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Kentucky’s Democratic governor discussed his concern with the GOP-led budget proposal and called on the business community to prioritize universal pre-K at an event with Louisville’s chamber of commerce.
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The revenue bill would alter Kentucky’s trigger law to lower the bar for future tax cuts while another bill shifts a $450 million grant program out of the Beshear administration’s control.
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The omnibus tough-on-crime bill often called the Safer Kentucky Act passed a Senate committee despite a “no” vote from the committee chair.
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A divisive measure that would allow state lawmakers to fund private schools and charter schools passed the state House Wednesday.
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The fast-moving budget bills were amended in the Senate to add $1.7 billion for one-time spending on projects and remove language defunding an alternative sentencing program and threatening K-12 school districts with takeover.
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Republican state House leaders called a last-minute meeting Tuesday to consider one of the most divisive measures of the session.
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A mentoring program for new teachers would get funding in a bill advancing in the Kentucky House of Representatives.
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A Kentucky Public Radio analysis found many of the sources provided in support of the so-called Safer Kentucky Act have little to do with the bill itself. Now, KPR has obtained a source list for a 2023 paper that appears to use the same citations.
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A bipartisan team of Kentucky Congress members filed the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act on Monday.
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Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over revised air quality standards for soot pollution.
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Less than a year after a new law went into effect to ban certain cash payout video games in Kentucky, one of the companies behind those games is now back in stores with a new product it says is legal.
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House Bill 7, regarding autonomous vehicles, passed Thursday in Kentucky’s Senate Economic Development, Tourism and Labor Committee. The bill would add regulations for self-driving vehicles on state roadways.