By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Matt Bevin says “hundreds of thousands” of able-bodied adult Kentuckians on Medicaid should be working but choose not to. But when his new Medicaid “community engagement” rules were set to kick in last July, only about 48,000 people on the program were short of meeting the requirements,…
By Kevin Wheatley LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – The busiest construction season for Jefferson County Public Schools – the summer months when schools are mostly empty – may be winding to a close, but district officials are already taking a close look at how to improve facilities and build new ones. With more than $1…
By Annie Moore and Kaitlin Rust LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE/Gray News) – Louisville Metro Police Department is working to track down who’s behind comments painted onto the side of the Louisville Democratic Party headquarters. Officers responded to the building on Durrett Lane in Camp Taylor around 10 a.m. Sunday. On the scene, officials found several…
By LISA AUTRY • 15 HOURS AGO Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes is disputing claims that her office is preparing to remove up to a quarter-million Kentuckians from the voter registration rolls. Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit in 2017 that claimed Kentucky had more registered voters than citizens over the age of 18. The conservative watchdog group…
By STU JOHNSON • 14 HOURS AGO With pension reforms for universities and more than a hundred quasi government agencies now finalized, state lawmakers could turn their attention to the pensions of thousands of other public employees. House Speaker David Osborne said funding pensions will be a key concern when lawmakers take up the budget early next year.…
BY LESLEY CLARK WASHINGTON Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul are proposing legislation to benefit Kentucky’s burgeoning bourbon industry. The Kentucky Republicans’ legislation, offered Wednesday, would make permanent an about-to-expire provision in the tax code that allows for the deduction of interest expenses related to bourbon inventory in the year the expenses…
BY EVA MCKEND KENTUCKY PUBLISHED 4:28 PM ET JUL. 19, 2019 WASHINGTON, DC – Finding an affordable place to live can be tremendously difficult for low-Income families. According to research from the Brookings Institution, poor families in at least ten metro areas they surveyed shell out more than 60% of their income on housing. The Department of Housing defines…
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The steel frame of Transylvania University’s new Campus Center will soon rise from the construction site along North Broadway. Work is proceeding on schedule for a fall 2020 opening. So far, workers have been focused on the lower level of the $30-million facility. Footings — which will help support the structure —…
Associated Press Published 2:56 p.m. ET July 23, 2019 | Updated 6:10 p.m. ET July 23, 2019 FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — While Kentucky lawmakers worked Tuesday on a pension-relief bill he wants them to pass, Gov. Matt Bevin was in Colorado for a partisan event that he says let him talk trade issues with the…
By Becca Schimmel The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has been granted another extension on compliance with the REAL ID Act. This will allow current state driver’s licenses to be used for air travel until October 2020. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has determined that the Commonwealth is fully compliant with the new ID regulations.…