By LISA AUTRY • 15 HOURS AGO Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes is disputing claims that her office is preparing to remove up to a quarter-million Kentuckians from the voter registration rolls. Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit in 2017 that claimed Kentucky had more registered voters than citizens over the age of 18. The conservative watchdog group…
By STU JOHNSON • 14 HOURS AGO With pension reforms for universities and more than a hundred quasi government agencies now finalized, state lawmakers could turn their attention to the pensions of thousands of other public employees. House Speaker David Osborne said funding pensions will be a key concern when lawmakers take up the budget early next year.…
BY LESLEY CLARK WASHINGTON Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul are proposing legislation to benefit Kentucky’s burgeoning bourbon industry. The Kentucky Republicans’ legislation, offered Wednesday, would make permanent an about-to-expire provision in the tax code that allows for the deduction of interest expenses related to bourbon inventory in the year the expenses…
