GLASGOW – Residents who are not registered to vote have roughly two weeks to do so if they aim to vote in Kentucky’s May 22 primary election. That includes 17-year-olds who will turn 18 on or before the general election, which is Nov. 6. The primary election narrows the field of candidates to one when…
As the campaigns for Jim Gray and Amy McGrath release internal polling memos and their early first quarter FEC campaign finance reports, the campaign of Reggie Thomas is seeking to avoid the fray and find space in the crowded campaign field for the Democratic nomination in the 6th Congressional District. Thomas’ campaign says they’re not worried about the poll…
Gov. Matt Bevin says he will veto the entire two-year state budget and revenue bills passed by the legislature last week, saying that the tax plan isn’t comprehensive enough and the budget spends too much money. The budget passed by the legislature included about $600 million more in spending than the spending plan proposed by Bevin back…
by GREG DAVIS – If it weren’t for clinical studies we would not have medications, surgical procedures, and it’s not a stretch to declare we wouldn’t have healthcare at all. This week on Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine the host speaks with Linda Rice, director of clinical operations at the Center for Clinical and Translational Science…
by Laura Ungar, Louisville Courier Journal – ATLANTA — The U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory on Thursday urging more Americans to carry naloxone, which can reverse the opioid overdoses that kill a person every 12½ minutes in this country. Dr. Jerome Adams said people at risk of an opioid overdose, as well as their family and…
by Nick Storm, @NStorm_politics – The Republican Party of Kentucky has launched a series of robocalls against Democrats who voted against the biennium budget bill. The calls seem to be targeting rural Democrats, mainly House members, with Republican challengers in the general election. The calls are meant to inform voters a Republican Party spokesperson said on…
by LINDA BLACKFORD, lblackford@herald-leader.com – In the rush of the legislative session’s last day, the University of Kentucky got a pleasant surprise: $40 million in state bonds over the next two years to help with its next big research building aimed at solving the state’s health disparities. Currently known as Research Building 2, the steel skeleton…
by Spectrum News – Former state Auditor Adam Edelen and his wife Melissa have reconciled after the pair nearly split last year. Melissa Edelen filed for divorce in Fayette Circuit Court Oct. 2, saying their “marriage is irretrievably broken,” Pure Politics reported in November. The couple are back together a family spokesperson told Pure Politics…
by Tom Loftus, Louisville Courier Journal – FRANKFORT, Ky. – Gov. Matt Bevin made clear in a statement Monday he does not like the tax reform and budget bills that the General Assembly flopped on his desk. Bevin’s statement said he is “very concerned” that the budget and tax bills do not meet “basic standards of fiscal…
Originally published on March 28, 2018 11:58 am Velva Poole has spent about 20 years as a social worker, mostly in Louisville, Ky. She’s seen people ravaged by methamphetamines and cocaine; now it’s mostly opioids. Most of her clients are parents who have lost custody of their children because of drug use. Poole remembers one…