Supporters urge action on low-level felony expungement legislation this session
01/06/2016 11:02 PM
FRANKFORT — Rebecca Collett hasn’t abused mind- or mood-altering drugs in seven years, yet a felony conviction for trafficking at age 20 has haunted her as she tried to piece her life together. The mother of two said she could only find employment at McDonald’s with her class D felony record, and she was denied entry in subsidized housing and colleges before she was finally admitted to the University of Louisville, where she will soon earn a master’s degree in social... Read more 
McConnell: North Korea is problem without a solution; offers Obama advice on ISIS
01/06/2016 09:29 PM
LEXINGTON — With increasingly aggressive actions abroad, politicians are searching for answers, but in some cases those answers are as complicated and uncertain as the times. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered his advice on Wednesday to President Barack Obama in confronting Islamic extremists in the Middle East, but when it comes to international posturing from North Korea, he conceded that the answers are not that simple. On Wednesday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told his countrymen that... Read more
Education reform becomes number one priority for Senate in 2016
01/06/2016 06:42 PM
FRANKFORT – Legislation which would create new recurring standards and assessment review structure in assessing Kentucky’s public schools is the top priority legislation for the Kentucky Senate in 2016. Senate Bill 1, sponsored by Sen. Mike Wilson, R-Bowling Green, calls for an independent third party selected by the Kentucky Department of Education to collect public comments in core subject areas, via a website set up by the Kentucky Board of Education. The website would ensure the public’s assistance in reviewing and... Read more
McConnell, Bevin say political changes on the horizon for Democrat-led House
01/06/2016 05:18 PM
FRANKFORT — Two Kentucky Republicans who won lopsided victories over their Democratic opponents — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Gov. Matt Bevin — predicted Wednesday that the last southern legislative chamber in Democratic hands would soon come under GOP control. McConnell, who met with Bevin privately in the governor’s Capitol office, called the political outcome “inevitable, and Bevin said Republicans would triumph in the upcoming election cycle. “It is a matter of time,” Bevin said. “It’s a function of when... Read more
Louisville Metro government has reached an agreement with an outside analyst to study potential sites for a new professional soccer stadium. The firm, Convention Sports and Leisure, will examine four potential sites to determine if constructing a soccer stadium would be a good investment for Louisville. Specifics of where those sites are, exactly, is not yet known, said Jeff Mosley, a deputy director of Louisville Forward. “We’ll know when we know,” he said. “We’re not going to tip our hand on a lot of this stuff because then the property could skyrocket. You could have people trying to buy up land and sell it to the [...]
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The priority bills of the Kentucky state Senate’s Republican majority include several familiar policies: right-to-work, repealing the prevailing wage and enacting medical review panels. Senate Republican leaders announced on Wednesday the bills they’ll focus on passing during the 2016 legislative session, which began Tuesday. Their top goal is passage of a bill that would reform the state’s education standards. The caucus also introduced several bills in response to events that turned conservative heads over the past year. The Republican Senate will push one bill that would prohibit non-Medicaid state tax dollars from funding Planned Parenthood, another that would prohibit the sale of fetal [...]
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Kentucky Opera is going back to the classics for its 2016-17 season, the company announced Wednesday. Two of the most beloved, crowd-pleasing operas in the repertoire — both with a Japanese theme — will be presented alongside a lesser-known Mozart work that showcases vocal expertise. Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” will lead off the season, sung in Italian with English supertitles. The story of an American sailor’s doomed love affair with a Japanese girl premiered at Milan’s La Scala in 1904. “The Abduction from the Seraglio” is a relatively early Mozart opera (premiered in 1782) that features an “exotic” Turkish locale and a lighthearted [...]
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