Paul declines to address Trump immigration comments, says he won't "be distracted by others"
07/13/2015 06:40 PM
After reiterating his pitch for ways to lift impoverished areas like Louisville’s West End on Monday, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul again declined to discuss controversial remarks by fellow GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump about undocumented immigrants from Mexico. Paul visited the Plymouth Community Renewal Center, where he ate lunch with participants in a summer youth camp before talking with a smaller group of African-American teenagers about civics and issues facing their communities, such as crime and education. Although Paul has stopped at... Read more 
Legislative members of the KTRS work group announced
07/13/2015 06:33 PM
Senate President Robert Stivers and House Speaker Greg Stumbo have announced appointments to the panel tasked with examining funding issues at the Kentucky Teachers’ Retirement System. In a press release Monday, Stivers announced his three picks for the Teachers’ Retirement Work Group: Senate Majority Floor Leader Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown; Sen. Joe Bowen, R-Owensboro; and Sen. Morgan McGarvey, D-Louisville. In a statement, Thayer said that the Senate GOP will seek a solution which combines structural reform “with any additional funding.” “We look... Read more
As components of heroin bill are implemented, lawmakers learn that there is no one size fits all when it comes to recovery
07/13/2015 05:15 PM
ERLANGER – As treatment and services are being implemented as a result of the passage of Senate Bill 192 to combat heroin abuse, the reality is there is no exact science to effectively help recovering addicts. Members of the SB 192 Implementation Oversight Committee meet in northern Kentucky, the epicenter of the heroin problem in the state, to hear from community, medical and law enforcement personnel about their efforts to assist addicts in their recovery. Michele Flowers McCarthy, corporate director of substance... Read more
Needle exchange in Louisville operating the way the law intended, House Judiciary Chair says
07/13/2015 12:47 PM
Needle exchanges sparked controversy when they were debated in the legislature, and now that programs are starting to be put in place they continue to create heartburn for lawmakers. In Louisville the local run needle exchange program has delivered over 1,000 needles, but handed out just hundreds in return. The “free exchange” in Louisville is concerning for GOP leaders, including Senate President Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, who says that is not the way the bill was intended to operate. Stivers says... Read more
Sen. Neal talks racism, Jefferson Davis statue, gun control and mental illness in wake of S.C. killings
07/12/2015 08:04 PM
A nation marked by multiple massacres in recent years is reviewing its history, especially in the south after a racially charged mass murder at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in mid-June. After more than half-a-century the Confederate battle flag was lowered at the South Carolina Capitol grounds on Friday to the cheers of on-lookers. The flag was lowered, furled and taken to a nearby military museum. In Kentucky, a state which chose neutrality during the Civil War, monuments... Read more
Matt Bevin weighs in on county clerks not issuing marriage licenses
07/10/2015 03:35 PM
With an 8 paragraph long statement Republican candidate for governor Matt Bevin is siding with county clerks in their request to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples online. Bevin, who initially expressed disappointment in the U.S. Supreme Court decision allow same-sex couples to be married, said his first thought is that the “government should be out of the marriage business altogether.” “We can comply with the law while protecting our citizens’ rights to freedom of religion simply by separating the religious... Read more
Conway: ‘I’m getting very, very angry’ at feds over inaction on gas anti-trust case - 07/09/2014 06:24 PM
- by Ryan Alessi
Despite urging the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Justice Department to look into gas price gauging in Louisville, Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway said the case that began his first year in office might not be done by the time his second term ends next year. Conway began investigating since 2008 whether the merger of Marathon Oil and Ashland, Inc., in the late 1990s has led to a monopoly in wholesale gasoline distributors in the Louisville area where gas is… Read more
Nick Storm to take over as Pure Politics anchor - 07/09/2014 01:34 PM
- by Ryan Alessi
I am thrilled to announce that Nick Storm, who has served as lead political reporter for Pure Politics for the last two-and-a-half years, will become the next anchor and managing editor of the program effective Thursday. Nick has fully immersed himself in Kentucky politics since joining the team in December 2011 — just in time for Gov. Steve Beshear’s inauguration for a second term. Since then, he has covered the developments in the U.S. Senate race, two special legislative elections,… Read more
Conway’s spending through JACK PAC reveals best hopes and biggest concerns for House Democrats - 07/09/2014 11:54 AM
- by Nick Storm
Just as he began his campaign for governor earlier this summer, Attorney General Jack Conway’s leadership political action committee, JACK PAC, began spreading campaign cash to select Democratic state House members and candidates. Conway and his running mate, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Sannie Overly, have said they didn’t want their campaign in next year’s governor’s race to detract from House Democrats’ efforts this fall to keep control of the chamber, where they hold a 54-46 seat advantage. And it’s… Read more
Legislators revoke Seven Counties’ contract, hint at state takeover in wake of bankruptcy ruling - 07/08/2014 07:02 PM
- by Nick Storm
A legislative committee on Tuesday sent a message to the Seven Counties Services by ending a contract the mental health center has with one of the state’s agencies. The Government Contract Review committee voted not to approve a $3.7 million two -year contract for Seven Counties Services to provide in-home family services to 300 families through the Health Cabinet’s Department of Community Based Services. “I don’t like to disapprove contracts…this is services that can be provided for something and this sends a… Read more
Grimes stands by new ad hitting McConnell on Medicare but does not offer own plan - 07/08/2014 04:19 PM
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes says Kentucky U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell has taken votes to hurt the state’s seniors but bypassed a question Tuesday about what she would do differently. After addressing the International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers (IBEW) District 4 Progress Meeting in Louisville Tuesday, Grimes took questions from reporters on her new ad released prior to the event. When asked about the validity of the $6,000 out-of-pocket increase figure used in the ad, Grimes responded by saying… Read more
Americans for Prosperity — partly funded by Koch brothers — launches Ky. operation, hires Julia Crigler as director - 07/08/2014 11:42 AM
- by Ryan Alessi
The Koch brothers are coming to Kentucky. Well, at least one of the groups they help fund is. And it plans to be in the Bluegrass for a long time. The non-profit conservative policy and advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, which is partially funded by the conservative industrialists Charles and David Koch, has hired Republican strategist Julia Bright Crigler as its state director. Crigler will launch an operation that will have two regional offices and a long-term presence in pushing… Read more
U.S. Senate candidates and outside groups seek to brand each other through new ads - 07/08/2014 10:52 AM
The ads in the U.S. Senate race that many expected would already be flooding Kentucky airwaves are picking up this week with Democratic Alison Lundergan Grimes launching her new approach against U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and an outside group seeking to paint Grimes as elusive to voters. Grimes’ new ad campaign uses questions from Kentuckians to portray McConnell as an out-of-touch Washington politician. In an ad released Tuesday, Grimes sits beside a retired coal miner named Don Disney from Cloverlick in… Read more
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