CUMBERLAND, Ky. (WYMT) – Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) President Jay Box announced Monday the finalists for the position of president/CEO of Southeast Kentucky Community College and Technical College (SKCTC). The finalists are: – Dr. Barry Vann, founding chair and director of doctoral programs in leadership and professor of higher education and geography, University of the…
by ANDREW ADKINS, THE DAILY INDEPENDENT – FRANKFORT — A new state law was passed at the most recent legislative session that will place the state in compliance with new federal travel standards by creating a new Travel ID driver’s license in 2019. If Gov. Matt Bevin hadn’t signed the “REAL ID” bill into law March 21,…
by Chris Otts – LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A new report concludes Kentucky would be among the handful of states most affected by a 20 percent tax on imported goods that some Congressional Republicans support as part of a broader tax overhaul. Kentucky would be the fifth-most “sensitive” state to the so-called “border adjustment tax,”…
by MATT MARKGRAF – With the passage of a bill lifting the ‘nuclear moratorium’ in Kentucky, now that Senate Bill 11 also known as the ‘Robert J. Leeper Act’ has been signed into law, there is a renewed attention on the past, present and future of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. State Senator Danny Carroll championed the bill with…
by Nick Storm, @NStorm_politics – With the regular session in the rearview mirror lawmakers, advocates and others will now focus on the road ahead, which Gov. Matt Bevin has said will include a special session on tax and pension reform. Mark Sommer, an attorney specializing in tax law with Frost Brown Todd in Louisville, recently reviewed areas ripe…
BY BILL ESTEP, bestep@herald-leader.com – A judge has ruled that embattled disability attorney Eric C. Conn should pay $31 million in damages and penalties to the federal government and two former Social Security Administration employees who tried to blow the whistle on his fraudulent conduct, according to an attorney in the case. U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar…
by Kevin Wheatley – Legislation authorizing public charter schools in Kentucky isn’t exactly how Bluegrass Institute President Jim Waters envisioned, but he expects they will improve student achievement in a state where performance has lagged. Waters said he would have liked to see additional charter school authorizers in the final version of House Bill 520 considering some…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell has named a new chief of staff in his Senate office. Phil Maxson, his current legislative director, will be the new chief of staff, replacing Brian McGuire. McGuire has worked for McConnell for 10 years. McConnell says in a release that Maxson has worked “tirelessly over the years” on Kentucky’s interests.…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT/WYMT) – A new study might have some Kentuckians stressed out. That’s because it found that the Bluegrass state is the 5th most stressed out state in the country. The study by WalletHub says the state is the most stressed about job security, divorce, sleep and their health. Other factors in the study were the number…
by Lisa Gillespie – Pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb is looking to Kentucky to reach more oncologists and cancer patients to participate in clinical trials. The commonwealth ranks in the top 10 states for rates of breast, colorectal, cervical and lung cancers. And in Kentucky, deaths related to smoking are three times higher than deaths from drug overdoses. Clinical trials usually…