Legislators approve Seven Counties contracts amid optimism; Negotiation meeting days away
08/12/2014 06:39 PM
Lawmakers on the contract review committee approved state contracts with Seven Counties citing a new found optimism over talks with the mental health agency paying their liabilities to the pension system. Seven Counties Services has been talking with lawmakers who sit on the interim Government Contract Review Committee after the state dropped a contract with the mental health provider expressing frustration over a bankruptcy ruling allowing the Seven Counties to leave the shakily funded retirement system. Lawmakers want Seven Counties... Read more 
Students in Ft. Thomas to get more choices for lunch as district opts out of federal lunch program
08/12/2014 06:32 PM
FT. THOMAS – As fewer students are purchasing their lunch at schools around the United States because of federally mandated food options, one northern Kentucky school district is opting out of the regulations in the hopes that students will begin purchasing their lunch at school again. According to the National Nutrition Association, 1 million fewer students nationwide are buying school lunches which means less money for school districts. Many believe that federal restrictions placed on what types of foods that school districts... Read more
Paul says president making a "mess" by going around Congress on big issues
08/12/2014 05:27 PM
Kentucky U.S. Senator Rand Paul is not completely against targeted airstrikes in Iraq ordered by President Barack Obama, but he strongly disagrees with the approach the president is taking with action in the region among other things. As tensions continue to rise in Iraq and the United States begins to get involved, the president has ordered targeted airstrikes in the region, as well as the dropping of supplies for Iraqis fighting militant forces. In a speech at the Greater Louisville Inc. luncheon... Read more
Lexington acquiring garbage trucks and buses that run on compressed natural gas
from kward1@herald-leader.com (Karla Ward)
from kward1@herald-leader.com (Karla Ward)
Compressed natural gas is touted as greener and cheaper than diesel fuel, and it's coming to Lexington in new garbage trucks, buses and fueling stations.Click to Continue » [...]
Tue, Aug 12, 2014 10:30:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
Keep those umbrellas close. It's about to start pouring garbage in Kentucky's U.S. Senate race. With 12 weeks to go, a race already largely devoid of meaningful and substantive policy…Click to Continue » [...]
Tue, Aug 12, 2014 8:38:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
Amid a re-election race that increasingly hinges on women's issues, Republican Mitch McConnell urged his U.S. Senate colleagues Tuesday to quickly reauthorize a federal law aimed at speeding up the…Click to Continue » [...]
Tue, Aug 12, 2014 8:15:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
A local businessman who provides high-interest loans to people with bad credit is suing Louisville Metro Councilman Dan Johnson for lack of payment on a $15,000 debt.Gus Goldsmith, owner of Action Loan, wants repayment from Johnson on an $8,000 past due balance that the councilman has refused to pay, according the lawsuit filed Aug. 4 in Jefferson Circuit Court."I’ve asked him to repay and I even texted him," Goldsmith said in an interview with WFPL. "He said to please drop the case." [...]
Tue, Aug 12, 2014 4:33:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
By Jack Brammer jbrammer@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT -- Harrodsburg police officer David Patterson will appear on the Nov. 4 ballot for U.S. Senate in Kentucky as a Libertarian. Patterson, 43, turned in more than 9,100 signatures Monday to the secretary of state's office in hopes of challenging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic nominee Alison Lundergan Grimes, who is Kentucky's secretary of state. At least 5,000 valid signatures of registered voters are needed to get on the Nov. 4 ballot. Grimes' office took about two hours Monday afternoon to determine that Patterson had provided an adequate number of valid signatures. The Libertarian Party in Kentucky has[...]
Mon, Aug 11, 2014 7:19:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
By Jack Brammer jbrammer@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — Kentucky’s new fiscal year is getting off to a positive start. State budget director Jane Driskell reported Monday that Kentucky’s General Fund, which pays for most programs, saw its receipts total $705.9 million in July, a 2.2 percent increase over the same month last year. July was the first month of the state’s new 2015 fiscal year. When the last fiscal year ended June 30, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear had to plug a $91 million shortfall in the state’s $9.5 billion budget after a year of sluggish collections on state income taxes. He did that by dipping into budget accounts [...]
Mon, Aug 11, 2014 6:42:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
Libertarian David Patterson Files 9,100 Signatures To Get Onto Kentucky Ballot For Senate
from Phillip M. Bailey
from Phillip M. Bailey
Libertarian David Patterson filed over 9,100 raw signatures with the Kentucky secretary of state's office Monday in his bid to make the ballot for the U.S. Senate election.Patterson, a 42-year-old police officer who lives in Mercer County, seeks to join Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes and Republican incumbent Mitch McConnell on the November ballot.[...]
Mon, Aug 11, 2014 6:39:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
Miners' Union Chief Wants Mitch McConnell to Explain Wife's Role on Anti-Coal Group
from Phillip M. Bailey
from Phillip M. Bailey
The president of the United Mine Workers of America says Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell needs to explain why his wife joined the board of a group seeking to eliminate coal from the country's energy diet. [...]
Fri, Aug 08, 2014 8:20:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
It wasn't that he praised bailouts, fudged his online résumé or even that he got caught appearing at a pro-cockfighting rally. No, according to Louisville businessman Matt Bevin, the blame for his loss in the May 20 Republican primary to U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell belongs squarely with the voters. "We have increasingly less courage in our country, and that's something we suffer from," Bevin told Politico. "It's disappointing to me not even as much as a candidate but as an American, how apathetic and timid we have become as a nation." Bevin, who is said to be considering a run for [...]
Fri, Aug 08, 2014 1:35:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
"The President is taking necessary steps to protect American personnel and interests from direct threats of terrorist violence in Iraq," Yarmuth said in a statement to WHAS11, "and to prevent an act of genocide by ISIL against the Yazidi people." [...]
Wed, Aug 13, 2014 2:15:40 PM, Continue reading at the source
Republican Sen. Rand Paul says he's never proposed ending U.S. aid payments to Israel, and is immediately confronted by his own budget proposal from 2011 to end such payments to all nations, including Israel. [...]
Wed, Aug 13, 2014 2:15:40 PM, Continue reading at the source
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WHAS11) -- During a Lexington campaign stop with Alison Lundergan Grimes, former President Bill Clinton compliments WHAS11 political editor Joe Arnold's tie. [...]
Wed, Aug 13, 2014 2:15:40 PM, Continue reading at the source
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