This story is developing and will be updated. Jefferson County Public Schools has a “wealth of talent,” but its central office suffers from an organizational structure that is “both redundant and incoherent,” according to a new report. The report, commissioned by the district, found widespread dysfunction in how the district’s various departments communicate and work with each…
If you listen to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, speak on the Senate floor, you would get the impression that Kentucky is thriving under the new sweeping tax reform, but a new study suggests something different. WalletHub conducted a study to see the states affected most from the tax reform, and instead of ranking in…
It’s not very often that legislation comes through the General Assembly that everyone agrees upon, but it’s even more rare to have two bills that pass almost unanimously. However, that’s what happened this year with a pair of bills aimed at protecting children from sexual abuse. The two bills, Senate Bill 48 and House Bill…
An amendment to House Bill 302 that would exempt private electronic devices from public records requests may have been slowed down, but it still has life. The Kentucky Legislative Research Commission confirmed Monday that HB 302 was pulled from the Consent Calendar last week but remains in the Senate Orders of the Day today. Click here to…
The Kentucky General Assembly will work this week to wrap up action on a number of issues. That may not include final votes on public pension reforms. Kentucky educators have kept up a presence all over the capitol grounds as lawmakers wrestle with how to address systemic pension system problems. Brittany Miller was among those…
Deborah Weed has seen how people diagnosed with mental illnesses can have their lives thrown into disarray when they end up in the criminal justice system. As president of Bowling Green’s chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Weed has offered a space for support group meetings and other services for people with mental…
If your doctor, social worker or therapist has violated professional standards, you have a right to that information under the open records law. But that could change under a bill before the state Senate. The purpose of the 269-page bill is a reorganization of Kentucky’s licensing boards. But the bill also includes new language allowing…
Despite considerable support for the concept, a bill to allow first responders to detain and hospitalize individuals who have been revived after an overdose is likely dead for this legislative session, due to concerns about liability and personal freedom. House Bill 428, sponsored by Kim Moser, R-Taylor Mill, would have applied only in Lexington, Louisville…
LEXINGTON — Since she was four years old, Kaylee Ferrell guarded a secret. A dangerous virus lived in her small body, a germ relatives described as “a cold in her blood.” She’d been born with hepatitis C, an insidious liver disease her mother got shooting up drugs. To keep other kids safe, Kaylee stashed a…
FRANKFORT, KY. Frustrated with repeated delays costing taxpayers millions of dollars, the Kentucky Senate has voted to effectively end a project that would bring high-speed internet capability to one of the poorest states in the country. But officials in Republican Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration warn it would likely cost more to kill the project than…
