Sen. Westerfield plans push for additional juvenile justice reform, synthetic drug legislation
02/04/2016 06:35 PM
FRANKFORT — After passing a sweeping series of reforms to the state’s juvenile justice system in 2014, Senate Judiciary Chair Whitney Westerfield tells Pure Politics he will be back with additional legislation this session. In an interview on Thursday, Westerfield said he will focus in on the problem of disproportionate minority contact within the juvenile justice system. The Hopkinsville Republican is planning on confronting this issue by establishing an audit of sorts on the system. Over three years, Westerfield wants... Read more 
Proposed postsecondary education cuts, performance-based funding discussed in House budget review committee
02/04/2016 06:23 PM
FRANKFORT — Gov. Matt Bevin’s budget proposal faced another round of legislative scrutiny on Thursday as lawmakers on the House Budget Review Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education questioned cuts in higher education and the administration’s plan to devote a third of postsecondary dollars to performance-based funding. Lawmakers on the panel zeroed in on a few proposals in Bevin’s postsecondary education budget, namely his proposed 4.5 percent cuts in the current fiscal year and his plan to make a third of state university... Read more
With show of force, House committee votes down Senate bill repealing prevailing wage
02/04/2016 02:48 PM
FRANKFORT – A state House committee killed one of the state Senate’s priority pieces of legislation with a show of force from union members. Senate Bill 9, sponsored by Sen. Wil Schroder, R-Wilder, which would exempt public school and university construction from Kentucky’s prevailing wage law, which generally sets higher wage rates for public works projects, was not passed by the House Standing Committee on Labor and Industry on Thursday. SB 9 failed with a 14-6 vote which went along party... Read more
Former U.S. Sen. Marlow Cook dies at 89
02/04/2016 12:37 PM
UPDATED — Marlow Cook, who served in the U.S. Senate from 1968 to 1974, has passed away at the age of 89 according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. The Louisville moderate Republican served as a mentor to both U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth. Cook served two terms in the Kentucky state House of Representatives from 1957 to 1961 before being elected Jefferson County Judge-Executive in 1961 and re-elected in 1965. After leaving the U.S.... Read more
The U.S. economy added just 151,000 jobs in January while unemployment dropped slightly, to 4.9 percent, according to the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economists had expected to see about 190,000 new jobs. The unemployment rate, which has held steady at 5 percent the past few months, dropped slightly to 4.9 percent. It’s the first time unemployment has fallen below 5 percent since the recession. The more-robust job growth during the end of 2015 was also revised downward overall: November’s job gains were changed from 252,000 to 280,000, the BLS says, and in December, the economy added 262,000 new jobs, [...]
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Usually there are a multitude of good choices for weekend entertainment in Louisville. But this weekend is a little bit quieter. There are a few Mardi Gras celebrations you can hit up (Louis’s The Ton features Billy Goat Strut Revue, whose singer — full disclosure — is WFPL News Producer Laura Ellis). You can catch up on Acting Against Cancer’s production of “American Idiot,” or you can check out Actors’ Theatre’s family-friendly “Peter and the Starcatcher.” All solid choices. I’ve got a couple of offbeat options, if you want to try something different. To hear some of the most enthusiastic and irony-free musicians you could [...]
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Marlow W. Cook first flashed across the horizon of Louisville and Jefferson County a little more than a half-century ago, full of ideas, enthusiasm and youthful energy. He brought something that our city, then the nation’s 30th largest, needed badly: A vision for the future that would position metro Louisville for the 21st Century. Cook, at the age of 36, was leader of a reform political ticket, along with William O. Cowger and E.P. “Tom” Sawyer, who (like John F. Kennedy on the national level) wanted to get Louisville “moving again.” That Cowger, Cook, Sawyer and others were Republicans and Kennedy [...]
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