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Jan 17, 2025 · Trump inauguration moved inside U.S. Capitol amid predictions of Arctic blast BY: Jennifer Shutt - January 17, 2025 WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday he will move his inauguration inside the U.S. Capitol building, instead of holding it on the terrace overlooking the National Mall, citing weather forecasts for frigid temperatures.
'Roadblock to transparency': No prefiled bills await Kentucky ...
Jan 7, 2025 · The loss of prefiled bills is among multiple obstacles to public participation in the lawmaking process detailed by the Kentucky League of Women Voters in an updated report on legislative transparency released last fall. The League has documented an increase in questionable maneuvers used by the legislature to fast-track controversial bills and exclude the public from participating in debates ...
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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.
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.
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The Kentucky Lantern is an independent, nonpartisan, free news service. We’re based in Frankfort a short walk from the Capitol, but all of Kentucky is our beat. We focus on how decisions made in the marble halls of power ripple through the lives of Kentuckians. We bring attention to injustices and hold institutions and officials […]
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 ...
KY legislature convenes Tuesday while state Supreme Court …
Jan 6, 2025 · Facing severe winter weather, Kentucky’s elected officials are postponing some events or trudging ahead to fulfill constitutional requirements. The Kentucky Supreme Court announced Monday afternoon that investitures scheduled this week for incoming Chief Justice Debra Lambert and Justice Pamela ...
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Dec 4, 2024 · Woman alleges Louisville police, dispatchers mishandled 911 call while ex assaulted her for hours BY: Sarah Ladd - January 22, 2025 A Kentucky woman is suing multiple Louisville police officers and emergency dispatchers, alleging they mishandled a 911 call for help — not showing up for hours — while her ex-boyfriend beat and threatened her in her apartment.
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