by BILL ESTEP, bestep@herald-leader.com – A Kentucky circuit judge has been suspended until ethics charges against her are resolved. Judge Beth Lewis Maze will be suspended with pay beginning Oct. 2, according to an order released Monday by the state Judicial Conduct Commission. Maze agreed to the suspension, according to the order. She is circuit judge…
by KENTUCKY NEWS CONNECTION – The Internet is an essential tool in the daily lives of many Americans – however, Kentucky’s challenges in closing the rural digital divide are two-fold. An estimated 22 percent of Kentuckians have access to two or fewer broadband providers in their area, and the Kentucky Wired plan to ensure high…
by Alfred Miller, Louisville Courier Journal – Bevin explains why the state’s chief information officer is worth $375,000 annually. Tom Loftus, Louisville Courier Journal Something about the email — purportedly from a Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet employee — seemed off to Jim Seiffert. The Stites & Harbison tax attorney emailed back. Was this intended for…
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Gov. Matt Bevin has made the following appointments to Kentucky Boards and Commissions: Sheila D. Hodges, William E. St. Pierre, Rick L. Hamby and David R. Azbill have been appointed as members of the Consumers’ Advisory Council. Sheila D. Hodges, of Princeton, is an insurance agent. She will serve for a term expiring Sept.…
by LaneReport.com WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday that community health centers in Kentucky will receive nearly $5.6 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The funding will be used to support HHS’s Five-Point Opioid Strategy nationwide. The funding was approved by Congress earlier this year, and McConnell played…
by LAURA UNGAR, CourierJournal.com If you were going to try to stop mothers from dying in childbirth, you might try what most states in America have done: assign a panel of experts to review what’s going wrong and offer ideas to fix it. But that hasn’t worked. Death rates among pregnant women and new mothers…
by JACK BRAMMER, Kentucky.com FRANKFORT – The Kentucky Republican Party filed ethics and campaign finance complaints Wednesday against a House Democratic leader, alleging he misused state resources for his re-election campaign this fall. The GOP complaints were filed against House Minority Whip Wilson Stone of Scottsville, who was elected to the House in 2008 and…
by TOM LATEK, Kentucky Today FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – Kentucky State Treasurer Allison Ball was named the State Financial Officers Foundation’s National Chair at the fall meeting in Kansas City. She is the first Kentuckian to serve in that position. Prior to being elected, she served as national vice-chair for the organization, where she was…
by Annie Andersen – Emotions ran high at the September meeting of the State Board of Elections. FRANKFORT— A call for an ambulance, raised voices and a threat to call security marked the September meeting of Kentucky’s Board of Elections. The meeting started off as any other would, with introductions and approving the minutes from the…
Hale informs court of recent economic development numbers by MELINDA J. OVERSTREET moverstreet@glasgowdailytimes.com – GLASGOW – The acting secretary of the Kentucky Labor Cabinet urged members of his home county’s fiscal court to remember that they have friends in surrounding counties and in Frankfort who are there to help. David Dickerson, a former Barren County judge-executive…