It appears that local legislators are not as high on the idea of medicinal marijuana as Kentucky’s Secretary of State. Alison Lundergan Grimes has recently made a push to legalize marijuana for the purposes of alleviating various health conditions, seeking to have it given the green light by next year. According to an article published…
Berea mayor Steve Connelly and representatives from Congressman Andy Barr’s office and Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office were among the dozens of people who gathered Wednesday morning to celebrate a recent expansion at Novelis, an aluminum recycling company in Berea. Despite the cold, attendees gathered outside the Berea plant as company representatives spoke of the company’s…
FRANKFORT – Kentucky’s ethics laws, passed in 2014, which states a member of the legislature can take nothing of value from a lobbyist, has been struck down as unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman, who ruled in June 2017 that the laws were too vague to be enforced and violated lobbyists’ freedom of speech, issued a…
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…