by Don Weber – FRANKFORT – Community-based people trained to be “Kynectors” – to help people get healthcare through insurance plans on kynect or through expanded Medicaid, are fearful of what will happen to Kentucky’s most vulnerable citizens if the portal to health insurance is disbanded. Emily Beauregard, executive director of Kentucky voices for Health said that Kynect…
by Associated Press – State officials are recommending more restrictions on fish consumption. The Courier-Journal reports the recommendations come after state officials found mercury in more fish from more waterways across the state. Officials now say everyone should limit how much locally caught fish they eat, not just pregnant woman and children under 6. Lanny Brannock, spokesman for the…
by Karyn Czar – More Kentuckians will have access to preventative health screenings thanks to the Kentucky One Health mobile screening unit. It’s much smaller, but this mobile screening unit has everything your doctor’s office would have; a front desk, waiting area and a private exam room. That’s where, Ultrasound Technician Michelle Teachey scanned my neck. “We’re…
by Antoinette Konz – FRANKFORT, Ky. (WDRB) — A top state official said Monday he is troubled by a WDRB report showing that $4 million in state funds earmarked for a Jefferson County Public Schools reading program has instead been spent on school nurses. Hal Heiner, secretary of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet, said he’s brought…
by Scott Wartman, [email protected] – U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie said there are ways that wouldn’t jeopardize privacy rights for the government to access the iPhone of the shooters in the December San Bernardino attack. Apple has refused to create a backdoor for the government to access the iPhone. Massie, a Republican who represents Northern Kentucky, told constituents Monday that if…
by Mike Scogin, Georgetown News-Graphic – GEORGETOWN — The Georgetown Police Department followed its policies and procedures “by the book” while investigating a domestic dispute involving state Senate Majority Leader Damon Thayer, Mayor Tom Prather and police Chief Michael Bosse said in separate interviews. Georgetown News-Graphic Police were alerted to an argument between Thayer and his former…
by James Pilcher, [email protected] – Kentucky law requires police and sheriff departments to report how much property and cash they seize and keep as the result of criminal investigations. But an Enquirer investigation found fewer than 30 percent of such agencies around the state actually sent in such accounts last fiscal year under a system that state…
by JOSH JAMES – In less than two weeks, Republican voters in Kentucky will head to the state’s first presidential caucus in more than three decades, but the process won’t be much different from a typical primary election. For curious voters expecting lively election day speeches, coin tosses, and campaign operatives herding them into different corners, the…
by Nathan Lyttle – FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce says it will pay for billboards and newspaper ads to raise awareness about Kentucky’s public pension debt. Kentucky Chamber President and CEO Dave Adkisson said Kentucky’s $36 billion public pension debt would require every Kentuckian to pay $8,268 just to pay it off. He said the…
by Ja’Nel Johnson – A new study says the number of low-income Kentuckians without health insurance declined by 68 percent in the first year of the state’s Medicaid expansion. The research was conducted by the University of Louisville’s School of Public Health and Information Sciences Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences by faculty members Joseph Benitez, Liza…
