BY MICHON LINDSTROM KENTUCKY OWENSBORO – The Daviess County Board of Elections is proposing to conduct the recount of the 13th House District on February 2nd. The board believes they can do the recount in one day, but they will begin preparing for the recount on January 31st. The recount will include a hand count of all…
BY MICHON LINDSTROM KENTUCKY Gov. Matt Bevin’s running mate Sen. Ralph Alvarado says he envisions he’ll play a crucial role between the governor’s office and the General Assembly. The relationship between the governor and the legislature at times seems strained–despite the House, Senate and Executive Branch being under one party control. Alvarado thinks if he is elected…
By SHELBY FRYE The Todd County Health Department Director said the county should consider a needle exchange program in order to combat opioid-related illness and death in the area. Director Jen Harris said Todd County has been watching and preparing for the Kentucky opioid crisis. She said an exchange program would help to prevent HIV and…
By WKMS STAFF Republican U.S. Representative James Comer won’t run for governor in 2019, according to a statement issued Sunday night. Comer’s statement comes as he spends time with his father, who is recovering from a stroke. Comer stated that he has,”…zero desire to run against a multi-millionaire incumbent Governor in a Primary, regardless of how…
By JOE SONKA The Republican chair of the House Health and Family Services Committee is speaking out against a billproposed by Senate Majority Floor Leader Damon Thayer, which would force local health departments with syringe exchanges to operate with a one-for-one model — only dispensing one clean needle for each used needle returned by a patient. Rep. Kim…
By OLIVIA KRAUTH The Kentucky Department of Education wants to attract more diverse teachers into the field with a new renewable loan forgiveness program. Kentucky residents enrolled in one of the state public universities’ education programs beginning this semester are eligible to apply, department and higher education officials said in a Thursday afternoon announcement. A $1…
by Mandy McLaren, Louisville Courier Journal Less than a month on the job with Jefferson County Public Schools, Jasmine Puckett has already tackled student hunger, hygiene and safety. She’s helped a family at Chenoweth Elementary School secure enough food to make it through a difficult weekend. She’s worked with girls at Dunn Elementary to make sense…
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…