Senate budget vote on tap for this week

 Members of the Kentucky Senate are expected to vote this week on a two year budget.  A vote before the Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee could come as early as Tuesday.  Senate consideration of pension reforms have stalled. WEKU’S Stu Johnson asked Senate Majority Floor Leader Damon Thayer if the biennial budget document could include…

Attorney General Sessions in Lexington Thursday

LEXINGTON– Attorney General Jeff Sessions will travel to Lexington Thursday to meet with families of overdose victims and deliver remarks on the opioid epidemic. Sessions will hold a roundtable with families of victims, before delivering a speech at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky. Session was in Louisville on January 30 delivering…

32 states compensate people who are wrongfully convicted. Kentucky isn’t one of them.

Thirty-two states, including some known for being tough on crime, provide compensation by statute to people who were wrongfully incarcerated. Kentucky is not among them. A proposal to provide such relief in Kentucky failed to get out of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2001 when it was proposed by state Sen. General Neal, D-Louisville. Then-Chairman Robert Stivers,…