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2025年1月17日 · Trump inauguration moved inside U.S. Capitol amid predictions of Arctic blast BY: Jennifer Shutt - January 17, 2025 WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday he will move his inauguration inside the U.S. Capitol building, instead of holding it on the terrace overlooking the National Mall, citing weather forecasts for frigid temperatures.
KY state workers group blasts pension settlement with hedge …
2 天之前 · FRANKFORT — The recent proposed settlement of a long-running lawsuit against big hedge funds over their role in investing Kentucky pension funds will produce a “pittance” for the pension funds but a multi-million dollar “bonanza” for private attorneys representing the state, according to a group of state workers who are trying to press a …
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Gable’s death is a call for truth bells to ring BY: Al Cross - December 18, 2024 Robert Gable, who died at 90 on Nov. 29, will be remembered by the Kentucky political world as the man who kept the state Republican Party in business from 1986 to 1993, while Sen. Mitch McConnell was on his way up and planning a mostly friendly takeover of the state GOP.
Winter storm leaves tens of thousands of Kentuckians without power
2025年1月6日 · Approximately 83,000 Kentuckians across more than three dozen counties were without power Monday morning, according to PowerOutage.us, a website that gathers power outage data reported by utilities.. A deluge of snowfall and ice from freezing rain has downed power lines and trees, disrupted transformers and interrupted electrical service, as well as rendering many roads impassable.
Kentucky’s largest utility says it’s ready for extreme cold. Others ...
2025年1月3日 · Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities — the state’s largest utility, serving about 1.3 million customers — is prepared to make sure failures of its fossil fuel-fired power plants in 2022 don’t happen again, a spokesman for the utility said.
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State revenue is forecast to decline as Kentucky lawmakers …
2024年12月9日 · A projected dip in state tax collections appears not to have dimmed Republican leaders’ eagerness to again cut Kentucky’s income tax. Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers on Saturday said continuing to reduce the individual income tax rate — this time from 4% to 3.5% — remains the Republican supermajority’s No. 1 priority in the upcoming legislative session, reports WHAS11 News ...
'Frankfort has not changed me,' says KY Senate's new Republican …
2024年12月23日 · Sen. Max Wise, R-Campbellsville, presents his school “guardian” bill to the House Education Committee, March 26, 2024. Wise is the Kentucky Senate’s incoming majority floor leader.
Less power from coal, more from natural gas in Kentucky's future, …
2024年10月25日 · Power-intensive data centers will drive growth in electricity demand in the near future, says the utility serving the most Kentuckians. It plans to meet that demand by continuing to replace coal-fired power with natural gas while potentially adding up …