The Kentucky House has voted to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at public colleges and universities – a move that could potentially ban state schools from offering programs geared toward federally protected classes of religion, race, sex, color or national origin. The move came Friday when House members voted 68-18 to strip earlier DEI […]
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Session crime bill gets NKY input, advances to full Senate
A major crime bill with significant input from a Northern Kentucky lawmaker is on its way to a vote in the Kentucky Senate – despite opposition from the chairman of the committee that advanced the bill Thursday. Senate Judiciary committee chair Sen. Whitney Westerfield (R-Hopkinsville) had pushed for the committee to adopt a substitute of […]
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Senate budget includes over $175M in new funding for NKY projects
More than $175 million in new direct funding for Northern Kentucky projects – including a massive project at Covington Central Riverfront and airport improvements at CVG – is found in a budget proposal approved Wednesday in the Kentucky Senate. The Senate added the funding to state budget bills that first passed the Kentucky House on […]
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Five NKY Chamber infrastructure asks to watch this session
The NKY Chamber has identified funding to complete the KY 536 corridor project as its top infrastructure priority, with the House and Senate expected to negotiate on the final appropriations before the legislative session ends in April.
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Shop owner worried anti-vape bill could hurt business
An anti-vaping bill that a Northern Kentucky shop owner says will put his stores out of business passed the House Monday with opposition from some regional lawmakers. The legislation, House Bill 11, would limit vape sales in Kentucky to products authorized or pending action by the federal Food and Drug Administration. Retailers would have to […]
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Meet Kentucky Rep. Kimberly Moser
Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser, a nurse and health policy administrator, has served as Chairperson of the House Health and Family Services Committee since 2016, and has sponsored bills to improve the care of cancer patients and increase penalties for trafficking opioids.
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Duke, Chamber oppose bill they say would increase costs to support coal
Duke Energy and the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce are opposing legislation that would make it harder to close aging power plants, resulting in increased energy costs and jeopardizing reliable service.
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Kentucky Supreme Court hears from insurers fighting over share of state’s Medicaid business
A dispute involving six insurance companies over a share of Kentucky’s $15 billion a year Medicaid business moved to the state Supreme Court Thursday where justices tried to sort out a long running battle over the lucrative contracts. Litigation has stretched on several years, largely over Anthem Kentucky’s claim it was unfairly shut out of […]
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Anti-DEI bills raise concerns among NKU students, faculty
James Renton said he gets why some Kentucky lawmakers and others want to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion policies at public universities like Northern Kentucky University, his alma mater. “I grew up in a conservative town and I can understand personally that change is very difficult, especially for people who were raised with certain […]
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Democrats walk out to protest ‘alternatives to pregnancy termination’ bill
In 2017, Central Kentuckian Heather Hyden faced an “upsetting, awful” and “horrific experience.” The baby she carried — a “very wanted pregnancy” — had a lethal fetal anomaly. She was induced in February of that year, medical care she would be unable to receive in Kentucky today because of the state’s near-total ban on abortion. […]
