By Kyeland Jackson If you’re arrested in Kentucky, whether you get out of jail before trial differs wildly depending on which county you’re in. That’s according to a new report by the progressive Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, which found stark disparities between counties for people offered pretrial release without financial conditions, as well as…
By Chris Otts FRANKFORT, Ky. (WDRB) – Gov. Matt Bevin’s economic development cabinet wants to give an $8.5 million no-bid contract to a new nonprofit organization whose top officer is a high-ranking cabinet employee and whose board includes the recently departed secretary of the cabinet. But legislators on Tuesday balked when asked to approve the…
By STU JOHNSON The uncertainty regarding future pension contributions for Kentucky’s five major public universities is creating budgeting challenges. Kentucky lawmakers could still be called to Frankfort to enact pension reforms before July, the start of the new fiscal year. But if a legislative remedy isn’t forthcoming before the end of the month, Eastern Kentucky University…
By BRIAN MANN Two years ago, the drug company Insys Therapeutics posted a quarter-billion dollars in annual sales. But the Arizona-based firm’s fortunes plummeted so far that on Monday its leaders declared bankruptcy. It was the latest fall-out from the nation’s prescription opioid epidemic, which has killed more than 200,000 Americans and triggered hundreds…
BY DANIEL DESROCHERS JUNE 10, 2019 01:05 PM, UPDATED JUNE 10, 2019 02:00 PM Tim Longmeyer, a former deputy attorney general under Andy Beshear who pleaded guilty to political bribery charges, has officially become a talking point in the general election for Kentucky governor. The Republican Governors Association launched a television ad Monday criticizing…
BY MICHON LINDSTROM PUBLISHED 6:09 PM ET JUN. 10, 2019 LOUISVILLE, Ky- U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, made a stop in Louisville Monday to discuss criminal justice reform. Paul spoke at New Legacy, a non-profit based in lousville that provides housing and vocational education among other things to former felons. While visiting the non-profit, Paul…
By Chris Otts LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – The parent company of KentuckyOne Health came within hours last week of canceling its longstanding financial support of the University of Louisville’s medical school in frustration over the lack of a deal to sell Jewish Hospital and other Louisville healthcare properties to the university, according to public…
By Lisa Autry An Owensboro facility is among six Kentucky nursing homes named in a federal report as having poor safety records. A report shared this week with the Senate Special Committee on Aging named 400 nursing homes across the nation with a ‘persistent record of poor care.’ The Courier-Journal reports that the facilities…
By The American Cancer Society The American Cancer Society (ACS) has named Erica Kellem Beasley the executive director for Kentucky. She began her duties March 18. As executive director, her focus is the development and execution of the Kentucky area plan to support the mission of ACS, build a strong area board of directors,…
By Kyeland Jackson A new grant will allow the nonprofit Kentucky Center For Economic Policy to research Kentucky’s rising incarceration rates. The $10,000 grant from the New York-based nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice was announced Tuesday. KCEP Executive Director Jason Bailey said his organization will research and collect data on county jails in Barren, Leslie,…