants and stick taxpayers with the bill — and it’s all legal. Kentucky established statutes for a utility company to abandon sewage plants decades ago as the state’s population moved into suburbs and towns where infrastructure and services had not been established. But old…
by Joseph Gerth , @Joe_Gerth – Dan Johnson, the Bullitt County preacher who had photos on his Facebook page depicting President Barack Obama as an ape, defiantly said on Tuesday that he would not follow the wishes of his Republican Party and end his campaign for the state legislature. Instead, standing outside the Bullitt County Courthouse,…
