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State Senate President Robert Stivers sent Gov. Andy Beshear a letter today, asking him to call a special session to address health-care staffing shortages that continue even as the pandemic slowly wanes. Beshear said more work needs to be done before a session, which only he can call.
The so-called “Spartacus” letter contains numerous baseless claims buried within over 40 pages of analysis and citations, and which appears to have been carefully crafted to mask the dubious nature of the letter’s origin and the unfounded nature of many of the author’s allegations.
Instead of giving handouts to select private schools, shouldn’t we be restoring funding for public schools?
47 million adults say that the 2020 election was stolen. 21 million also agree that “use of force is justified to restore Donald J. Trump to the presidency.” At least 7 million of these own a gun, and at least 3 million have served in the U.S. military and so have lethal skills.
Do masks work? Recently, I was part of the largest randomized controlled trial to date testing the effectiveness of mask-wearing. What we found provides gold-standard evidence that confirms previous research: Wearing masks, particularly surgical masks, prevents COVID-19.
Kentucky lawmakers and state advocates want to expand the state's unemployment system to include survivors of domestic violence.
Officials with a company that received $15 million from the state to help build a $1.7 billion aluminum mill in northeast Kentucky, which would have employed hundreds of people, were grilled by state lawmakers on Friday over a lack of progress in constructing the facility.
The U.S. used to have a rigorously progressive tax system – but now, the uber-rich actually pay a lower tax rate than the poorest citizens. Read this to learn more.
Here's a video from some leading scientists that calls out a real problem in our country: so-called "alternate facts." It's about 25 minutes long, but worth your time.
The COVID-19 pandemic has now killed more Americans than the 1918 Spanish flu, based on the official death count from COVID-19 compared to the estimated fatalities from the 1918 pandemic.
While critics charge that charter schools siphon money away from public schools, a more fundamental issue frequently flies under the radar: the questionable business practices that allow people who own and run charter schools to make large profits.
Dr. Josh Douglas of UK's law school weighs in on the Trump lawyers, and concludes they should be disbarred.
War is peace, freedom is slavery, and the Supreme Court is a dispassionate nonpartisan branch of government free of bias — this is the Orwellian fable that Justice Amy Coney Barrett is now asking Americans to believe.
We are required in Social Studies to include Kentucky connections to units we teach. It has left me wondering how we will teach several important events, places, and people from Kentucky if we are not able to discuss race as a historical factor.
Dr. Julie Swann, Distinguished Professor and Department Head at NC State University, debunks the claim that face masks can't block viruses such as COVID-19.
My father used this expression whenever there appeared some situation that appeared insolvable. However, unbeknownst to you and I at the moment, there may be a solution in the future.
