by Grace Schneider, Louisville Courier Journal – The YMCA and other nonprofits are warning donors and members that they’ll need to charge sales taxes after July 1, but questions still abound. Shannon Hall If you’re a member at the Jewish Community Centeror a Kentucky-based YMCA, if you love supporting your favorite causes with generous bids at charity auctions,…
by Nick Storm – Kentucky is just weeks away from implementing a first of its kind work requirement for some Medicaid recipients in the Commonwealth, and Cabinet for Health and Family Services Secretary Adam Meier, hopes the nation witnesses a smart and thoughtful implementation of the Kentucky HEALTH plan. The plan is a first of its…
by TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer – CVS Health will make prescription deliveries nationwide to accommodate the heightened expectations of convenience from consumers. The nation’s second-largest drugstore chain says it also will make home deliveries of other items, like allergy medicines, vitamins or household products. The service will cost $4.99 for deliveries made in one…
by Thomas Novelly, Louisville Courier Journal – The Kentucky Republican Party blasted Democrats to return donations from disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein but has yet to deliver on its own promise to donate $10,000 received from controversial casino mogul Steve Wynn. Kentucky GOP spokesman Tres Watson told the Courier Journal on Tuesday that the party is working on donating the Wynn money,…
by JACK BRAMMER, jbrammer@herald-leader.com – For the fourth time this month, anti-poverty demonstrators tried to enter the Kentucky Capitol Monday but were told by police that only two members could enter at a time. Kentucky is the only state in the country that has denied Poor People’s Campaign participants access to their statehouse, said Jeremy Porter…
by Don Weber – FLORENCE – Former Secretary of State and Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce President Trey Grayson believes that Amy McGrath’s win over Lexington Mayor Jim Gray in the 6th Congressional District Democratic primary was the result of effective campaign ads as well as having the voters embrace her political outsider role. McGrath…
by ADAM BEAM Associated Press – LEXINGTON, KY. — A Democratic lobbyist has been convicted of bribing Kentucky’s No. 2 law enforcement officer in a case voters are likely to see in political ads for next year’s race for governor. A federal jury said James Sullivan was trying to bribe Deputy Attorney General Tim Longmeyer in…
by Beth Warren, Louisville Courier Journal – An elite Louisville task force that intercepted shipments of heroin and other illegal drugs at UPS’ worldwide hub has been disbanded following a police scandal. (April 2017) Terry Lipshetz/Courier Journal | Wochit Narcotics Detective Kyle Willett made the 10-minute drive to a McDonald’s drive-thru for sweet tea and cheeseburgers before returning…
By AARON MUDD amudd@bgdailynews.com – Western Kentucky University students will have to shell out more tuition dollars if the university’s Board of Regents approves a proposed 4 percent increase Friday. A proposed tuition and fees schedule said the rate for resident undergraduate students would increase from $5,101 to $5,301 per semester. The rate for nonresident undergraduate…
by DANIEL DESROCHERS, ddesrochers@herald-leader.com – When U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, R-Lexington first won his seat in 2012, he made heavy use of a signature industry of the region: coal. Now, as Barr fends off his strongest Democratic challenger yet, another signature industry in the district is under threat: bourbon. After President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on…