By BORIS LADWIG | July 11, 2019 5:45 am Jewish Hospital’s pioneering transplant program is in trouble, and its demise could produce far-reaching repercussions on the community. Surgical teams have performed only one heart transplant in the first six months of the year, according to the most recently available data, running afoul of federal minimum requirements and likely…
BY ANNIE ANDERSEN KENTUCKY PUBLISHED 4:29 PM ET JUL. 10, 2019 FRANKFORT, Ky. – In recent years, there has been a push to highlight career and technical education, or CTE, facilities. It’s a move Kentucky’s associate commissioner of the Office of Career and Technical Education and Student Transition, David Horseman, says they have done well. Showing the members of the Kentucky Career…
By WYMT News Staff Posted: Wed 10:37 PM, Jul 10, 2019 WASHINGTON, Ky. (WYMT) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday the U.S. Department of Energy will invest nearly $2.23 million in federal funding for the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UK CAER). This grant will be in addition to the $934,554…
By Daniel Desrochers JULY 09, 2019 09:24 PM, UPDATED JULY 09, 2019 09:24 PM President Donald Trump threw the weight of his presidency — and his popularity in Kentucky — behind U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday, endorsing McConnell on the same day the Republican leader saw his first major Democratic challenger in the 2020…
By WKYT News Staff | Posted: Wed 5:20 AM, Jul 10, 2019 | Updated: Wed 7:07 AM, Jul 10, 2019 FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) – A special session on pension reform appears to be only a few days away. House Majority Leader John Carney, R-Campbellsville, told the Lexington Herald-Leader that leadership has been told July 19 is, “the most likely date to start…
BY JONATHON GREGG KENTUCKY PUBLISHED 6:32 PM ET JUL. 09, 2019 LOUISVILLE, Ky- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has literally written the book on how to have a long career in politics. His 2016 memoir is actually titled, “The Long Game,” and a win in 2020 could be the beginning of a fitting epilogue to a long,…
By Jacqueline Pitts, The Bottom Line Scott Jennings, left, and Matt Jones FRANKFORT, Ky. — Ahead of the highly-anticipated general election in November, Matt Jones and Scott Jennings will discuss Kentucky politics at the Kentucky Chamber’s Business Summit on Thursday, July 11. Scott Jennings is a political contributor for CNN, co-founder and partner of a public relations…
By Emily Bennett | HARLAN COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) – Update Several hundred miners and their families attended the meeting in Harlan County. “Until today we didn’t know who to help,” said Harlan County Judge Executive Dan Mosley. “We didn’t know your name we didn’t know your address we didn’t know your phone number. We didn’t know…
BY MICHON LINDSTROM LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Ending months of speculation, former fighter pilot Amy McGrath announces she’s running against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2020. McGrath announced her candidacy similar to the way she announced her bid for the Sixth Congressional District, with a well made video. In the video titled “The Letter”, McGrath explains…
By The Associated Press | FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A group formed by the legislature to study the feasibility of privatizing foster care says Kentucky should focus on strengthening the system it already has. The study group’s 26-page report was published Friday. It urges state officials to remember that privatization “is not a `silver-bullet.”‘ The report says the…