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Addiction recovery company under FBI investigation reducing staff, blames reimbursement cuts
Kentucky’s largest provider of drug and alcohol treatment is cutting staff and restructuring some services, citing significant cuts in Medicaid reimbursement from the government health plan that covers almost all of its clients. Addiction Recovery Care, or ARC, based in Louisa, said in a statement Thursday that, as a result of cuts in payment for […]
States are pushing back with anti-labor laws as union popularity grows, policy experts say
Growing union organizing across the country has triggered an anti-labor legislative response in some states, but cities and counties are increasingly pushing back, a new report found. The report, released this month?by the New York University Wagner Labor Initiative and Local Progress Impact Lab, a group for local elected officials focused on economic and racial […]
Harris’ historic presidential run uplifts Congressional Black Caucus annual? conference
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Buoyed by the prospect that one of their own could make history as the first woman elected president, the Congressional Black Caucus converged on the nation’s capital Wednesday for its annual conference of elected officials, allies and leaders in business, education and health care. Vice President Kamala Harris, who formally accepted the […]
Beshear names former Democratic state lawmaker to board regulating utilities in Kentucky
A former elected official from Eastern Kentucky who was part of Democratic leadership in the Kentucky House has been appointed to a powerful board regulating Kentucky utilities.?? Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear named John Will Stacy of West Liberty, a state representative from 1993 to 2015, to the three-member Kentucky Public Service Commission (PSC). Stacy was […]
Northern Kentucky developers, teachers unions fuel Amendment 2 money race
FRANKFORT — The big money being donated to defeat the so-called “school choice” amendment on the November ballot has come from – as expected – teachers unions, while the big money contributed by proponents of Amendment 2 has come from developers and other business interests in Northern Kentucky. Reports filed with the Kentucky Registry of […]
Lawmakers hear skepticism from Louisville residents who oppose breaking up school district
LOUISVILLE — More Louisville residents expressed skepticism about a legislative task force’s intentions amid fears of dismantling Jefferson County Public Schools Tuesday evening.? While addressing the Efficient and Effective School Governance Task Force, students, teachers, parents and more called for different solutions, like allocating more adequate funding for public schools, giving students incentives to become […]
More than shelter, campus to provide ‘wrap around’ care to a growing population in Louisville
LOUISVILLE — Construction has begun on Louisville’s Community Care Campus, a multi-building site in the Smoketown area aimed at providing housing, medical and other services to unhoused people in Kentucky’s largest city.? The campus, funded in part by the General Assembly, is now slated to open in 2027, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg announced Tuesday. Demolition […]
Kentucky AG gets green light to spend millions in opioid ‘blood money’ on youth prevention
Kentucky’s Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission voted in favor of spending $3.6 million over the next two years on a three-part addiction prevention campaign geared toward youth proposed by Attorney General Russell Coleman Tuesday.? The funds that the commission is in charge of distributing, which come from legal settlements with drug companies, “represent the shared pain […]
Beshear-backed challengers trying to turn two suburban Louisville state House districts blue
LOUISVILLE — Democrats backed by Gov. Andy Beshear are vying to unseat two Louisville Republicans in the Kentucky House this fall.? The challengers — union leader John Stovall and education advocate Kate Farrow — are hoping to turn Kentucky’s 37th and 48th House Districts blue. The seats are currently held by Republican Reps. Emily Callaway […]
Post-Roe health provider survey finds abortion bans create bad outcomes and distress
In the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court started allowing states — what has become almost half of the country — to ban all or most abortions, doctors continue to report that these laws have detrimentally changed their jobs and the quality of care they can provide pregnant patients. A research team led by […]
Rep. Kulkarni cleared for Nov. 5 ballot by Franklin Circuit judge. Appeal quickly filed.
FRANKFORT —?Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd issued a ruling Monday afternoon that allows state Rep. Nima Kulkarni, a Louisville Democrat, to seek reelection in November after months of court battles that went to the state Supreme Court. However, the lawyer for a primary challenger has already filed another appeal. In his order, Shepherd wrote that […]
Throwing some good shade on a historically neglected neighborhood in Bowling Green
It began with the smell. Joyce Tann, 75, had lived in her Bowling Green neighborhood of Delafield for close to a decade when she started conversations on her front porch with women from a local nonprofit trying to solve neighborhood problems: The loud truck traffic rumbling past. Landlords who have let properties become “rundown.” And […]