Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman filed a lawsuit Monday against one of the nation’s largest grocery chains, claiming its pharmacies helped fuel the state’s deadly opioid addiction crisis. The lawsuit against the Kroger Co. says its more than 100 Kentucky pharmacies were responsible for over 11% of all opioid pills dispensed in the state between […]
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Meet Rep. Kim Banta
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. Kim Banta is a professional educator. She has spent decades learning how students behave and express themselves. It’s insight that has come in handy […]
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After scathing audit, Beshear says juvenile detention centers need ‘a lot of improvement’
Three weeks after Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was reelected in 2023, big changes were rolled out at the Campbell Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Newport. Starting Nov. 29, state officials announced, only males would be housed at the Newport facility, at least until further notice. It was the third major change announced for the Campbell […]
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How Kentucky’s Republican-led legislature is changing the face of state law
Senate President Robert Stivers sat with reporters over coffee early one recent Tuesday and reminisced about the last time Democrats controlled the Kentucky Senate. It was January 1997 and Stivers, then a 30-something lawyer from Clay County, had just been elected in 1996 for the first time to what was then a Republican Senate minority. […]
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Kentucky water utilities could opt out of putting fluoride in drinking water under advancing bill
Kentucky water utilities would no longer be required to add or adjust fluoride in tap water supplies — a state requirement since the mid-20th century aimed at improving Kentuckians’ dental health — under a bill approved by a legislative committee Thursday. House Bill 141 is the latest effort by Rep. Mark Hart, R-Falmouth, to remove […]
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Conservative student testifies ‘I’m used to being in the minority’ as anti-diversity bill advances
A bill that would curb diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in Kentucky’s public universities advanced from a legislative committee Thursday after undergoing several changes. The original Senate Bill 6 would have allowed employees and students to sue public universities and colleges on grounds they were discriminated against for rejecting “divisive concepts.” Under the committee substitute version, the Kentucky […]
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Bill would give health care providers criminal immunity for medical mistakes
Written by Sarah Ladd for Kentucky Lantern In March 2020, as the novel coronavirus swept through the country, Ellen Tinker had a “wake up” moment. Living in Washington D.C. at the time and studying political science at George Washington University, Tinker remembers thinking: “I felt like I was going to wake up one day in […]
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Bill would require abuse accusations to follow teachers from school to school
Allegations of abuse made against a teacher or other school employee would follow that individual from job to job — at least initially — under a bill approved Thursday in the Kentucky House. Under House Bill 275, anyone applying for a job in a public school district would have to tell the district if they […]
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‘Seth’s Law’ health care decision bill gets committee approval
A bill that would add “adult friend” to the list of individuals allowed by law to make health care decisions for another person was approved in a House committee Wednesday. House Bill 385 passed the House Judiciary Committee on an 18-0 vote. Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser (R-Taylor Mill) is the bill’s sponsor. She introduced the […]
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NKY benefitting from state’s multi-million opioid settlement
Northern Kentucky counties are benefiting from over $4.5 million in grant funds pulled from a 2022 Kentucky opioid settlement, with more funding potentially on the way. To date the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission has awarded $4.57 million in grants directly impacting NKY out of more than $32.5 million total grant funds awarded statewide. Commission awards directly […]
