Kentucky educators, both past and present, have been busy making a visible presence at Frankfort’s State Capitol over the past couple of weeks. That’s likely to continue during this last full week of the 2018 session. A common sight over the last two weeks in Frankfort has been committee rooms virtually filled with teachers –…
The political stakes are high in the upcoming midterm elections and Republicans in west Kentucky are preparing for a challenge as Democrats are looking to regain control as federal and state levels. The GOP also sees an opportunity in sharing recent accomplishments paired with conservative values to flip the last two Democratic state House seats…
Members of the Kentucky Senate are expected to vote this week on a two year budget. A vote before the Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee could come as early as Tuesday. Senate consideration of pension reforms have stalled. WEKU’S Stu Johnson asked Senate Majority Floor Leader Damon Thayer if the biennial budget document could include…
A Paris farmer with operations in several Central Kentucky counties grossed $2.6 million through fraudulent crop-insurance claims and other illegal acts, a federal grand jury has charged. Ronnie Jolly, 46, was indicted March 1 but the charges were sealed until Tuesday. Jolly owned or rented farm land in Bourbon, Scott, Bath, Fleming and Montgomery counties…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WYMT/WKYT) – One bill that would increase benefits for families of men and women who die in the line of duty hit a roadblock. Members of the Kentucky House did not even bring up the bill during a committee meeting Tuesday. A group of people including officers and their families went to the committee…
LEXINGTON– Attorney General Jeff Sessions will travel to Lexington Thursday to meet with families of overdose victims and deliver remarks on the opioid epidemic. Sessions will hold a roundtable with families of victims, before delivering a speech at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky. Session was in Louisville on January 30 delivering…
HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT) — Dozens of teachers voiced their opinion on pensions in front of the Perry County Kentucky Education Association (KEA) office before a meeting to discuss the issue Monday. “We go into this job because we love what we do, and our pay is not great, but the benefit was promised to us,” said…
Thirty-two states, including some known for being tough on crime, provide compensation by statute to people who were wrongfully incarcerated. Kentucky is not among them. A proposal to provide such relief in Kentucky failed to get out of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2001 when it was proposed by state Sen. General Neal, D-Louisville. Then-Chairman Robert Stivers,…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 12, 2018) – Gov. Matt Bevin has made the following appointments to Kentucky Boards and Commissions: Paul A. Tenkotte, Timothy C. Peters, Linda Ann Carroll and Judi Patton have been appointed as members of the Kentucky Heritage Council. Dr. Paul A. Tenkotte, of Covington, is a professor of history and director of Northern Kentucky…
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