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Gable’s death is a call for truth bells to ring BY: Al Cross - December 18, 2024 Robert Gable, who died at 90 on Nov. 29, will be remembered by the Kentucky political world as the man who kept the state Republican Party in business from 1986 to 1993, while Sen. Mitch McConnell was on his way up and planning a mostly friendly takeover of the state GOP.
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Dec 20, 2024 · U.S. Senate confirms final two Biden judges, adding to diversity records BY: Ashley Murray - December 20, 2024 WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s number of lifetime appointments to the federal bench surpassed the first Trump administration’s Friday and set records as the most diverse selection of judges by any president in U.S. history, according to federal judiciary observers.
State revenue is forecast to decline as Kentucky lawmakers …
Dec 9, 2024 · A projected dip in state tax collections appears not to have dimmed Republican leaders’ eagerness to again cut Kentucky’s income tax. Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers on Saturday said continuing to reduce the individual income tax rate — this time from 4% to 3.5% — remains the Republican supermajority’s No. 1 priority in the upcoming legislative session, reports WHAS11 News ...
Kentucky Power customers due refunds under proposed settlement
Nov 26, 2024 · Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman and an industry group are asking the state’s utility regulator to approve a settlement with Kentucky Power that would return nearly $17 million to ratepayers. The proposed settlement comes after a hearing earlier this year in which experts hired by ...
Beshear says he's focused on leading 'state I love' even as his ...
Dec 19, 2024 · FRANKFORT — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear says he’s focused on leading Kentucky for the remaining two years and 340-some days of his second term. “I’m seeing a state that I love and that I’m from transformed, and I don’t want to lose today by thinking about tomorrow. It’s just too ...
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Millions of dollars pour in from outside Kentucky to influence …
Oct 31, 2024 · FRANKFORT — More than $16 million will be spent wooing Kentuckians to vote for or against the so-called “school choice” amendment, making it the most expensive election ever over changing Kentucky’s 1891 Constitution.. In final pre-election campaign finance reports filed last week, each side has reported raising roughly $8 million, with those totals sure to go up after post-election ...
Kentuckians say ‘no’ to public funding for private, charter schools
Nov 5, 2024 · LOUISVILLE — A constitutional amendment to allow the Kentucky General Assembly to fund nonpublic schools failed at the ballot box Tuesday. Amendment 2 — which 65 % of voters rejected, according to unofficial results — would have opened a path for the Republican-controlled legislature to allow state dollars to flow to nonpublic schools, such as private or charter schools.
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