Businesses looking to create healthier workplaces for their employees can learn how to implement tobacco-free policies at a workshop hosted by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky in Louisville Aug. 31. Smoking costs businesses an estimated $5,800 per smoker in extra expenditures each year, including productivity losses and additional health care costs, and puts them…
On August 21, 2017, a solar eclipse will sweep across America, with the point of greatest eclipse being just outside of Hopkinsville, Ky. In this teaser video, we introduce the town and events surround this celestial event. Music by The Pilgrim Project. Alex Slitz [email protected] by JACK BRAMMER, [email protected] – FRANKFORT — Kentucky state resort parks are cashing in…
by Deborah Yetter, @d_yetter – Family drug court restored by Louisville group, private donors Seven years after Jefferson County lost its family drug court because of state budget cuts, a volunteer group has raised enough money to restart the program judges say is desperately needed to help with the rising tide of parents too impaired to care for…
WASHINGTON DC (AP) –Medicaid, a 1960s Great Society pillar long reviled by conservatives, seems to have emerged even stronger after the Republican failure to pass health overhaul legislation. The federal-state health insurance program for low-income Americans hasn’t achieved the status of Social Security and Medicare, considered practically untouchable by politicians, like an electrified “third rail.”…
BY JACK BRAMMER, [email protected] – FRANKFORT — Starting Aug. 15, the state Energy and Environment Cabinet will test employees whom a supervisor suspects of being under the influence of drugs or alcohol while on duty. The cabinet will test the suspected state workers after a review and approval by cabinet management and human resources professionals. Supervisors…
by LISA AUTRY (KPR) – Kentuckians wanting to fly on a plane, enter federal buildings, or visit military posts will need a new driver’s license or identification card in the near future. Unlike most states, the commonwealth is out of compliance with the Real ID Act, a federal law that was passed in 2005 following the September…
by WILL PERKINS [email protected] – GLASGOW – U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie made himself available to community members on Wednesday at the T.J. Health Pavilion Community Center. What began as one-on-one discussion became a group question-and-answer session after a few community members requested such a format and Guthrie agreed to the change. Guthrie then stood in…
by Nick Storm, @NStorm_politics – A Louisville-based Republican-leaning think tank has released their proposal to reform the state’s tax code, as the General Assembly prepares for a promised special session later this year. The Pegasus Institute has published two separate tax reform plans they say will grow Kentucky’s economy. “The tax code is the number one way that a…
by ASSOCIATED PRESS – Two of Kentucky’s most bitter rivals will meet in court twice over the next 10 days in legal battles that could help shape the state’s future in both politics and policy. Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear has sued Republican Gov. Matt Bevin four times over his use of executive orders to reshape…
by DANIEL DESROCHERS, [email protected] – FRANKFORT — Gov. Matt Bevin said Tuesday that the state will handle reform of the tax and pension systems separately, potentially indicating the need for two special legislative sessions this year. “I think we will deal with them one at a time,” Bevin said in an interview Tuesday with WHAS radio host Terry Meiners.…
