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Jan 6, 2025 · Trump’s election as president certified by Congress, four years after Capitol attack BY: Ashley Murray, Ariana Figueroa and Jennifer Shutt - January 6, 2025 WASHINGTON — Lawmakers certified President-elect Donald Trump’s win Monday in a smooth process that four years ago was disrupted by a violent mob of Trump supporters bent on stopping Congress from formally declaring President Joe ...
Spending to lobby Kentucky lawmakers hits a new high
2 days ago · FRANKFORT, Ky. – Health industry groups, business organizations and electric utilities helped drive spending on lobbying the Kentucky General Assembly to a record $28.1 million in 2024. Groups that lobby the legislature were required to file their last spending reports on Wednesday. A few groups ...
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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.
Universities say expanding their missions would meet KY needs.
2 days ago · Kentucky could have two new medical schools — one for people, one for animals — along with more doctoral programs under Republican-backed bills filed in the House. Deloitte also studied a proposal by Kentucky State University to offer a doctoral program in Integrated Agroecology and Sustainable ...
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 ...
Not total déjà vu, but Kentuckians can expect another income tax cut
Jan 6, 2025 · Kentucky General Fund revenue — which grows on average about 3% in normal times — grew by 10.9% in 2020-21 and by 14.6% in 2021-22. Those were by far the strongest growth rates since 1991 when revenues were boosted by hikes in the income and sales taxes to fund the Kentucky Education Reform Act.
Kentucky’s largest utility says it’s ready for extreme cold. Others ...
Jan 3, 2025 · Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities — the state’s largest utility, serving about 1.3 million customers — is prepared to make sure failures of its fossil fuel-fired power plants in 2022 don’t happen again, a spokesman for the utility said.
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 ...
Women will make up majority of Kentucky Supreme Court for first …
Nov 11, 2024 · Kentucky’s next Supreme Court is shaping up to be a historic one for women. Deputy Chief Justice Debra Hembree Lambert will become Kentucky’s chief justice in January.