Government
Kentucky AG to US Supreme Court: Hear anti-abortion protester’s case against buffer zones
Kentucky Republican Attorney General Russell Coleman is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge to a New Jersey city ordinance creating a buffer-zone for protesters around health care facilities.? The 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals recently backed the city’s rule in the lawsuit, Turco v. City of Englewood. Jeryl Turco is arguing […]
Kentucky State University officials brief lawmakers on progress since 2022 bailout
Kentucky State University officials told lawmakers that the institution has made improvements two years after the General Assembly increased oversight of the university amid budget shortfalls.? The officials gave updates on the goals outlined by the 2022 legislation to the Interim Joint Committee on Education on Tuesday and the Budget Review Subcommittee on Education on […]
Kentucky investing $223 million to rebuild rental housing in tornado-impacted Western Kentucky?
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear alongside leaders from the state’s housing corporation and local communities on Monday announced more than $223 million in bonds and grants will be invested to replenish rental housing in Bowling Green and other Western Kentucky communities impacted by tornadoes.? Much of the region’s rental housing stock, particularly homes accessible to low-income […]
Kentucky’s certificate of need law on interim legislative committee’s June 20 agenda
An interim legislative committee is scheduled to take up the issue of Kentucky’s certificate of need requirements later this month.? The Interim Joint Committee (IJC) on Licensing, Occupations and Administrative Regulation will discuss the controversial issue on June 20 at 11 a.m. Eastern Time in room 154 of the Capitol Annex in Frankfort.? Sen. John […]
Multiplying trauma: Kentucky set to add more kids to its troubled juvenile jails
A state law taking effect next month will require more kids charged with violent offenses to be held in Kentucky’s troubled juvenile jails — at a time when all eight of the youth detention centers are under federal investigation for possible abuses. That worries Devine Carama, who directs the One Lexington program to tackle gun […]
States are already collecting more abortion data. And HIPAA won’t always keep it private.
Years before the Dobbs decision, providers like Dr. Kylie Cooper were already uncomfortable with some of the reporting requirements for abortion procedures in states where they practiced. Cooper was a maternal-fetal medicine specialist for several years in Idaho before she reluctantly left the state in 2023 because of the near-total abortion ban that is now […]
Some providers will offer low-cost internet even as federal program ends, White House says
WASHINGTON — With May 31 marking the official last day of the pandemic-era Affordable Connectivity Program, the Biden administration is spotlighting commitments from over a dozen internet service providers to offer plans at $30 or less to low-income households through 2024. This comes as Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said the short-term program had […]
No guarantee of federal aid for latest survivors in tornado-struck Western Kentucky
HOPKINS COUNTY — Raymond Emery has spent the past few nights leaning back in the front seat of his green minivan to stay close to his chickens and dogs. They’re among his few remaining possessions after a powerful EF-3 tornado, winds reaching 160 mph, ripped through his rented trailer the evening of May 26. One […]
Kentucky Republicans stand by Trump, blame Democrats for former president’s convictions
Republicans in Kentucky’s congressional delegation have denounced the guilty verdicts against former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, while the lone Democrat said the New York jury has shown that in this country “no one’s above the law.” The Republican Party of Kentucky (RPK) posted a statement Thursday night blaming the Biden […]
McConnell says Biden should let Ukraine use US weapons across Russian border
FRANKFORT — U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that President Joe Biden should allow Ukraine to use U.S. weapons to launch attacks inside Russia. McConnell said he’s “consistently argued” with the administration that its restriction against Ukraine launching U.S. weapons across the border into Russia “doesn’t make any sense at all.” “I think […]
With recanvasses behind them, two primary winners look to November
LOUISVILLE — About a week after Kentucky’s primary election, two races were recanvassed, but?their outcomes did not change. Though results still need to be certified, Aaron Reed won the Republican primary in the 7th Senate District and William “Woody” Zorn won the Democratic primary in the 36th House District. Secretary of State Michael Adams said […]
House Speaker Johnson opposes radiation compensation for Missouri, New Mexico
Offering compensation to thousands of Americans across nine states exposed to radiation from the nation’s nuclear weapons program would be too expensive, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office said Wednesday. With less than two weeks until the existing Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expires, a spokesperson in Johnson’s office said the speaker supports renewing the program […]