Republican attorney general candidate Whitney Westerfield on RAGA exit, campaign finance, experience and initiatives
10/19/2015 06:29 PM
With two weeks until the Election Republican candidate for attorney general Whitney Westerfield finds himself low on campaign cash and currently without the support of outside help, but he still has big plans for the future of Kentucky and his campaign. Westerfield, a state Senator from Hopkinsville, is polling relatively even with Democratic opponent Andy Beshear, the son of Gov. Steve Beshear, but the Republican nominee could be facing his toughest weeks in the Election with the disappearance of a... Read more 
“Being an old fossil, I’m not entirely sure what a podcast is, but I’m going to do them anyway.” And in that self-deferential fashion, public radio legend Bob Edwards explains the next chapter in his career. Last month, his two regular radio shows — The Bob Edwards Show on SiriusXM and PRI’s Bob Edwards Weekend — came to an end. Now, he’s turning to the crowd-funding model to start his next endeavor, which is tantalizingly open-ended. “We’re going to have conversations and interviews about all manners of things … we might talk a lot about national parks, and that will be fun, skipping around [...]
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Louisville leaders are looking to increase the city’s share of high-paying tech jobs, but wages present a sticky issue for economic development officials. Wages here are about 10 percent below the national median, said Kent Oyler, president and CEO of Greater Louisville Inc., the city’s chamber of commerce. Higher wages would help the city attract and retain skilled workers, and one way to raise them would be to bring in better-paying jobs. It’s not as chicken-or-the-egg as it sounds. In recent years, only about 40 percent of the available jobs in the metro area paid above a living wage (about $36,700 for a family of four), according to a 2013 Greater Louisville [...]
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Urging from Sen. Mitch McConnell's, combined with internal polling that led the Republican Governors Association to think the Kentucky governor's race is still winnable, are behind the group's return. Over…Click to Continue » [...]
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Georgetown Toyota plant debuts new Lexus line with 3,000 employees, Kentucky officials
from ctruman@herald-leader.com (Cheryl Truman)
from ctruman@herald-leader.com (Cheryl Truman)
At Monday's ceremony, Gov. Steve Beshear said the Toyota plant's location in Scott County nearly 30 years ago triggered ripples of economic prosperity around Kentucky. The state is now the…Click to Continue » [...]
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More than 16,000 Kentucky children gained health care coverage in the first year of the federal Affordable Care Act, according to a report released Monday. The analysis shows that the uninsured rate for Kentucky children dropped to 4.3 percent in 2014. In 2013, the uninsured rate for children in Kentucky was 5.9 percent. The report was released by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky and State Health Access Data Assistance Center, a health policy research institute at the University of Minnesota. The report looked at the two main mechanisms that have had the most impact on Kentucky children under the ACA: financial assistance for families purchasing [...]
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Democrat Sannie Overly promised a Jack Conway administration would spend more money on public preschool programs while Republican Jenean Hampton said it was a "non-issue" for Matt Bevin during a…Click to Continue » [...]
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