Sen. John Schickel has filed a bill that would require notification of schools within 24 hours of students facing specific felony or misdemeanor charges
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Posted inEducation, Featured Story, Frankfort, Health, News, Politics
Kentucky House budget would increase K-12 funding but not fund universal pre-K
Kentucky House Republicans have filed a $124.8 billion two-year spending plan that would increase funding for K-12 public schools, raise state employee salaries, and invest nearly $2 billion in one-time funds for ‘priority areas’
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Meet Rep. Marianne Proctor
Each week, LINK nky is publishing a profile of one of our local legislators so that Northern Kentuckians can get to know the people representing them at the state level. Rep. Marianne Proctor has followed politics for quite a while. But it was government response to COVID-19 that she says showed her just how much […]
Posted inWeather
Beshear says be ‘weather aware’ as NKY faces sub-zero temps
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday advised Kentuckians to be “weather aware” as the state faces below-zero wind chill, icy roads and snow in some regions over the next 48 hours. In Northern Kentucky, only a slight chance of snow is forecast for NKY through Wednesday. But sub-zero wind chill temperatures are expected in the […]
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2024 Kentucky General Assembly session preview
Budget, public safety, workforce development, school choice top to-do list The Kentucky legislative process is political. That’s true both inside Republican and Democratic caucuses and in how the parties interact with each other. Bills can live or die by the clout of the lawmaker (or lawmakers) behind them. Then there is the state budget, which […]
Posted inState
Secretary of state opposes bill to eliminate early voting
A bill to do away early voting in Kentucky has been proposed by a Northern Kentucky senator despite opposition from the commonwealth’s Republican secretary of state. Sen. John Schickel (R-Union) sponsored and filed Senate Bill 61 on Jan. 4. The measure was assigned to the Senate State and Local Government committee this week. On the […]
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Kentucky first in college enrollment growth; private for-profit, community colleges make gains
Kentucky colleges and universities led the nation in overall enrollment growth between fall 2022 and fall 2023, according to national data – with undergraduate enrollment leading the way. Overall postsecondary enrollment in Kentucky was up 5.6% between the 2022 and 2023 fall semesters, according to data reported by the National Student Clearinghouse in October 2023. […]
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Kentucky abortion ban: State abortion advocates say exceptions aren’t enough
Kentucky lawmakers are expected to consider adding exceptions for rape and incest to the state’s near-total abortion ban during the current 2024 legislative session in Frankfort. But abortion rights advocates say exemptions alone aren’t enough. Health providers in Kentucky and other states that already have limited exceptions to their state’s abortion bans (in Kentucky there […]
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NKY legislative update: Elections, birthing centers, ‘child sex dolls’ addressed in new bills
The 2024 Kentucky General Assembly reached the halfway mark of its second week of session on Wednesday with filings and committee votes on bills sponsored by Northern Kentucky lawmakers. Among the bills: a proposed constitutional change in Kentucky gubernatorial election years, relaxed certificate of need for freestanding birthing centers, and legislation outlawing so-called “child sex […]
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Certificate of need redux: Proctor files three bills Tuesday to address ‘imminent risk’
State Rep. Marianne Proctor filed three separate bills on Tuesday that would reform Kentucky’s certificate of need law without carving out a specific exemption for the Northern Kentucky region, as she proposed in 2023. The centerpiece of the three bills is a proposal that would exempt more types of facilities and services (rather than a […]