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…
Underpaid farmworkers in the Mississippi Delta and unemployed coal miners in Eastern Kentucky would not appear to have much in common, separated by race, geography, economics, and often, politics. But poor and exploited people have more similarities than differences and ought to work together for basic rights like jobs, healthcare and education, says a North…
BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky (WBKO) — Since Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin proposed changes in the state-funded pension system last fall, it has been bouncing between the House and the Senate. For months, school teachers and other state workers have demanded their pension promises be met. “There’s a lot of fear from teachers and school employees right now,”…
Legislation seeking to put into law an existing quota regulation for package liquor licensing continues to move through the Kentucky general assembly. An effort to weaken the measure fell short in a House Committee Tuesday. The legislation comes as the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control proposes lifting the population-based quota. Karen Lentz with the…
This story is developing and will be updated. Jefferson County Public Schools has a “wealth of talent,” but its central office suffers from an organizational structure that is “both redundant and incoherent,” according to a new report. The report, commissioned by the district, found widespread dysfunction in how the district’s various departments communicate and work with each…
If you listen to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, speak on the Senate floor, you would get the impression that Kentucky is thriving under the new sweeping tax reform, but a new study suggests something different. WalletHub conducted a study to see the states affected most from the tax reform, and instead of ranking in…