As council eyes fast cash from parking privatization, other cities show potential risks
Scrambling to fill a $35 million budget shortfall in the next fiscal year, members of Louisville Metro Council are now considering the option of privatizing the city’s parking assets estimated to be worth $170 million, which has the potential to bring in a large...
WLKY: Machine boring tunnel 18 stories underground for MSD
A massive machine nicknamed the Bumblebee in honor of Muhammad Ali is boring a four-mile waterway protection tunnel 18 stories underground for a Louisville MSD project. Officials describe it as the city’s largest infrastructure project. Every day, thousands of pounds of rock are being...
Trainer: Gun owners should still take safety courses
By Dave Thompson | The Paducah Sun When Kentucky’s new concealed carry law goes into effect, residents will generally be able to carry a concealed weapon with no required safety training or licensing. Senate Bill 150, which Gov. Matt Bevin signed last week, allows...
Passport Health may learn Monday whether it can survive long-term
As Passport Health Plan’s fate hangs in the balance, it may learn as early as Monday whether the state will change the way it distributes Medicaid dollars beginning April 1. The state’s top health official told Insider in an emailed statement that the new...
Justice Cabinet halts promised raises for probation and parole officers, blaming ‘former leadership’
The Kentucky Department of Corrections informed state probation and parole officers on Friday that the 12 percent salary raises promised to them last month — and supposed to go into effect the next day — were now on hold, blaming errors made by “former...
General Assembly passes flurry of bills on last day before veto period
The Kentucky General Assembly convened until nearly midnight on Thursday — the last legislative day of the current session before the two-week veto period — passing through a number bills whose fate was up against the clock, while leaving several other high-profile ones behind....
Nursing home fines drop as Trump administration heeds industry complaints
By Jordan Rau | Kaiser Health News The Trump administration’s decision to alter the way it punishes nursing homes has resulted in lower fines against many facilities found to have endangered or injured residents. The average fine dropped to $28,405 under the current administration,...
Council budget committee advances ordinance to raise insurance premium taxes
Louisville Metro Council’s budget committee on Thursday advanced a proposed ordinance to raise the tax rate on most kinds of insurance premiums over the next four years. The measure is an effort by council Democrats to find a compromise where a mix of cuts...
‘Best of the worst options.’ Pension relief bill for universities, state agencies progresses
By Linda Blackford and Daniel Desrochers | Lexington Herald-Leader Kentucky lawmakers believe they’ve found a way for regional universities and quasi-governmental agencies like health departments to ease some of the financial burdens posed by an overwhelmed state pension system, but they acknowledge it will still...
As the General Assembly winds down, here are bills advancing and stalling
Time is running down on the 2019 session of the Kentucky General Assembly, which has its last legislative day before the two-week veto period on Thursday, and then its final legislative day on Thursday, March 28. With so little time remaining, some bills have...
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March 26, 2019
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