WASHINGTON (AP) – Government officials say about 500,000 fewer Americans had no health insurance the first three months of this year, but that slight dip was not statistically significant from the same period in 2016. Progress reducing the number of uninsured appears to have stalled in the last couple of years, and a separate private…
Presented by: ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — With video games and social media so readily available, it seems to be harder and harder to pull kids away from their devices. Now a new study is giving parents another reason to get their kids off the couch and into the great outdoors. Kids and their toys.…
Using household items such as pipe cleaners, strings and pompoms, Bryan Station High School sophomore Bailey Morgerson and his classmates built models in an advanced placement computer science class last week to understand more about how the internet works. The class is part of Kentucky’s new initiative to offer courses that could produce more information…
Western Kentucky University President Timothy Caboni says shoring up the state’s pension system is more than a political conversation. He says it has real implications for universities. “One of the things I’ve learned in the last few months is how much of a cost driver pensions are for WKU,” Caboni said. “In one of our…
ATLANTA (AP) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has named a business lobbyist and ex-environmental regulator as regional administrator for the office that oversees eight Southeastern states. Former Alabama Department of Environmental Management director Trey Glenn will oversee EPA’s work in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Alabama state records…
A new report shows just how far Appalachia has fallen behind the rest of the country on key health measures such as rates of cancer, heart disease and infant mortality. Researchers say the region’s health gap is growing and they hope the data they’ve compiled will spur new approaches to health care. The 400-page report from the Robert…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WYMT) – In state political news, Senate Democrats have chosen a new minority whip, following the resignation of Senator Julian Carroll. The Lexington Herald Leader reports Sen. Dennis Parrett from Elizabethtown will serve in the position for the next legislative session. Democrats called for Carroll’s resignation last month after a news report that…
Kentucky has received more than $6.5 million in AmeriCorps federal funding for 23 programs with more than 800 total members, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) announced Tuesday.Most of the programs were funded through an annual grant competition by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), a federal agency that engages…
SOUTH UNION – The 2017-18 school year marks the 10th anniversary for The Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science on the campus of Western Kentucky University. The junior and senior high school residential academy was established to allow gifted and highly motivated junior and senior Kentucky high school students to live, study and do research…
Some students at the University of Kentucky will have a chance to manage a portion of the school’s endowment.The program is part of the university’s new Master’s in Science in Finance. Nineteen students are enrolled in the program and the degree is the only one of its kind in the state. Undergraduate degrees in finance exist in Kentucky…
