by Phillip M. Bailey and Morgan Watkins, @morganwatkins26 – Ky Rep. Kevin Bratcher sits down with The Courier-Journal’s Phillip M. Bailey and Morgan Watkins to discuss his bill to make any crime against a law enforcement a hate crime. Scott Utterback/The CJ It was a low-key shift on a warm July night until Louisville Metro Police Officer DeAris Hoard got…
by Tom Loftus, @TomLoftus_CJ – Hillary Clinton visits the Union of Carpenters and Millwrights Training Center in Louisville ahead of Tuesday’s presidential primary. Sam Upshaw Jr./The CJ FRANKFORT, Ky. – A Hillary Clinton political committee transferred $793,000 to the Kentucky Democratic Party in July – a huge and apparently sorely needed infusion of cash for Kentucky Democrats, who…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – The Kentucky Department of Education is moving after spending 44 years at its current location at the Capital Plaza Tower in downtown Frankfort. The agency is relocating to the 300 Building, a five-story office space along Sower Boulevard, off the East-West Connector, in Frankfort. Kentucky Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt says the new…
BY JOHN CHEVES, [email protected] – FRANKFORT Gov. Matt Bevin wants able-bodied adults to volunteer in their communities in exchange for their Medicaid benefits. But an organization representing nearly 600 of the state’s nonprofit groups says its members aren’t ready to welcome an influx of tens of thousands of people who would need training, supervision and — in…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Kentucky’s two highest elected officials have finished a showdown in the state Supreme Court that could offer a preview of the 2019 governor’s race. Republican Gov. Matt Bevin and Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear are embroiled in a dispute over funding for the state’s public colleges and universities. Bevin cut allotments to…
by Justin Sayers, @_JustinSayers – Is Kentucky among the least free states in the nation? One website seems to thinks so. Freedom in the 50 States, which is owned by Washington D.C.-based libertarian think tank the Cato Institute, ranked Kentucky 41st on its overall list of states with the most freedom. New Hampshire was first, Indiana was…
by Tom Loftus, @TomLoftus_CJ – FRANKFORT, Ky. – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet recently paid $625,000 in damages to a highway contractor because the cabinet had not secured the land for a road project before a deadline to start construction that was set in a contract awarded by the Beshear administration. Moreover, the state has agreed to pay…
by JOHN NULL – Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles CREDIT RYAN QUARLES / FACEBOOK Kentucky agriculture commissioner Ryan Quarles has joined Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s agricultural advisory committee. Quarles, elected last year, is one of several state agriculture commissioners on the advisory board, which has more than 60 members. The board also includes members varying from…
by Rick Howlett – Kentucky’s attorney general is suing health care and pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson for allegedly failing to disclose the potential risks associated with one of its surgical products. Beshear’s office has filed a civil suit against the company and its medical supply unit, Ethicon for what it says was deceptive marketing of a vaginal mesh…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Kentucky Republicans are targeting the top two Democratic leaders in the state House of Representatives with a pair of radio ads. The Republican Party of Kentucky began airing radio ads on Tuesday in the districts of House Speaker Greg Stumbo and Majority Floor Leader Rocky Adkins. The Kentucky House is the last…
