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Democrats made their final impassioned pleas against the tough-on-crime legislation as it made final passage through the Kentucky General Assembly, until Republicans moved to limit debate.
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Kentucky Senate GOP backtracks after citing retracted COVID paper to support ban on vaccine mandatesResearch shows COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective. But Kentucky Senate Republicans falsely suggested they aren’t while promoting a ban on vaccine mandates this week.
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No injuries have been reported but fire investigators with the BGFD will lead are working to determine the cause of the blaze
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A bill advancing through the state legislature would create a system and potentially build a new facility for “high acuity” children with extreme levels of aggression or violent behavior.
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Legislation to amend the Kentucky Open Records Act cleared a Senate committee despite bipartisan criticism that it would undermine government transparency, though a controversial part of the bill was rejected.
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Several hundred protesters gathered outside before and during the event. Rittenhouse spoke for roughly 20 minutes recounting the story of how he killed two people and wounded a third at the Black Lives Matter Protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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A Black University of Louisville student says a Frankfort lobbyist acting in a personal capacity misrepresented a statement from her under oath to support anti-DEI legislation.
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A GOP lawmaker believes his bill to move up the licensing timeline for medical cannabis businesses in Kentucky will pass into law before the end of the session.
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Kyle Rittenhouse will be the guest speaker of the WKU chapter of Turning Point USA, a right-wing national organization. His visit to WKU has been criticized by a WKU faculty, students, student organizations; civil rights groups and community members.
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The committee gave its approval to a version of Senate Bill 2, a school safety bill, which included an amendment from Republican Rep. Josh Calloway of Irvington. Calloway’s amendment would add licensed pastoral counselors to the list of personnel that can form part of a school’s mental health services team.
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Governor Andy Beshear’s newly-formed political action committee, In This Together, has released its first round of endorsements. The list includes candidates running for federal and state offices, including one contest in his home state of Kentucky.
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The Kentucky Legislature’s “momnibus” bill wasn’t controversial. But a new version of it incorporates a different proposal Democrats walked out over earlier this month.
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The budget bills outline $33 billion of state government spending over the next two years, with Republicans lauding it as a historic investment in Kentucky education and Democrats criticizing it as falling too short.
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House Bill 367, which is currently stalled in the Kentucky Senate, would make it harder for residents to qualify for SNAP benefits. An opponent says it could affect farmers’ businesses and livelihoods.
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Kentucky's next juvenile justice commissioner vowed Thursday to focus on efforts to reduce youth detention rates as he prepares to take the helm of an agency that has been plagued by problems.
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A superintendent from Eastern Kentucky will become the state’s next education commissioner. The appointment of Robbie Fletcher was approved on Thursday in a special meeting of the Kentucky Board of Education.
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A former Eastern Kentucky coal mine is being revived into a storage facility that creates hydroelectric power. Gov. Andy Beshear joined officials on Thursday from the U.S. Department of Energy to announce the project in Bell County.
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