Gov. Matt Bevin and Attorney General Andy Beshear were back in court on Wednesday, this time over a challenge to the governor’s reorganization of several education boards this summer. Beshear argues that the governor illegally suspended laws passed by the legislature when he issued an executive order adding four non-voting advisors to the Kentucky Board…
FRANKFORT- Kentucky prosecutors warned the Bevin Administration this week that 17.4 percent cuts to their budgets would force them to either close their offices and lay off hundreds of employees by March 1 or cut their employees’ salaries by as much as 75 percent beginning Jan. 1. “Drastic measures such as these would result in systemic…
Broadband Implementation Manager Larry R. Combs spoke to members of the Corbin City Commission and members of the community Monday afternoon about the KentuckyWired project. KentuckyWired is scheduled to bring more than 3,000 miles of high-speed, high-capacity fiber infrastructure to all 120 counties in Kentucky. Southeastern Kentucky has been granted a priority and is scheduled…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) — The American Heart Association Hands-Only CPR Mobile Tour stopped in Bowling Green at Western Kentucky University to teach free, life-saving lessons to the campus community. During the event on Monday afternoon, participants practiced CPR chest compressions on “manikins”, learned how to work an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), and were able…
FRANKFORT, Ky. — As Kentucky lawmakers prepare to tackle pension reform, they’re also considering the impact the commonwealth’s struggling retirement systems will have on the next budget and whether legislators’ pensions should be handled differently than those of other public employees. During a Monday meeting of the legislature’s Public Pension Oversight Board, state Rep. James…
FLORENCE – Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear presented a $48,000 grant funding check from the Child Victims’ Trust Fund to Family Nurturing Center in Florence, an agency which works to help prevent child abuse in Northern Kentucky. The money which will be doubled by an anonymous donor match will be used to provide 230 training…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Sept. 22, 2017) – Gov. Matt Bevin today made the following appointments to Kentucky Boards and Commissions: Richard Crist, Rebecca Ruby Swansburg, William Boggs and Jordan Lanham have been appointed to the Kentucky Public Transportation Infrastructure Authority. Richard Crist, of Florence, is a civil engineer and real estate developer. He will serve for a…
Sixth District Representative Andy Barr says Kentuckians and other Americans should be concerned about activities within the North Korean government. The Republican representative says those worries should be based on ten years of a U.S. policy of strategic patience toward the nation ruled by dictator Kim Jong-un. Barr says he applauds the Trump administration’s approach. “Enhanced…
by ASSOCIATED PRESS – A rogue distillery worker at the center of a bourbon-heist scheme that spirited away tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of liquor has pleaded guilty in a case that has already secured a place in Kentucky lore. Gilbert “Toby” Curtsinger, accused as the ringleader of the operation that stole bourbon from a…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – A Republican lawmaker has filed a bill that would let Kentucky’s governor appoint the state’s appellate judges. State Rep. Jason Nemes pre-filed the legislation Wednesday. It would amend the state constitution to let the governor pick judges from a list of three nominees provided by the Judicial Nominating Commission. Right now, the…