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…
BY EVA MCKEND KENTUCKY PUBLISHED 4:28 PM ET JUL. 19, 2019 WASHINGTON, DC – Finding an affordable place to live can be tremendously difficult for low-Income families. According to research from the Brookings Institution, poor families in at least ten metro areas they surveyed shell out more than 60% of their income on housing. The Department of Housing defines…
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The steel frame of Transylvania University’s new Campus Center will soon rise from the construction site along North Broadway. Work is proceeding on schedule for a fall 2020 opening. So far, workers have been focused on the lower level of the $30-million facility. Footings — which will help support the structure —…
Associated Press Published 2:56 p.m. ET July 23, 2019 | Updated 6:10 p.m. ET July 23, 2019 FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — While Kentucky lawmakers worked Tuesday on a pension-relief bill he wants them to pass, Gov. Matt Bevin was in Colorado for a partisan event that he says let him talk trade issues with the…
By Becca Schimmel The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has been granted another extension on compliance with the REAL ID Act. This will allow current state driver’s licenses to be used for air travel until October 2020. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has determined that the Commonwealth is fully compliant with the new ID regulations.…
By Liz Schlemmer Kentucky has been funding health benefits for retired teachers for decades. But this year for the first time, that payment was dependent on a budget surplus. This move — to cut the health insurance funding from the state’s biennial budget and instead pay it only in the event the state made…
By The Lane Report MURRAY, Ky. — The Murray State University Center for Telecommunications Systems Management is transforming into the Center for Computer and Information Technology — its award-winning Program of Distinction — to reflect its modern approach to computer education. “As technology has evolved and the boundaries between specific CIT industries have started…
By BECCA SCHIMMEL – Republican Congressman Brett Guthrie spoke about immigration, diversity and military relations with Iran while in Bowling Green on Friday. He said the negative rhetoric about immigration needs to stop on both sides of the aisle. The Congressman sees it as an impediment to diversifying the Republican party. Guthrie’s district includes Bowling…
by Krystle Callais – FANCY FARM, KY — The speaking order has been updated for the upcoming Fancy Farm picnic. Organizers are only waiting for three politicians to confirm if they are coming to the political event this year. They are U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senator Rand Paul, and Kentucky Secretary of…
