Beshear announces upcoming book on faith and healing the country with kindness
Had hinted at the announcement for a few days on social media
KY Senate committee backs bill to restore voting rights to some with felony convictions
Certain crimes not included; some groups want broader bill
Trump administration completes rollback of Obama-era greenhouse gas regulations
“Remember: In the spring of 2024, Donald Trump invited top oil executives to Mar-a-Lago and told them, if you raise me a billion dollars to get me elected, I will cut regulations so you can make more money. That devil’s bargain is now coming true.”
Advancing bill would criminalize ‘harassing’ law enforcement, ICE agents and medics
Legislation would create a buffer zone around a ‘first responder’ after a warning
Committee passes uniform way for Kentucky universities to fire professors for financial reasons
Opponent: “This bill creates a ready-made pretext for arbitrarily removing faculty.”
Public notices would still be published in KY newspapers under bill carried by GOP leader
Also published online and at kypublicnotice.com.
A choice is hidden in the pages of Kentucky’s next state budget
Who, exactly, is our state budget designed to help?
All Dem governors, incl Beshear, bow out of WH dinner after Trump snubs several
Kentucky’s Beshear, Michigan’s Whitmer, 16 other Democratic governors say Trump creates ‘chaos and division’
‘It is astonishing’: Congress rebuffs Trump push to slash $33B from health and human services
Bipartisan bill refuses Trump’s cuts, instead raises some budgets
Kentucky students’ lawsuit over public education quality can proceed, judge rules
Says they have standing to sue, but that this is still “the beginning and not the end of the constitutional issues”
Trump’s calls to ‘nationalize’ elections have state, local election officials bracing for tumult
Some election leaders are preparing for the possibility of federal pressure.
Top Dems in Congress list ICE constraints they want in funding bill
Temporary funding bill runs out on February 13
House committee approves changes to assessments that measure student growth
Uses direct feedback from local community as one component
Kentucky ‘will not tolerate’ child grooming, House says with unanimous vote
Bill now goes to the Senate
Hospitalized McConnell alerts Stivers to new federal funding for Kentucky
McConnell in hospital with flu-like symptoms
Two GOP priorities for public education advance from Kentucky Senate
FRANKFORT — The Republican-controlled state Senate passed bills Monday aimed at shining more light on school districts’ spending and shifting the balance of power in Kentucky’s largest school district. The bills, considered top priorities by Senate Republicans, now head to the House, which also has a GOP supermajority, for further
