With postsecondary education attainment tied to funding, CPE President Bob King calls for additional money
06/21/2015 02:30 PM
With “the steady of erosion” of state funding for Kentucky’s public colleges and universities since the recession, Bob King, president of the Council on Postsecondary Education, says the state’s education achievement stats have dropped dramatically. “When the legislature and governor were prepared and did invest in education the universities delivered,” King said, pointing to higher education reforms put in place in 1997 and later investments made by the legislature in the early 2000s. As a result of the reforms and... Read more 
New committee could give new voice to 911 funding issue, Rep. King says
06/20/2015 02:26 PM
With a new special House committee on technology in place, Rep. Martha Jane King will have an avenue to present legislation she’s championed recently on 911 funding for local governments. King, chairwoman of the newly impaneled House Special Committee on Advanced Communications and Information Technology, said her bill to shore up funding for emergency 911 services. In her western district alone, the Lewisburg Democrat said Logan and Todd county fiscal courts subsidized their 911 programs by $750,000 last year. HB 418,... Read more
First joint appearance lacks debate feel, but gubernatorial hopefuls continue public sparring on taxes, plans
06/19/2015 09:22 PM
The first “debate” between Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway and Republican gubernatorial nominee Matt Bevin Friday wasn’t an exchange of ideas, but rather a pair of broad speeches limited to 15 minutes with only Bevin, by virtue of speaking last, given an opportunity at rebuttal. The two shared the stage for the first time as their parties’ nominees at the Kentucky County Judge-Executive Association/Kentucky Magistrates and Commissioners Association Joint Summer Conference at the Galt House in Louisville. Their pre-lunch remarks drew... Read more
Candidates for governor, attorney general react to South Carolina killings
06/19/2015 04:32 PM
This week a young man ambushed and killed nine African-Americans in an historic church in Charleston, S.C., and as the country comes to grips with the latest tragedy, Pure Politics asked Kentucky gubernatorial and attorney general hopefuls how leaders in those offices can help stop the violence. The accused, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, is in police custody for his actions as President Barack Obama again tries to console a nation in the face of another mass shooting, which some are describing... Read more
Rep. Martha Jane King hopeful special House panel on technology paves the way for statutory committee on subject
06/19/2015 09:02 AM
State Rep. Martha Jane King has been clamoring for a technology-focused legislative committee since joining the General Assembly in 2009, saying such a panel could have eased the path for bills on the deregulation of landline telephone service and reformulating how much cellular telephone users pay in monthly 911 surcharges. The Lewisburg Democrat will get that opportunity on Tuesday when she gavels in a special House panel on advanced communications and information technology. “Technology is like any other subject matter,” King said... Read more
An Indiana-based renewable energy company has begun trying to sell West Louisville residents on a proposal to build two biofuel sites in the area. It’s not going well. Nature’s Methane’s proposed plant would convert organic waste into methane —a natural gas—on Maple Street. West Louisville residents are expressing concerns that the plant would bring odor, health risks and unsightly infrastructure to the neighborhood. They also question why the plant must be built in such a densely populated area. But company officials say the plant works best if it’s in a densely populated area because it’s closer to the source of organic feed. The company’s representatives say [...]
Mon, Jun 22, 2015 10:49:00 AM, Continue reading at the source
The leader of a white supremacist group cited by Charleston church murder suspect Dylann Roof made $65,000 in donations to Republicans, including several to Republican presidential candidates, The Guardian newspaper…Click to Continue » [...]
Mon, Jun 22, 2015 5:39:00 AM, Continue reading at the source
Under certain scenarios, a large percentage of Americans could subsist on a diet made up of mostly local food, according to a new study. The study out of the University of California Merced measured the areas of the country with available farmland, calculated how productive the farmland is and where people live. Throughout most of the country—including Kentucky—more than 80 percent of the population could be fed a balanced diet from food that could theoretically be grown within 50 miles. “What was surprising was how much capacity still exists,” said Elliott Campbell, a professor at UC Merced and one of the study’s [...]
Sun, Jun 21, 2015 12:17:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
Drug that was supposed to stem Kentucky's heroin epidemic creates a whole new problem
from mmeehan1@herald-leader.com (Mary Meehan)
from mmeehan1@herald-leader.com (Mary Meehan)
Kentucky doctors have new restrictions for prescribing Suboxone after efforts to curb pill mills created a new cash-for-pills market and a street trade for the drug designed to safely wean…Click to Continue » [...]
Sat, Jun 20, 2015 10:51:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president in 2012, called for the immediate removal of the Confederate battle flag from outside the South Carolina Statehouse, scrambling the 2016 GOP presidential…Click to Continue » [...]
Sat, Jun 20, 2015 7:05:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
As we celebrate Juneteenth this weekend, it’s with the impossible-to-ignore knowledge of how much work the United States still has to do to achieve safety and true equality for all its citizens. We recorded this show before a white supremacist named Dylann Roof opened fire on a Bible study group at historically black Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina. It was before many in the mainstream media assumed he was mentally ill. It was before Roof’s roommate said he’d been planning the attack for six months, but no one tried to stop him. It was before Roof was taken into [...]
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