Get a crash cart, stat: Status update on bills heading into lawmakers' last full week of work
03/01/2015 03:00 PM
Only a fraction of the 757 bills filed in this year’s short session have a shot to become law as legislators enter their final full week of work. The House and Senate have sent a combined 189 pieces of legislation to the other chamber thus far, but only one item, a resolution adjourning the first part of the session in January and convening the second in February, has cleared both chambers. That will change this week with a few bills, such... Read more 
Rand Paul wins third straight CPAC straw poll
02/28/2015 05:58 PM
For a third straight year in a row U.S. Sen. Rand Paul won the Conservative Political Action Conference presidential preference poll. The 3,000 libertarian-leaning young activists had Paul coming out on top of the crowded potential field of Republican candidates. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker came in second place in the poll, according to the Washington Times Paul said he was “humbled by the enthusiastic support and encouragement” he received at CPAC. “Our party is filled with constitutional conservatives who have... Read more
House passes bill revamping personnel practices at the Legislative Research Commission
02/27/2015 06:59 PM
FRANKFORT — A bill mandating the Legislative Research Commission draft comprehensive personnel policies cleared the state House on a 55-26 vote Friday. The legislation comes after top lawmakers decided to release the National Conference of State Legislatures’ draft audit of the LRC last month. The report, which has not been finalized, detailed a lax personnel system and low morale within the agency’s nonpartisan staff. Rep. James Kay, sponsor of House Bill 262, said many of the complaints found in the draft... Read more
Debt ceiling and transgender bills pass Senate
02/27/2015 04:37 PM
FRANKFORT – The Kentucky state Senate passed bills on Friday that would set the debt ceiling at 6 percent and require public school students to use the restrooms of the sex that they were born. Senate Bill 94, sponsored by Sen. Joe Bowen, R-Owensboro, would cap the state’s debt at 6 percent of revenue and would direct any savings realized in drawing down the state’s indebtedness to the underfunded Kentucky Employees Retirement System for non-hazardous state workers. KERS has just 21... Read more
At CPAC Paul says he will soon unveil "largest tax cut in American history"
02/27/2015 03:06 PM
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul’s rock-star-like status was on full display Friday, eliciting cheers from the attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. Paul, R-Ky., delivered a nearly 20-minute speech often interrupted by cheers and chants from the young libertarian-leaning crowd. In his speech Paul delivered a call to arms for lovers of liberty to join his vision and “reclaim our birthright.” During his remarks, Paul cited the Constitution — reminding the crowd their rights cannot be disparaged —... Read more
The Mid-Kentucky Presbytery as voted this weekend to approve a same-sex marriage amendment to the national church’s constitution. The presbytery includes more than 50 congregations from Kentucky. Its vote on Saturday will count as just one of 172 presbyteries that make up Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), which is headquartered in Louisville. Representatives from presbyteries across the country are voting whether to rewrite language in the national church’s constitution that would recognize love as being between two people instead of between a man and a woman. A majority of the presbyteries that have already voted have supported the amendment. Those include the Presbytery of Transylvania in [...]
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The Louisville-based Brown-Forman Corporation has been awarded an award for its ambitious greenhouse gas reductions by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA presented the company with a 2015 Climate Leadership Award in Arlington, Virginia, last week. In 2010, the alcohol producer set a goal to reduce the company’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent per unit of production by 2020. But by 2013, Brown-Forman had already exceeded that goal, reducing emissions by 46 percent. So, Environmental Health and Safety Director Andy Battjes said the company set another goal. “And so the new goal is from a new baseline of 2012, a 15 [...]
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WFPL is proud to partner with Steve Paradis, Summer Auerbach and Ivor Chodkowski in the launch of the second season of Mighty Fine Farm & Food. Every week, you’ll hear local and national guests in conversation about food, farming and sustainability. Check out the latest episodes or subscribe to the podcast. [...]
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Two months into full Republican control of Congress, GOP leaders are struggling to demonstrate they really are in charge.Click to Continue » [...]
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The Republican Party's leading presidential contenders on Friday promised conservative activists they would pursue aggressive military action to prevent the spread of global terrorism, including a renewed use of ground…Click to Continue » [...]
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