Written by Casey Quinlan for the Kentucky Lantern Next year is packed with potential shifts in the economy but many economists and investment analysts expect that the country will likely avoid a recession in 2024 even as growth slows in the first half of the year. States Newsroom talked to economists about their expectations for some key metrics […]
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Beshear unveils his state spending plan: teacher raises, universal pre-K, water infrastructure
Written by Liam Niemeyer for Kentucky Lantern Newly reelected Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear unveiled a proposed two-year state budget — 15 days before the Republican-dominated legislature is scheduled to convene — and began selling his ideas to a statewide audience on KET Monday night. The $136.6 billion spending plan, what Beshear called the “largest budget […]
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Republican backs bill to remove guns from Kentuckians at risk of hurting selves or others
Written by Sarah Ladd for the Kentucky Lantern This story mentions suicide. If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, please call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988. A Republican-backed draft bill aimed at removing firearms from Kentuckians at risk of harming themselves or others garnered mixed reactions from the Interim […]
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Kentucky woman who sued for right to abortion now carrying embryo with no ‘cardiac activity’
Written by Sarah Ladd for Kentucky Lantern Four days after a Kentucky woman sued for the right to an abortion, her lawyers said the embryo she carried “no longer had cardiac activity” as of Monday morning. A spokesperson for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky declined to say whether Jane Doe, as the woman […]
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Kentucky Supreme Court affirms voting districts in gerrymandering challenge
Written by McKenna Horsley for Kentucky Lantern Kentucky’s recently redrawn congressional and legislative districts will stand for future elections. In an opinion published Thursday morning, the Kentucky Supreme Court affirmed Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate’s previous decision that the maps were a result of “partisan gerrymanders” but did not find them unconstitutional. “Regardless of how unusual […]
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Without help from General Assembly, Kentucky child care industry facing ‘scary’ 2024
Written by Sarah Ladd for Kentucky Lantern Children’s laughter wafts throughout the iKids Childhood Enrichment Center in this West Kentucky town, around midday. Dozens of children, whom the center staff call “friends,” get their final bursts of energy out before the post-lunch nap. Then, they sprawl on their classroom cots and drift away to dream. This is […]
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First case of chronic wasting disease confirmed in Kentucky
Written by Liam Niemeyer for Kentucky Lantern Kentucky wildlife management officials say a deer in West Kentucky has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) — a fatal neurological disease that impacts elk, deer and other species in the deer family — marking the first such case in the state. A Kentucky Department of Fish […]
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Former Kentucky Gov. Julian Carroll dies at 92
Written by McKenna Horsley and Jack Brammer for the Kentucky Lantern Former Kentucky Gov. Julian Morton Carroll, who focused as the state’s 54th governor from 1974 to 1979 on providing more money to education, initiating judicial reforms and promoting the coal industry, died at 4:46 a.m Sunday at the Frankfort Regional Medical Center. He was 92. […]
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State-run disaster relief funds had error rates below 1%, two reports find
Written by Liam Niemeyer for Kentucky Lantern Nearly all relief payments to Kentucky disaster survivors from state-run relief funds were made without error, according to reports released Tuesday, one by the Kentucky auditor and another by an inspector general in the Beshear administration. Republican Auditor Mike Harmon and the Office of the Inspector General of […]
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How wealthy donors legally gave even more to Democratic Party during Beshear’s campaign
Written by Tom Loftus for Kentucky Lantern Ahead of last month’s governor’s race, London Mayor Randall Weddle and other Kentuckians gave big to a type of political committee that allows wealthy donors to make massive legal contributions. Weddle, whose earlier excess contributions to Gov. Andy Beshear’s reelection effort had drawn regulatory scrutiny, contributed $550,000 on Oct. […]
