Senate President Robert Stivers (R-Manchester) appointed Northern Kentucky Senator Gex Williams (R-Verona) as the new co-chair of a new legislative committee that seeks to modernize Kentucky’s technology systems, according to an announcement from the Senate president’s office. “Gex’s professional career has been dedicated to information technology systems, and he will bring a much-needed voice to […]
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Kentucky Senate lets teachers decide on transgender pronouns
Written by AP’s Bruce Schreiner The Kentucky Senate passed a bill Thursday allowing teachers to refuse to refer to transgender students by their preferred pronouns — a proposal that was touted as protecting free-speech rights in classrooms but denounced by a lawmaker whose transgender son died recently. The measure cleared the Senate on a 29-6 […]
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Republican Sen. Rand Paul wins 3rd term in Kentucky
This was originally reported by BRUCE SCHREINER with the Associated Press Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a libertarian-leaning conservative and former presidential candidate, won a third term Tuesday by defeating a rival from the other end of the political spectrum, progressive Democrat Charles Booker. First elected in the tea party-driven wave of 2010, Paul’s […]
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Northern Kentucky Senate candidates: Quarterly campaign finance reports
Every 90 days, the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance releases campaign financing reports. With the primary races coming up, legislative candidates raked in money from both political action committees (PACs) and individual donors. Last week we detailed the House candidates in NKY, and this week we look at the two Senate races this year. Gex […]
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Democratic Senatorial Candidate Forum To Take Place at Southgate House Revival on March 5
Local grassroots organization ‘Indivisible NKY District 4’ brings the Kentucky Senate race to Northern Kentucky On March 5, Indivisible NKY District 4 will host a Democratic Senatorial Candidate Forum at Southgate House Revival in Newport. The event starts at 6 p.m. The forum will feature many of the top Democratic candidates seeking to face Mitch […]
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Fort Thomas News – Week of January 10th
The new year started off right with more news than all of December from the previous year. Let’s jump right into the run-down: 1. First a quick clarification on Mark’s comments regarding the Enquirer furlough. We received a message from Amanda Joering, the Recorder’s beat writer for Fort Thomas. To clarify, she was not on […]
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The 24th Senate District & Campbell County Magistrate Races
I had two more takers on the opportunity to talk to you the voters. First up is Julie Smith-Morrow the challenger for Katie Stine’s Senate seat: I appreciate the opportunity to comment on the Senate District 24 Campaign. It’s four days until November 2 and I am still enjoying being out everyday in the 24th […]
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Kentucky State Politics & Fort Thomas Impacts
My last post focused on local races but I would be remiss to not at least mention the races for the state house. Both the local state senator and local legislator are up for re-election this November. The stakes are high in this election as well. By way of a brief summary here are few […]
