The state executive branch would have to significantly cut spending for a number of expenses, including in-state and out-of-state travel, under a “bare bones” budget bill for the state executive branch filed this week by a key Republican committee chair.  Rep. Jason Petrie, R-Elkton, the chair of the Kentucky House Appropriations and Revenue Committee, told […]

FRANKFORT — A bill that would make water fluoridation optional in Kentucky, which supporters praise as a way to ensure local control, passed out of the House Local Government Committee Wednesday despite opposition from several health organizations.  House Bill 103 would leave the decision on whether to add fluoride to water up to the local […]

The Kentucky Lantern is suing the University of Kentucky after it refused to release records related to a $375,000 settlement with a faculty leader who had challenged the administration’s decision to disband the University Senate. The Lantern filed the lawsuit on Nov. 26 after Attorney General Russell Coleman’s office rejected the nonprofit news outlet’s appeal […]

Our representative democracy rests on a fundamental principle: We, the people, have a right to participate in decisions that affect us.  In two prior reports, the League of Women Voters of Kentucky described how Kentucky’s General Assembly, in its 60-day legislative sessions, has increasingly fast-tracked legislation in ways that weaken that principle.  In our newest […]

MOREHEAD — In a warehouse in Rowan County sits an experiment that Tom Manning-Beavin and his nonprofit have been brainstorming for years — a wooden rectangular frame he calls one of their “boxes.”  When the Frontier Housing CEO explains the concept, he hearkens back to when he played with Lego bricks growing up. Just like […]