Kentucky GOP House members are asking Republican Gov. Matt Bevin not to call a special legislative session on pension reform before the end of the year. The Courier Journal reports that a large majority of House Republicans sent a letter making the request Wednesday. House Speaker Pro Tem David Osborne said the letter expressed the lawmakers’…
Ashley Judd is featured on the cover of Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for her role in the #MeToo movement. The actress, activist and University of Kentucky graduate is joined on the cover by software engineer Susan Fowler, lobbyist Adama Iwu, singer Taylor Swift and strawberry picker Isabel Pascual. The cover features the headline The Silence Breakers: the…
After slipping a bit in September, the housing market in Kentucky picked up in October following the national trend for the month. The number of homes sold in October rose 1.8 percent to 4,421 sold versus 4,342 sold in 2016. For the year, the number of homes sold jumped to 45,236, up from 43,905 in…
FRANKFORT — Appearing on Leland Conway’s News Radio 630 WLAP program Tuesday morning, Gov. Matt Bevin continued to call for the resignation of any lawmaker party to a confidential settlement of sexual harassment claims and, said once again, he still plans to call a special session on pension reform. His comments come one day after…
Lexington Mayor Jim Gray is seeking the Democratic nomination in the 6th Congressional District, launching his campaign in several counties throughout the central Kentucky district on Tuesday. He enters a primary field with Amy McGrath, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marines; Reggie Thomas, a state senator from Lexington; and perennial candidate Geoff Young.…
CAVE CITY — The film industry is important to Kentucky because of the economic impact it has on individual communities, as well as the entire state. Jay Hall, executive director of the Kentucky Office of Film and Development, spoke about the importance of the film industry during the Caveland Marketing Association’s Legislative Luncheon on Monday…
Kentucky has a pension crisis; the amount of money the commonwealth expects to owe for state employees’ and teachers’ retirement outweighs the amount of money coming in. Gov. Matt Bevin has proposed a pension fix, but it’s been met with outrage by many of the state employees that would be affected. Meanwhile, a special session to address…
The city of Louisville has paid more than $566,000 to nine law firms to fight Kerry Porter’s claim for compensation for the 14 years spent behind bars for a murder he did not commit. Porter was exonerated in 2011 by former Commonwealth’s Attorney Dave Stengel for the 1996 killing of truck driver Tyrone Camp. In…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Kentucky’s public schools are becoming less white, but black students still lag behind their white peers in reading and math proficiency according to an Associated Press analysis of more than a decade’s worth of data from the National Center for Education Statistics. In 2000, 68 percent of Kentucky’s public schools were…
A federal judge has denied a request to set aside the conviction of former Morgan County Judge-Executive Tim Conley in a corruption case. U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove rejected Conley’s argument that a U.S. Supreme Court decision returned after Conley was sentenced invalidated the conviction. Van Tatenhove also declined to issue a certificate…