A Republican leader who said agencies cooperating with an “unlawful expansion” of qualifying conditions for medical cannabis should be prosecuted reached “a new record low” with the comments, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday. This came days after Kentucky House Majority Whip Jason Nemes asked Attorney General Russell Coleman to help ensure agencies “not cooperate” with […]
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Ky bill for wrongfully convicted compensation advances unanimously
A Republican bill to financially compensate Kentuckians exonerated after wrongful convictions unanimously cleared its first legislative hurdle, the House Judiciary Committee. House Bill 206 could cost Kentucky an initial $3 million over the course of three years and between $650,000 to $900,000 each year after in payments and other benefits to innocent people who spent […]
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KY lawmaker under ‘no delusion’ bill restoring abortion access will pass. She’s filing it anyway.
Lexington Democrat Rep. Lindsey Burke is under “no delusion” that Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature will hear, much less pass, a bill to reinstate abortion access. But, during the 2025 legislative session, she’s going to file it anyway. It will mark her third annual attempt. Most Kentuckians lost abortion access when, in June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court […]
