No budget deal reached as lawmakers prepare to resume negotiations Thursday
03/30/2016 08:49 PM
FRANKFORT — Lawmakers left the Capitol without a budget agreement again on Wednesday with talks scheduled to resume 9 a.m. Thursday. The 19-member budget negotiating committee met in private inside a Capitol Annex conference room for more than three hours Wednesday morning before resuming negotiations elsewhere in the Annex for more than five hours more. None of the meeting was opened to the public. Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee Chairman Chris McDaniel, R-Taylor Mill, told reporters that legislators on the budget conference committee... Read more 
03/30/2016 08:49 PM
FRANKFORT — Lawmakers left the Capitol without a budget agreement again on Wednesday with talks scheduled to resume 9 a.m. Thursday. The 19-member budget negotiating committee met in private inside a Capitol Annex conference room for more than three hours Wednesday morning before resuming negotiations elsewhere in the Annex for more than five hours more. None of the meeting was opened to the public. Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee Chairman Chris McDaniel, R-Taylor Mill, told reporters that legislators on the budget conference committee... Read more
Rep. Kerr says one thing that hasn't changed over three decades in office is the battles between the House and Senate
03/30/2016 07:01 PM
COVINGTON – As the 2016 legislative session winds down, it marks the end of a career for 64th District State Rep. Tom Kerr, R-Taylor Mill, who has chosen not to seek re-election after serving 16 terms in the House. The 65-year-old Kerr, a Covington Attorney, who was first elected to the House in 1984, and has served for 32 years in the chamber, felt that it was time to finally step aside. Kerr has endorsed Kim Moser, the director of the... Read more
03/30/2016 07:01 PM
COVINGTON – As the 2016 legislative session winds down, it marks the end of a career for 64th District State Rep. Tom Kerr, R-Taylor Mill, who has chosen not to seek re-election after serving 16 terms in the House. The 65-year-old Kerr, a Covington Attorney, who was first elected to the House in 1984, and has served for 32 years in the chamber, felt that it was time to finally step aside. Kerr has endorsed Kim Moser, the director of the... Read more
Budget talks stall on pensions, higher ed as deadline to pass budget in time to override vetoes expires
03/31/2016 06:21 PM
FRANKFORT — Legislators will not be able to override any vetoes issued by Gov. Matt Bevin after negotiations on a more than $21 billion biennial budget broke down on Thursday. The General Assembly is scheduled to reconvene at noon Friday, and lawmakers had hoped to have an agreement in place early Thursday. Talks on the budget are expected to continue throughout the veto recess, and neither Senate President Robert Stivers nor House Speaker Greg Stumbo said they wanted to be called back... Read more
Congressman Thomas Massie believes that Republican presidential nominee can still win in November despite fractured GOP
03/31/2016 04:24 PM
COVINGTON – 4th District U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie feels that the Republican Party is fractured, but he still believes that whoever becomes the GOP presidential nominee that person can defeat Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in November. Massie, who spoke at the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Thursday in Covington, questioned why Ohio Governor John Kasich is still in the race, saying mathematically he won’t have enough delegates to win. He also felt that there was significance to the fact... Read more
from Rick Howlett
This weekend in Houston, Villanova takes on Oklahoma and North Carolina meets Syracuse in the Final Four of the men’s NCAA basketball tournament. The two latter programs have recently been under the scrutiny of NCAA investigators — North Carolina for alleged academic fraud, and Syracuse for various infractions that led to ban on post-season play last year and the suspension of its longtime coach. I spoke with sports radio host and columnist Lachlan McLean about the Final Four teams, and some of this week’s other sports news. Listen in the player above. [...]
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Months before he was criminally charged with taking bribes for steering state business to a Lexington consulting firm, former Kentucky Personnel Cabinet Secretary Tim Longmeyer joined the long list of so-called “double-dippers” rejoining the state payroll while receiving retirement benefits. Longmeyer, 48, resigned from the Personnel Cabinet in September. Four months later, he was hired as a deputy under newly elected state Attorney General Andy Beshear, at an annual salary of $124,620. By then, he was already receiving — or waiting to receive — a monthly pension check from the Kentucky Retirement System, according to a document obtained by the Kentucky [...]
Fri, Apr 01, 2016 10:00:00 AM, Continue reading at the source
Republican Gov. Matt Bevin has ordered immediate 4.5 percent cuts in state funding to all public colleges and universities. The order comes as state lawmakers are locked in a stalemate over a two-year state spending plan. House and Senate leaders broke off negotiations on Thursday because Senate Republicans insisted on budget cuts for higher education while Democrats refused. Bevin first proposed his mid-year budget cuts in January as part of a plan to cut state spending by $650 million and use the savings to begin to pay down the state’s public pension debt. The House and the Senate did not include Bevin’s 4.5 [...]
Fri, Apr 01, 2016 12:41:00 AM, Continue reading at the source
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