Senate moves two heroin bills out of committee late Monday
03/24/2015 01:11 AM
FRANKFORT — Seeking to get the ball rolling with the clock winding down on the session, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed two new versions of anti-heroin legislation late Monday night. Pointing to a collapsed agreement with the House, Senate President Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, said with sine die approaching, the Senate was still willing to move a compromise bill to deal with heroin abuse in Kentucky. The Senate amended House Bill 412 with a compromise deal Stivers and others said had... Read more 
Bonding plan for teachers' pension still under consideration as sine die looms
03/24/2015 01:04 AM
FRANKFORT — Conferees cobbling together a plan to shore up the Kentucky Teachers’ Retirement System made little public progress toward an agreement Monday. Lawmakers emerged from a private meeting without a resolution on House Bill 4, but House Speaker Greg Stumbo said Senate conferees left with some proposals, including his pitch to split $3.3 billion in bonds for KTRS while lawmakers study the pension agency, to consider as sine die nears. Stumbo said the state has two options to address the nearly... Read more
Negotiations on heroin bill stall after House conferees reject Senate's sentencing proposal
03/23/2015 07:33 PM
FRANKFORT — Talks on a bill addressing the state’s heroin epidemic have hit familiar a snag after House conferees rejected a potential compromise over the weekend. Rep. John Tilley, co-chairman of the conference committee on House Bill 4, said lawmakers left Friday’s lengthy closed-door meeting at the Capitol and promised to “sleep on” various ideas discussed in private, but House conferees “couldn’t get there” on the Senate’s proposal for stiffer penalties against heroin traffickers. Sentencing guidelines for those caught trafficking heroin have... Read more
Advocates rally for amendment free school supt. selection bill, gas tax freeze
03/23/2015 04:17 PM
FRANKFORT – Two hundred public school students from around the state gathered on the steps of the State Capitol building to show their support for House Bill 236, sponsored by Rep. Derrick Graham which would allow students to be appointed to superintendent search committees. Passage of the bill is in jeopardy due to an amendment added by Sen. C.B. Embry, R-Morgantown, who attached his “transgender bathroom” bill which would require students to use the bathroom of the sex that they were... Read more
Congressman Barr endorses Quarles in GOP primary for Commissioner of Agriculture
03/23/2015 03:25 PM
With less than two months to go before the May 19 primary U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, R-Lexington, is tossing his support behind state Rep. Ryan Quarles who is vying for the GOP nomination for state agriculture commissioner. Quarles, R-Georgetown, faces fellow Republican Rep. Richard Heath, R-Mayfield, who filed in the final days of the filing deadline to run for agriculture commissioner, setting up the primary. In his endorsement Barr said Quarles has “farming in his blood.” “Ryan’s background in agricultural economics and... Read more
Same-sex marriage and the U.S. Supreme Court will be the focus of Tuesday’s University of Louisville Kentucky Author Forum at the Kentucky Center. Attorney David Boies will be interviewed by Jeffrey Toobin of The New Yorker and CNN. Boies was part of the legal team that successfully challenged California’s same-sex marriage ban, Proposition 8. Toobin has written multiple books about the modern-day Supreme Court. In an interview with WFPL, Toobin weighed in on a looming decision from the nation’s highest court on cases from Kentucky and three other states that are expected to settle the issue of same-sex marriage nationwide. Activists, attorneys and plaintiffs in the [...]
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WASHINGTON — On Monday House Republicans targeted a key element of President Barack Obama’s strategy for fighting climate change, releasing a bill to delay the Obama administration’s plan to limit…Click to Continue » [...]
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Ashlie Stevens | wfpl.org Finnigan Production’s eighth annual theatre festival is undergoing both a change of name and direction, a move Finnigan artistic director Brian Walker said he hopes will offer other Louisville playwrights the opportunity to locally workshop their productions. This year’s Finnigan’s Festival of Derby City Playwrights, formerly the Festival of Funky Fresh Fun, will showcase the works of the first cohort of the Derby City Playwrights, a group of Louisville writers facilitated by Walker who are dedicated to the development of “locally grown plays.” “It’s hard because in the past Louisville playwrights have had to go outside the community to get [...]
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As temperatures begin to climb this spring, the number of highway work crews on Kentucky’s roads will also increase. Proper attention to the road remains the key to safe travels, a highway official says. Monday marks the beginning of Work Zone Awareness Week in the state. The number of fatalities in highway work zones in Kentucky has dropped the last three years, but crashes have significantly increased. State Transportation Regional Safety Administrator Ronnie Johnson said too many drivers treat marked portions of the roadway like any other stretch of highway. “Folks are just not paying good attention,” said Johnson. “They go through work zones [...]
Mon, Mar 23, 2015 9:02:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
Students rally for stalled bill that would give them voice in superintendent selections
from vhoneycutt@herald-leader.com (Valarie Honeycutt Spears)
from vhoneycutt@herald-leader.com (Valarie Honeycutt Spears)
Andrew Brennen had a message for the Kentucky Senate Monday as he stood among a few hundred students and supporters in Frankfort who turned out to voice support for putting…Click to Continue » [...]
Mon, Mar 23, 2015 8:59:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
Kentucky Senate panel offers choice of 2 heroin bills as session goes down to wire
from jbrammer@herald-leader.com (Jack Brammer and John Cheves)
from jbrammer@herald-leader.com (Jack Brammer and John Cheves)
With time running out on this year's lawmaking session, a Senate committee late Monday approved two bills designed to curb the state's heroin epidemic, hoping the House would accept one…Click to Continue » [...]
Mon, Mar 23, 2015 7:33:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
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