By TAYLOR INMAN – Kentucky Congressman James Comer is weighing in on President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord. The Republican congressman said in a statement that the accord was an unfair deal, saying “With this move, President Trump continues to look out for working Kentuckians in coal country.”…
BY: Kirsten Clark , @kirstenlmclark – Gov. Matt Bevin has appointed four non-voting, non-member advisers to the Kentucky Board of Education, according to a press release issued Monday evening. The move comes just days after Bevin signed an executive order restructuring various education-related boards and councils in the Commonwealth. The four new advisers are: Tracey Cusick,…
BY: BY BILL ESTEP [email protected] – The trial was scheduled to begin Monday for the only person who will go before a jury in a case involving alleged massive disability fraud in Eastern Kentucky. Pikeville psychologist Alfred Bradley Adkins was charged with well-known attorney Eric C. Conn and David B. Daugherty, an administrative law judge who heard appeals…
By Ryland Barton – Last week, church leaders from West Louisville and beyond packed into a public school auditorium to hear Gov. Matt Bevin’s ideas for how to stop a surge of violent crime in the neighborhood. The governor asked the audience to form prayer groups to walk the blocks of three West End zip codes. Some…
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is planning a major push in the week ahead to promote a $1 trillion overhaul the nation’s roads and bridges. It comes as his agenda has struggled in Congress and been overshadowed by White House controversies. Mister Trump is expected to speak from the Rose Garden on Monday…
By COLIN DWYER – The state of Ohio has sued five major drug manufacturers for their role in the opioid epidemic. In the lawsuit filed Wednesday, state Attorney General Mike DeWine alleges these five companies “helped unleash a health care crisis that has had far-reaching financial, social, and deadly consequences in the State of Ohio.” Named…
BY: CHARLES A. MASON [email protected] – U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie on Wednesday questioned the legality of the Paris global climate agreement negotiated by President Barack Obama. “I’m not sure it is legal,” Guthrie, R-Bowling Green, said. Obama didn’t bring a treaty back to the U.S. Senate for ratification, he said. Guthrie made the comments about the…
BY: Tom Loftus , @TomLoftus_CJ FRANKFORT, Ky. – An appeal is underway of the property valuation that is part of the controversy around the purchase of Gov. Matt Bevin’s Anchorage home. Bevin said Friday that the appeals process would show that the $1.6 million that Anchorage Place LLC paid for the mansion and 10 surrounding acres is a…
By Alison Kodjak, NPR – The U.S. Army is planning to grant an exclusive license to the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur, Inc. to manufacture and sell a Zika vaccine the Army developed last year. And that hasRebekah Gee, Louisiana’s secretary of health, worried about paying for it. “God forbid we have a Zika outbreak. We’re…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Kentucky’s Attorney General is keeping a close eye on scammers. Andy Beshear launched his ‘Scam Alerts’ Protection Initiative last year. Tuesday, he plans to update residents on how well it has done. He’s expected to lay out the success of its direct messaging program, efforts to return money to Kentuckians, and…
