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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 …
1 天前 · 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 …
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.
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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.
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 ...
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The Kentucky Lantern is an independent, nonpartisan, free news service. We’re based in Frankfort a short walk from the Capitol, but all of Kentucky is our beat. We focus on how decisions made in the marble halls of power ripple through the lives of Kentuckians. We bring attention to injustices and hold institutions and officials […]
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2025年1月9日 · Republican lawmaker again files bill to add exceptions to Kentucky’s abortion ban BY: Sarah Ladd - January 10, 2025 Louisville Republican Rep. Ken Fleming filed a bill Friday that would add exceptions to Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban for cases of rape, incest, lethal fetal anomalies and ectopic pregnancies.
KY legislature convenes Tuesday while state Supreme Court …
2025年1月6日 · Facing severe winter weather, Kentucky’s elected officials are postponing some events or trudging ahead to fulfill constitutional requirements. The Kentucky Supreme Court announced Monday afternoon that investitures scheduled this week for incoming Chief Justice Debra Lambert and Justice Pamela ...