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Rumors are swirling in the First Senate District about the Governor's role in the primary between Carroll Hubbard and Rick Johnson. Did the Governor recruit Johnson?
The presence of all three candidates in Murray to hear Beshear speak didn't stop the whispers.
By: Ryan Campaign for Congress
Perhaps Mr. Whitfield might entertain a "Windfall Profits" tax on oil companies such as Exxon and Mobile during this time of their blatant war profiteering
Mitch McConnell's political ad about the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant workers is not accurate at all!
Rep. Will Coursey and co-sponsor Rep. Mike Cherry's bill became law as Governor Beshear sign the KY Deferred Compensation Investment Advice Bill.
FRANKFORT , Ky. (April 17, 2008) – Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet Secretary Robert Vance today announced the appointment of two division directors in the Department for Environmental Protection (DEP).
FRANKFORT, Ky. (April 23, 2008) – The Kentucky Office of Homeland Security (KOHS) today announced a call for applications for peer reviewers for the 2008 Homeland Security grant process.
By: By Pauline Vu, Stateline.org Staff Writer
With federal and state college loan programs reeling from the credit crunch caused by the sub-prime mortgage crisis, state officials are worried about what will happen this summer when a surge of students begins applying for fall semester money.
Just last week, Kentucky announced that unless more money becomes available, it will not accept loan applications from new students after May 1, closing the door on 27,500 potential borrowers.
FRANKFORT — The state has settled a whistleblower lawsuit filed by former Transportation Cabinet worker Sarah Missy McCray for $500,000.
During the height of Governor Fletcher Hiring scandal, Sarah M. McCray was fired from her job in the Transportation Cabinet when she gave information and testimony to the Kentucky Attorney General.
.JPG) Gov. Beshear cited a laundry list of goals for Kentucky to move forward. However, he said, "rank partisanship" and a lack of "unselfish cooperation" stand in the way.
FRANKFORT, Ky. - Significant laws relating to Kentucky's criminal justice system were passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Steve Beshear, including initiatives to curb the rising costs of incarceration and improve the safety of law enforcement officers.
Among the most significant is House Bill 683, an omnibus criminal justice bill that requires that DNA samples be taken from all felons, including juveniles ages 13 and older who are convicted of violent or felony sex offenses. The Kentucky State Police Forensic Lab estimates the legislation could yield an additional 15,000 samples per year for the state database, with the potential to solve an additional 250 cases annually.
Editor’s Note: This war has become very personal for us. Our son, John Barger, a Captain in the Kentucky National Guard, is taking his command of Combat Engineers into harms way. His unit is now joining the 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan.
As his family for the safe return of the 500 young men and women who make up Kentucky’s combat engineers joining the 101st, we can only watch in frustration as our political leaders in Washington and Frankfort re-arrange the deck chairs on the “Titanic” ship of state.
We support our troops, but we question what their mission is now that we have reached victory as defined by our President.
Editor’s Note: This war has become very personal for us. Our son, John Barger, a Captain in the Kentucky National Guard, is taking his command of Combat Engineers into harms way. His unit is now joining the 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan.
As his family prays for the safe return of the 500 young men and women who make up Kentucky’s combat engineers joining the 101st, we can only watch in frustration as our political leaders in Washington and Frankfort re-arrange the deck chairs on the “Titanic” ship of state.
We support our troops, but we question what their mission is now that we have reached victory as defined by our President.
This war has become very personal for us. Our son, John Barger, a captain in the Kentucky National Guard, is taking his company of Combat Engineers into harm's way. His unit is with the 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan.
As one of the families praying for the safe return of the almost 500 young men and women who make up Kentucky’s combat engineers joining the 101st, we support our troops, so we can only hope their mission in Afghanistan will get the support and attention as the war in Iraq.
We urge our political leaders to bring the same devotion to duty that our soldiers bring to theirs.
Editor Note: For the past week the political power halls of Frankfort have been very quiet, except for the occasionally secret meetings behind close doors. The agendas of these meetings concerned adding more water and sewer projects to the budget.
Meanwhile, the price of oil has topped $112 per barrel as President Bush defends his war record. During the next two days, the new governor of Kentucky must decide to veto the budget or sign it into law.
Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky gave a response to President Bush speech on the status of the war in the Middle East. Yarmuth charged that the cost of the war was the primary reason America’s economy was in trouble.
Yarmuth said, “The growing cost to the United States of fighting the war in Iraq is not only linked to our economic skid, but is a leading cause of it.”.
One of Kentucky’s cornerstones of economic development is keeping college educated citizens in the state. The highest paying jobs of the 21st Century will be information age or knowledge base jobs. Many of these jobs will be established in areas and fields that will seem like science fiction to the jobs of the 20th Century.
The 2009-2010 Kentucky Executive Budget will hurt higher education in profound ways which will limit students access to an affordable education. Already, the University of Kentucky has announced a 9 % increase for next year’s students. Murray State University followed with a 6 % increase for next year. MSU had planned a 9 % increase until the student representative on the board introduced, fought for and won a 6 % increase.
In Saturday’s Courier-Journal Editorial page, a well written statement was made concerning the issue of viewing increase tuition when a new form of taxation on students and their families.
And every dime of the war has been borrowed, to be paid by Americans after bush cuts and runs from his responsibility to pay for his own mess! Since the invasion has turned the whole world against us, and turned a few hundred Islamic people who hate us into a few million, the only Americans to benefit from “victory” there are our defense contractors and our oil companies and the contractors who get to rebuild what our bombs destroyed in the first place!
"With this goal in mind, General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker have submitted recommendations on the way forward. After detailed discussions with my national security team, including the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I've accepted these recommendations.
"The recommendation likely to receive the most attention is on troop levels. General Petraeus has reported that security conditions have improved enough to withdraw all five surge brigades by the end of July. That means that by July 31st, the number of U.S. combat brigades in Iraq will be down by 25 percent from last year.
Kentucky Education Commissioner Jon Draud issued a dire warning regarding the just approved 2009-2010 Kentucky Executive Budget placing a “heavy burden” on public schools.
The Department of Education staff is undertaking a complete assessment of the budget for the Governor. This program review goes right into the Governor’s review of the budget over this weekend.
By: Pamela M. Prah Stateline
Like an American tourist in Europe, states are seeing their dollars just don’t go as far as they used to.
Not only was the amount of tax revenue states collected during the fourth quarter of 2007 the weakest in almost five years, but for the first time since the 1990s, inflation for state and local governments grew substantially faster than for the economy as a whole, according to new data released Monday (March 31) from the Nelson Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the State University of New York.
By: Eric Kelderman Stateline
The clash between the states and the federal government over nationwide rules to make driver’s licenses more secure has ended — for now. A truce, of sorts, between the 50 states and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has kicked the issue down the road for the next president and Congress to hash out almost two years from now.
FRANKFORT — Kentucky's $19 billion budget plan has been sent to the governor's office after final passage late Wednesday night by the General Assembly.
Base school funding for public schools is maintained, as is textbook funding for elementary and secondary education and programs like Safe Schools and Read to Achieve.
With unusual rancor, the House passed a stripped down Executive Branch 19 billion dollar budget by a 73-21 vote at 11:18 p.m. Wednesday night. Moments later, the House leadership rammed through House Bill 410 which approved a supplemental budget bill that earmarked somewhere between 150 million dollars to 300 million in new bonded pools for water/sewer projects, Louisville bridges and county roads.
Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, was the only lawmaker to vote “no” on the procedural motion on Tuesday afternoon, a “cloture” vote meant to begin formal consideration of the measures by the Senate. It easily attracted more than the 60 votes required to pass under Senate rules. The three major presidential candidates and two other senators were absent and did not vote on the measure.
Editor's Note:
It seems that Kentucky Senator Bunning didn’t read the “memo” that all his fellow senators were reading. Bunning was the only vote against a new effort to help middle class Americans cope with the home mortgage crisis. The Senate vote was 94 for and 1 against. No wonder Senator Bunning was voted the “worst” senator in America last year by a Newsweek poll. The full story is well covered by the New York Times.
Instead, Beshear was in Dearborn, Michigan meeting with the leadership of Ford Motor Company. With him from Kentucky was Mayor Jerry Abramson of Metro Louisville. The Governor and Mayor were trying to head off an economic disaster this summer in Louisville.
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