By Tom Latek Kentucky Today Expanded gaming, including legalizing casinos and sports wagering, is likely to come up again during the 2020 General Assembly, but how hard it will be pushed depends on who wins the Governor’s race this November. Sen. Julian Carroll, D-Frankfort, sponsored a bill during this year’s session to legalize sports wagering,…
By WYMT News Staff | HAZARD/PIKEVILLE, Ky. (WYMT) – Two special guests are coming to Eastern Kentucky in support of Gov. Matt Bevin and Dr. Ralph Alvarado’s campaign for governor and lieutenant governor. Donald J. Trump, Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle will be in Hazard and Pikeville on Thursday. Guilfoyle is an attorney who co-hosted The Five on…
By Liam Niemeyer, Ohio Valley ReSource Tom Folz drives around on a sunny, August afternoon and surveys the thousands of acres of dark green, leafy soybean plants and tall stalks of corn he grows on his sprawling farm in Christian County, Kentucky. At 54, Folz has wispy, white hair matching his white mustache. It’s taken him…
BY DAVID GUILDFORD | KENTUCKY LOUISVILLE, Ky – Presidential hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders came to Louisville Sunday to ask a packed downtown crowd for support in his campaign, and also to take aim at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the heart of his state. “Today here in Louisville I say to Senator McConnell, stop worrying…
AMBER SMITH | KENTUCKY OLDHAM COUNTY, Ky. – In schools, a guidance counselor can often be the first line of defense for kids experiencing trauma or other forms of emotional pain. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in five youth live with a mental health condition, but less than half of those kids…
BY MICHON LINDSTROM | KENTUCKY FRANKFORT, Ky. – In Canada, a vial of insulin costs $22—in America that same vial is over $300. The astronomical cost of insulin in America and what Kentucky lawmakers can do to help the more than half a million Kentuckians dealing with the disease was the topic of the Interim Committee on Banking…
By Jacqueline Pitts, The Bottom Line Vince Gabbert FRANKFORT, Ky. — Lawmakers discussed legislation Wednesday to legalize wagering on sporting events which was proposed during the 2019 session but did not see final passage. Keeneland Vice President and COO Vince Gabbert told the Interim Joint Committee on Licensing and Occupations the horse racing industry supports the legislation…
By The Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s reelection campaign recently placed nearly $4 million worth of advertising on TV and radio leading up to his November showdown with Democrat and archnemesis Andy Beshear. Now, the Republican governor’s campaign is looking to reap a financial windfall when President Donald Trump headlines a private fundraiser…
By Ryan Van Velzer Kentucky utility regulators want more information to decide whether Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest has legal standing to file a complaint over a natural gas pipeline in northern Bullitt County. Bernheim filed a complaint with utility regulators in early August alleging Louisville Gas and Electric bypassed the typical process for a new natural…
BY EVA MCKEND | KENTUCKY LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Louisville lawmakers are working to turn over responsibility of holding incarcerated juveniles to the state. The two sides are negotiating the terms of the city’s exit strategy. “It would not be feasible for us to take over the system, the actual physical plant that exists at JCYC,” said John…