Democratic leaders to meet next week to talk future of state party, Stumbo says
11/07/2015 05:39 PM
FRANKFORT — His party in flux after Republicans won five of seven constitutional offices in this week’s elections, House Speaker Greg Stumbo said Friday Democratic leaders will discuss the Kentucky Democratic Party’s future sometime next week. Stumbo said Friday that based on events following former Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s election in 2003, Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway’s pick for KDP chairman, Patrick Hughes, may leave the post “at some point in the short future.” Conway lost to Republican Gov.-elect Matt Bevin by 9... Read more 
Removing clerks' names from marriage licenses will be among top priorities of Gov.-elect Matt Bevin
11/06/2015 08:07 PM
FRANKFORT — Republican Gov.-elect Matt Bevin plans to make marriage licensing one of his first priorities after his inauguration Dec. 8, pledging Friday to take executive action to strip county clerks’ names from the documents. Bevin spoke to the media in the Capitol Rotunda in his first post-election news conference, where he reiterated his plan to shutter Kentucky’s health insurance exchange, kynect, as well as his stance against releasing his tax returns. The state’s next governor spent much of his day at... Read more
Criminal defense attorney calls for lighter sentences for some non violent crimes
11/06/2015 04:09 PM
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS – An advocate representing criminal defense lawyers says that he would like to see lighter prison sentences for “non-violent” offenses because Kentucky’s prison population is swelling, and costing the commonwealth up to $500 million per year. Ernie Lewis, of the Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, told members of the Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary at Northern Kentucky University on Friday that the state is spending more on incarceration than over before with little to no change in the... Read more
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz enters Kentucky's GOP presidential caucus, becoming third candidate to file
11/06/2015 03:06 PM
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is the third presidential candidate to file for Kentucky’s March 5 caucus, formally entering the contest on Thursday. Republican Party of Kentucky Executive Director Mike Biagi said Friday that Cruz, R-Texas, paid the $15,000 filing fee, joining former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and New York real estate mogul Donald Trump as the only GOP presidential candidates in the caucus. Biagi said he’s happy to see candidates begin making plans for Kentucky’s caucus and expects more to come as... Read more
Last month, during a visit to Louisville, former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood stopped by the WFPL studio to talk transportation and infrastructure planning. LaHood headed the federal Department of Transportation from 2009 to 2013 under President Barack Obama. Prior to that, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Illinois’ 18th District as a Republican. Today he serves as co-chair of the national nonpartisan coalition Building America’s Future. LaHood advocates for an increase in the gas tax to support current and future roadway needs, and stresses that cities across America should prioritize infrastructure that supports multi-modal transportation. “I know this region is car-centric, most of the country is, but there [...]
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Part I of a two-part investigation. Acrid smoke blanketed a neighborhood off Dixie Highway in Southwest Louisville on an unseasonably warm fall day last November. For more than 24 hours, a 30-foot-tall pile of tires burned at Liberty Tire, a tire recycling center on Bohannon Avenue. Those living within a mile of the site were urged to shelter in place. From his command post a thousand feet away, Lt. Col. Brian Morgan of the Pleasure Ridge Park Fire District remembered fighting the fire into the wee hours of the morning. “At one point you could see the flames,” he said, though later only [...]
Mon, Nov 09, 2015 12:03:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
In the next year, road crews will build a path specifically for bikes and pedestrians alongside the busy Watterson Trail in Jeffersontown. The path will measure nearly a mile and run from Stony Brook Drive to Mulberry Row Lane. Outgoing Gov. Steve Beshear announced last week that the path would be funded, in part, by about $1 million in federal congestion-mitigation funds. The City of Jeffersontown will contribute the remaining 20 percent of the cost, Mayor Bill Dieruf said. “It connects the city to the outer parts and brings people into our city in a safe way,” Dieruf said. But the path seems to be more of [...]
Mon, Nov 09, 2015 10:55:00 AM, Continue reading at the source
Fayette school superintendent invites Bevin to visit before deciding on charter schools
from vhoneycutt@herald-leader.com (Valarie Honeycutt Spears)
from vhoneycutt@herald-leader.com (Valarie Honeycutt Spears)
Superintendent Manny Caulk, who said he had experience in other districts with creating and managing charter schools, said in an interview, "I don't think charters are the answer here in…Click to Continue » [...]
Mon, Nov 09, 2015 12:02:00 AM, Continue reading at the source
LOUISVILLE — Blair Wilson walked into a storefront at a Louisville mall. An hour later, she walked out with Medicaid coverage for herself and her father, who lost his insurance…Click to Continue » [...]
Sun, Nov 08, 2015 12:03:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
While the presidential campaign commands the public's attention, political parties and financial contributors are quietly preparing for another less glitzy yet significant set of elections a year from now —Click to Continue » [...]
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