by Deborah Yetter, @d_yetter – Jean West, a longtime Louisville television news personality and health journalist, has been appointed communications director for the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services. The cabinet, one of the state’s largest agencies, oversees areas including public health, Medicaid, social services, child protection and aging services. West will report to cabinet Secretary…
Answers in Genesis researchers Georgia Purdom and Dr. Andrew Snelling recount the reactions they had seen from guests during opening day of the Noah’s ark replica at Ark Encounter park in Williamstown on July 7th. BY LINDA BLACKFORD, lblackford@herald-leader.com – A week after a secularist foundation warned public school officials against taking kids to the newly…
by Joseph Gerth, @Joe_Gerth – Former U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh filed his paperwork and announced Wednesday that he would run to return to the U.S. Senate for the state of Indiana. Former U.S. Rep. Baron Hill shocked the Hoosier state on Monday when he announced that he was withdrawing from the race, opening the way for…
by Kevin Wheatley, @KWheatley_cn2 – LEXINGTON — Hours before President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush spoke at a memorial for five Dallas police officers slain in a racial shooting attack by an African-American veteran last week, political consultants James Carville and Mary Matalin offered their thoughts on police-race relations on the closing day of the Southern…
By Chris Otts – LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – The newly reconstituted University of Louisville Board of Trustees – which holds its first meeting Wednesday afternoon – should avoid making “important or long-term decisions” until the court fight over the board’s legitimacy is resolved, according to Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear. But Gov. Matt Bevin’s top…
by Kate Howard – Dr. Susan Harkema became the face of one of the University of Louisville’s splashiest research successes the moment one of her paralyzed patients wiggled his toe. Her name was in Time Magazine. She was interviewed on “Good Morning America” and CNN. The notoriety brought more funding and patients to U of L with…
by VALARIE HONEYCUTT SPEARS, vhoneycutt@herald-leader.com – Wayne County Public Schools Assistant Superintendent Allen Clark is offering a deal to homeschool families: If a homeschool student is willing to enroll in the district taking online courses, the district will pay for the classes. “We assign a teacher from our high school and they work with the child,” Clark…
The Associated Press – LEXINGTON, KY. — Lawmakers from 15 southern states took time out of the Southern Legislative Conference to help the hungry. Media outlets report that hundreds of volunteers packed meals Sunday morning at God’s Pantry Food Bank in Lexington. Conference attendees have volunteered at the food bank for the past six years. This…
by JOE CORCORAN – The leader of Bowling Green-based health group says a needle exchange for intravenous drug users is the best way to fight the state’s addiction problems. Dennis Chaney, director of the Barren River District Health Department, is applauding the Bowling Green city commission’s decision Tuesday to approve a needle exchange program. The exchange must…
by Deborah Yetter, @d_yetter – Gov. Matt Bevin said in a press conference he will seek permission from the federal government to reshape the federal-state health program that covers about 1.3 million Kentuckians. Michael Clevenger, CJ HAZARD, Ky. – A sweeping plan to overhaul Kentucky’s Medicaid program met its most forceful opposition yet in a region with some…