By JOE PALCA Originally published on November 9, 2020 8:30 am Pfizer’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine appears to be working. The vaccine was found to be more than 90% effective, according to clinical results released by the company Monday. That news comes from an interim analysis of a study involving 43,538 volunteers, 42% of whom had “diverse…
By Ryan Van Velzer In the first case of its kind, an eastern Kentucky utility has asked regulators to diminish the value of the renewable energy that rooftop solar customers add to the electric grid. The outcome will set precedent in Kentucky and chart the course for the future of small-scale solar in a state that…
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Gov. Andy Beshear on Friday made the following appointments to Kentucky boards and commissions: Beshear appointed Mohamed Saad as a member of the Board of Respiratory Care. Mohamad Saad of Prospect is a physician at the University of Louisville. He replaces James McCormick, whose term has expired. Dr. Saad shall serve for a…
By John Boyle Gov. Andy Beshear has extended Kentucky’s mask mandate another 30 days amid a weeks-long surge in COVID-19 cases throughout the state. Beshear announced 1,635 new cases Wednesday, bringing Kentucky’s total to more than 113,000. Though the total did not break any records for daily cases – something that has happened repeatedly over the…
By Eleanor Klibanoff Ryland Barton About a year ago, Andy Beshear stood on stage at the C2 event space in downtown Louisville, declaring victory for his gubernatorial campaign. “Tonight, voters in Kentucky sent a message loud and clear for everyone to hear,” Beshear said. “It’s a message that says our elections don’t have to be about…
BY EILEEN STREET KENTUCKY LOUISVILLE, Ky. — On Wednesday, Governor Andy Beshear issued an executive order renewing the state’s mask mandate requiring Kentuckians to wear masks in public for 30 days. Under Kentucky law, the governor has broad powers during states of emergency, such as issuing executive orders, and Beshear has exercised this power often during the pandemic. However, that power could…
by Joe Sonka Louisville Courier Journal Kentucky Republicans expanded their dominant 62-seat supermajority in the state House on Tuesday, flipping at least eight seats currently occupied by Democrats and defending several targeted incumbents. By Wednesday morning, Republicans had picked up at least eight of these seats from Democrats and led in five more races in Democratic-held districts…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The Jefferson County Public Schools tax increase question on the ballot delayed election results in Louisville on Tuesday night, election officials said. Nore Ghibaudy, spokesperson for the Jefferson County Board of Elections, said the JCPS tax hike on the ballot slowed the result tallies Tuesday. A judge threw out a petition…
By Dalton York, WKMS Unofficial general election results show Kentucky voters rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to raise experience requirements and term lengths for some judicial officials. Under the current version of the state constitution, district court judges serve four-year terms and an attorney must hold Kentucky licensure for two years before seeking a district court judgeship. Constitutional…
By JOSH JAMES Anti-electioneering laws won’t necessarily keep people seeking to influence voters away from Kentuckians waiting in long lines at the polls. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron says the state’s 100-foot ban on electioneering at the polls starts at the polling location entrance — not where the line ends. The opinion comes in response to…
