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2025年1月17日 · Trump inauguration moved inside U.S. Capitol amid predictions of Arctic blast BY: Jennifer Shutt - January 17, 2025 WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday he will move his inauguration inside the U.S. Capitol building, instead of holding it on the terrace overlooking the National Mall, citing weather forecasts for frigid temperatures.
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The Kentucky Lantern is an independent, nonpartisan, free news service. We’re based in Frankfort a short walk from the Capitol, but all of Kentucky is our beat. We focus on how decisions made in the marble halls of power ripple through the lives of Kentuckians. We bring attention to injustices and hold institutions and officials […]
Say, whatever happened to that bill? • Kentucky Lantern
2024年4月19日 · FRANKFORT — Kentucky lawmakers filed more than 1,200 bills this session — the most in more than 20 years — and passed about 215 of them before adjourning Monday, according to a news release from the Legislative Research Commission.
Universities say expanding their missions would meet KY needs.
2025年1月17日 · Kentucky could have two new medical schools — one for people, one for animals — along with more doctoral programs under Republican-backed bills filed in the House. Deloitte also studied a proposal by Kentucky State University to offer a doctoral program in Integrated Agroecology and Sustainable ...
KY state workers group blasts pension settlement with hedge …
1 天前 · FRANKFORT — The recent proposed settlement of a long-running lawsuit against big hedge funds over their role in investing Kentucky pension funds will produce a “pittance” for the pension funds but a multi-million dollar “bonanza” for private attorneys representing the state, according to a group of state workers who are trying to press a …
'Roadblock to transparency': No prefiled bills await Kentucky ...
2025年1月7日 · The loss of prefiled bills is among multiple obstacles to public participation in the lawmaking process detailed by the Kentucky League of Women Voters in an updated report on legislative transparency released last fall. The League has documented an increase in questionable maneuvers used by the legislature to fast-track controversial bills and exclude the public from participating in debates ...
State revenue is forecast to decline as Kentucky lawmakers …
2024年12月9日 · A projected dip in state tax collections appears not to have dimmed Republican leaders’ eagerness to again cut Kentucky’s income tax. Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers on Saturday said continuing to reduce the individual income tax rate — this time from 4% to 3.5% — remains the Republican supermajority’s No. 1 priority in the upcoming legislative session, reports WHAS11 News ...
Less power from coal, more from natural gas in Kentucky's future, …
2024年10月25日 · Power-intensive data centers will drive growth in electricity demand in the near future, says the utility serving the most Kentuckians. It plans to meet that demand by continuing to replace coal-fired power with natural gas while potentially adding up …
Not total déjà vu, but Kentuckians can expect another income tax cut
2025年1月6日 · Kentucky General Fund revenue — which grows on average about 3% in normal times — grew by 10.9% in 2020-21 and by 14.6% in 2021-22. Those were by far the strongest growth rates since 1991 when revenues were boosted by hikes in the income and sales taxes to fund the Kentucky Education Reform Act.