BY: Thomas Novelly and Allison Ross , The Courier-Journal – Attorney General Andy Beshear and Gov. Matt Bevin clashed Tuesday after Beshear followed through on his threat to challenge the governor’s reorganization of several education boards in court. “The governor’s refusal to rescind or materially alter his unconstitutional executive orders dissolving and reorganizing independent education…
By June Leffler – Kentucky and other Medicaid expansion states are seeing an increase in overall emergency room visits. Still, fewer uninsured people are going to the ER under the Affordable Care Act. In 2014, states with expanded Medicaid access saw an 8.8 percent increase in the share of ER visits covered by Medicaid, according…
BY: Terry DeMio , [email protected] – Kentucky doctors diagnosed more cases of opioid addiction for people privately insured than did doctors in any other state in the nation last year, a new report finds. The report, “America’s Opioid Epidemic: Data on the Privately Insured Population,” gives an indication of how the opioid and heroin epidemic…
BY: BY ALFRED MILLER The State Journal (KPNS) – Capital Plaza redevelopment is about to throw a 385,500-square-foot wrench into one of Franklin County’s biggest industries — office space. Each year, state government pays $15.3 million to lease 1.5 million square feet of office space and 200,000 square feet of storage space from Franklin County…
BY: Andrew Wolfson and Grace Schneider – During its first meeting since the release of a blistering audit, the board of the University of Louisville Foundation emerged from a two-hour closed session signaling it needs to do more analysis before it takes any action. The members agreed to appoint an ad hoc committee to consider…
BY MONICA KAST [email protected] – A Lexington biotechnology company aimed at fighting mosquito-borne diseases such as the Zika virus opened a mosquito factory Friday on Malabu Drive. MosquitoMate, a biotechnology company founded by University of Kentucky entomology professor Stephen Dobson, will use the 6,000-square-foot space to raise millions of sterile, non-biting mosquitoes that will act…
by Madeline Janicki – Governor Matt Bevin has told Attorney General Andy Beshear that he intends to alter his executive order reorganizing education boards by Friday, June 16, according to a press release from Beshear’s office. Last week Beshear announced that he would give the Governor a week to rescind an order dissolving and reorganizing…
By MATT MARKGRAF Governor Matt Bevin is joining state and local officials in Paducah on Wednesday to ceremonially sign the bill that effectively lifted the nuclear moratorium in Kentucky. The state legislature passed Senate Bill 11 -known as the ‘Leeper Act’ earlier this year. The measure is named after McCracken County Judge Executive and former…
by Madeline Janicki As part of ongoing efforts to strengthen victim advocacy resources, the Office of the Attorney General will recognize its first-ever Distinguished Service Award winner during the Victims Assistance Conference in Frankfort this week. Marlene Zimmerman is a victim advocate with the Jefferson County Attorney’s Office of Domestic Violence and will be recognized…
BY ADAM BEAM | Associated Press FRANKFORT, KY. – A powerful Republican lawmaker says a “significant number” in the GOP-controlled state legislature believe Gov. Matt Bevin’s use of executive orders threatens their independence but he stopped short of endorsing a lawsuit proposed by the state’s Democratic attorney general. State Rep. John Carney, chairman of the House…
