Attorney General Andy Beshear says Gov. Bevin's decision to end kynect 'bad deal' for consumers
01/12/2016 07:48 PM
Attorney General Andy Beshear, D-Kentucky, whose father former Gov. Steve Beshear implemented kynect and the expansion of Medicaid in Kentucky, is now watching as Republican Gov. Matt Bevin dismantles that legacy. In an interview with Pure Politics, Beshear said the move to shut down Kentucky’s health-care delivery website is bad policy and bad for the people of Kentucky. “I think this move, if they stay with it, is really bad policy,” Beshear said. “As the attorney general I am the... Read more 
Two alcohol sales related bills clear Senate committee
01/12/2016 02:33 PM
FRANKFORT – A pair of bills related to alcohol sales in the Commonwealth of Kentucky passed out of the Senate Committee on Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations on Tuesday. Senate Bill 12 allows for the Sunday sale of alcohol before 1:00pm during events at Kentucky Speedway. Kentucky Speedway President Mark Simendinger said that the tracks top NASCAR event,the Quaker State 400 is usually scheduled on Saturday night in July, but if weather were to force a postponement, it would have to be... Read more
Senate budget committee sets up bill repealing prevailing wage for school construction for floor vote
01/12/2016 01:22 PM
FRANKFORT — Legislation exempting public school projects from the state’s prevailing wage law cleared the Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee in a 10-1 vote Tuesday. Senate Bill 9, sponsored by Sen. Wil Schroder, is one of the GOP-controlled Senate’s priority bills in this year’s legislative session but faces an unlikely future if it reaches the Democrat-led House. Sen. Morgan McGarvey, D-Louisville, was the lone dissenting vote. Schroder, noting that the state had previously exempted school projects from the prevailing wage law from... Read more
Rand Paul will skip Fox Business News debate after being relegated to undercard
01/11/2016 09:43 PM
Kentucky junior U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is boycotting Thursday night’s Fox Business News debate after being pushed from the main stage. Paul’s drop to the undercard debate marks the first time during the campaign the Kentucky Republican has failed to take the main debate stage. Speaking with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Monday, Paul said he would not take part in the debate. “I won’t participate in anything that’s not first tier because we have a first-tier campaign,” Paul said. Paul... Read more
Monday marks anticlimatic day in House after Hoover's hints at "historic" changes
01/11/2016 06:38 PM
FRANKFORT — After teasing a potentially historic day in the state’s House of Representatives during a speech last week, House Minority Floor Leader Jeff Hoover could only watch from his seat as business progressed as usual on a typical Monday in the chamber. No coups. No defections from disenfranchised Democrats to the GOP caucus. No departures from majority caucus members for higher-paying executive- or judicial-branch jobs. According to House Speaker Greg Stumbo, Hoover made a bit of history by adding another day... Read more
Kentucky 'Smart on Crime' coalition ready to engage legislature on felony expungement legislation
01/11/2016 03:51 PM
A group of unlikely allies is coming together to shape criminal justice legislation during the 2016 legislative session. The newly formed group, which will hold a press conference later this week in Frankfort, will begin by pushing legislation aimed at removing a felony conviction for low level, class D non-violent felons five years after the completion of their sentences. Russell Coleman, who is a lawyer with Frost, Brown, Todd, and former senior advisor and legal counsel to U.S. Senate Majority Leader... Read more
Reps. Gooch, Butler embracing new party in first week of session after defecting from Democrats
01/10/2016 03:06 PM
A week into their first legislative session after leaving the Kentucky Democratic Party, Republican Reps. Denny Butler and Jim Gooch admit they’re still getting acquainted with life in the minority caucus. While their defections helped shrink the House’s Democratic majority to 50-46 and drew swift rebukes from House Speaker Greg Stumbo, who has said the KDP is exploring legal action against the two for defrauding the party, both say their former rank-and-file Democratic colleagues have treated them cordially thus far. They... Read more
Kentucky Democrats looking for new chairman with resignation of Patrick Hughes
01/09/2016 03:36 PM
The Kentucky Democratic Party is searching for a new chairman after current leader Patrick Hughes announced his plans to resign late Friday. The move comes with the party reeling after winning two of the state’s seven constitutional offices in the fall election cycle and the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives slipping to 50-46, with House Minority Floor Leader Jeff Hoover saying this week that Monday could be a “historic” day in the chamber. Hughes, in an email to state Democrats,... Read more
Speculation mounts on Hoover's hint of a "historic" Monday in the state House
01/08/2016 09:54 PM
FRANKFORT — Speculation on House Minority Floor Leader Jeff Hoover’s remarks that Monday could be an historic day in the House of Representatives was rampant at the Capitol on Friday. House Speaker Greg Stumbo, who found himself a repeated punchline in absentia at Thursday’s Kentucky Chamber of Commerce dinner, left presiding duties to House Speaker Pro Tem Jody Richards, D-Bowling Green, while traveling to Florida for work through his law firm, Morgan & Morgan. House GOP members remained mum on exactly what... Read more
Senate President sees potential for early action on pro-life bills
01/08/2016 02:49 PM
FRANKFORT – Senate President Robert Stivers, R-Manchester believes that the Senate’s pro-life bills, Senate Bill 4, Senate Bill 7, and Senate Bill 25 will be the first of the priority bills which will come to the floor. SB 4 is known as the “Informed Consent” bill, and requires women seeking an abortion to have a face-to-face, in person consultation with a physician 24 hours prior to the procedure. SB 7 would prohibit any non-Medicaid state tax dollars from funding Planned... Read more
It was perhaps fitting that the most memorable passage of President Obama’s final State of the Union speech should come near its end. After nearly an hour on the podium, Obama paused and slipped into a mode more suited to a pulpit. In the next few minutes, the president tried to address the state not of the American union but of American politics. “Democracy grinds to a halt without a willingness to compromise,” said the president. “Or when even basic facts are contested, and we listen only to those who agree with us. Our public life withers when only the most extreme [...]
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St. Matthews City Council members are distancing themselves from that city’s police department claim that juvenile crime is spiking in the Louisville suburb. Soon after a widely publicized disturbance on Dec. 26 at Mall St. Matthews, St. Matthews Police asserted that crime by juveniles had been increasing. The day after Christmas, police reported “thousands” of teens at the mall causing disturbances. Although no arrests, damages or thefts were initially reported, St. Matthews Police called the event a “riot” and mall operators shut down the facility an hour early. The police description of the event has been disputed, and police significantly lowered their estimates of how [...]
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No production of a show like “Peter Pan” or “Mary Poppins” would be complete without the actors magically flying through the air. But the system that makes this possible is anything but magical. You have to do more than “think lovely thoughts” to get off the ground. There are only a handful of companies in the U.S. that provide theatrical flying effects, and one of them is located in Louisville. I recently visited ZFX Flying Effects, located in an industrial area just north of Churchill Downs, to learn about what they do and to take a turn in the air myself. [...]
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