Andy Beshear releases plan to combat drug abuse in Kentucky
10/05/2015 09:33 PM
Democratic candidate for attorney general Andy Beshear is zeroing in on drug policy with a three step plan to level off drug addiction in the commonwealth. Beshear’s plan considers a three-pronged approach at fighting drug abuse in the state: enforcement, treatment and education. Enforcement As part one of his plan, Beshear says that the General Assembly needs to revise drug laws so law enforcement can target traffickers of heroin, meth and “other dangerous drugs.” In that vein the state should further target... Read more 
As Trans Pacific Partnership deal announced GOP candidate for ag commish warns of repercussions
10/05/2015 04:59 PM
On Monday the United States and 11 other nations announced the largest regional trade deal in history which would connect 40 percent of the world’s economy, from Canada to Japan and Australia. However, the Trans-Pacific Partnership faces a rigorous road of approval or disapproval in Congress, and concerns back in Kentucky. The full text of the TPP will not be available for as long as a month, according to the New York Times but as details of the deal... Read more
Kentucky's new education chief will be paid $240,000 annually under a four-year contract approved Tuesday morning. Stephen L. Pruitt will begin his new job as the state's education commissioner on…Click to Continue » [...]
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U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Louisville, is predicting low voter turnout for March’s Republican presidential caucus next year. Yarmuth expects turnout will be “pretty pathetic” because voters in the state have no history with caucuses. “I think it is going to be very low turnout because I don’t think most people understand it. You really only have a few months to educate all the Republicans in the state as to what they need to do to have a say,” he said Monday. The caucus was created to allow Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, to run for both the White House and the Senate next year. Paul [...]
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This is Part 2 of KyCIR’s “Trouble Behind Bars” series. Read Part 1. Danny Ray Burden fell asleep in mid-sentence as he was booked into the Grant County jail, toppling over on the bench where he sat. Prodded awake, he coughed, shook and pleaded for emergency medical attention. A blood test showed that the 41-year-old diabetic badly needed insulin, and a doctor ordered it. But Burden never received the drug. Instead, deputies put him in a cell, where they found Burden unconscious just three hours after he had entered the jail on March 27, 2013. He died a week later. Burden’s relatively minor crime [...]
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Already home to one of the most underfunded public pension plans in the nation, Kentucky Retirement Systems is losing further ground through its investment choices. The retirement plan for state, city and county workers and retirees in Kentucky posted a puny 2 percent return on the $11.5 billion pension portion of its overall investment portfolio in the fiscal year that ended June 30. That compared to a 7.4 percent return for the Standard & Poor’s 500 index of large U.S. stocks. Even 10-year Treasury notes are yielding 2 percent. Perhaps more eye-opening, though, the KRS return was much lower than that of [...]
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A months-long investigation by KyCIR found that numerous Kentucky jail inmates have died or been injured because officials at all levels of government failed to ensure their health and safety.Click to Continue » [...]
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