LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 2, 2017) — As Kentucky lawmakers try to decide how to deal with the commonwealth’s pension problem, a widely recognized scholar on the subject of state and local pension systems will be speaking at University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics on Wednesday, Oct. 18. Joshua D. Rauh’s research on…
CORBIN — On Wednesday, the Southeast/South-Central Educational Cooperative hosted its first “You’re Not Alone” conference in Corbin. Every spring the SESC hosts several transition fairs across its region in order to accommodate all 29 high schools it serves. During last year’s spring transition fairs the educational consultants realized the students in attendance with moderate and…
University of Louisville’s interim president delivered some good news today: The accreditation group that put the university on probation last December says it is now in compliance with virtually all of its rules. Interim President Greg Postel said a draft report from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools says U of L only has…
FRANKFORT, KY.- Kentucky’s plan to build one of the country’s largest publicly owned broadband networks was touted as a cornerstone of the effort to save the Appalachian economy by bringing high-speed internet to some of the poorest counties in America. It was supposed to take a year to finish, but three years later only a fraction…
PADUCAH, KY— All week, local leaders have shared our area’s arts and culture with representatives from 15 countries. On Wednesday, the group toured the Carson Center. The international delegates took a behind-the-scenes look at how the center operates. One of them, Ahmed Almatar, is a mayor’s consultant from Al-Ahsa, another UNESCO Creative City in Saudi…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – The Louisville Arena Authority plans to move forward with the scheduled refinancing of the KFC Yum! Center’s debt, even as the building’s main tenant faces an uncertain future.University of Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino was suspended Wednesday, a day after federal criminal complaints alleged that at least two U of…
A federal judge has blocked a Kentucky law requiring a doctor performing an abortion to conduct an ultrasound. The General Assembly approved the law in January. It also requires a doctor to show and describe an ultrasound to a patient and to play audio of the fetal heartbeat. The decision by U.S. District Court Judge…
This week on Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine the host talks with Dr. Suzanne Segerstrom, professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Segerstrom has recently been awarded a National Institute on Aging grant to study the effects of stress on the immune system in older adults. The answers could hold hope for individuals…
Gov. Matt Bevin and Attorney General Andy Beshear were back in court on Wednesday, this time over a challenge to the governor’s reorganization of several education boards this summer. Beshear argues that the governor illegally suspended laws passed by the legislature when he issued an executive order adding four non-voting advisors to the Kentucky Board…
FRANKFORT- Kentucky prosecutors warned the Bevin Administration this week that 17.4 percent cuts to their budgets would force them to either close their offices and lay off hundreds of employees by March 1 or cut their employees’ salaries by as much as 75 percent beginning Jan. 1. “Drastic measures such as these would result in systemic…