By RYLAND BARTON Lawyers representing two former legislative staffers have asked an appeals court to prevent lawmakers accused of harassment from intervening in their whistleblower lawsuits. Attorney Shane Sidebottom asked the Kentucky Court of Appeals in a motion filed Wednesday to vacate a decision allowing Republican Reps. Jeff Hoover, Michael Meredith and Jim DeCesare to intervene in the…
By OLIVIA KRAUTH A state advisory council signaled Wednesday that it favored a slight but potentially significant change in charter school oversight. The Charter Schools Advisory Council, which operates under the state department of education, said that it supported a change that, if adopted, would mean that Kentucky school boards might lose approval power over a charter school’s decision…
By DARLA CARTER A group of public health scholars has asked a federal judge to block Kentucky’s planned Medicaid overhaul, citing an estimate that up to 136,000 people could lose coverage in the first year of a new work requirement. The 48 scholars, from universities including Harvard, Yale, Boston and Columbia, filed a friend of the court brief…
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In a story Jan. 23 about a contested Kentucky House election, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Anna Whites represented DJ Johnson. She is the attorney for Jim Glenn. A corrected version of the story is below: Kentucky GOP lawmakers order recount in House election Republican lawmakers in Kentucky order recount…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Gov. Matt Bevin went on TV on Tuesday night to voice his opinion on the confrontation between a group of Kentucky students and a Native American man. On Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News, Bevin blamed the media for the backlash against students. “I find it offensive that people have insulted…
by Phillip M. Bailey, Louisville Courier Journal Former Miss America Heather French Henry has filed paperwork indicating she will run for Kentucky secretary of state this year. French Henry, a Democrat, filed a letter of intent to raise and spend money on the race with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance on Tuesday, according to documents obtained by…
NKyTribune staff The American Federation of Government Employees Council of Prison Locals is set to launch a billboard campaign in an effort to bring an end to the partial government shutdown. The campaign will specifically target U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, calling for him to bring House Resolution 21 to the Senate floor for…
By Ryan Van Velzer An invasive carp species with human-like molars threatens Kentucky’s endangered freshwater mussels. Last week, officials with Kentucky’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources discovered the second location in the country where black carp seem to be naturally reproducing, according to a press release. Fisheries Biologist Andrew Stump said state employees found a juvenile specimen…
BY ANNIE ANDERSEN KENTUCKY COVINGTON– In just days, the videos of a Covington Catholic High School student and a Vietnam veteran at an Indiginous Peoples March have been seen millions of times, and in each version of the incident, more details are revealed. In short, a small group of men calling themselves Hebrew Israelites were at the National Mall yelling at both…
by Mike Snider, USA TODAY The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may call back more furloughed workers to bolster the agency’s inspection of high-risk foods. The FDA last week said it would restart inspections of high-risk foods that had been stopped due to the federal government shutdown, which began Dec. 22. At the time, FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb…