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KY state workers group blasts pension settlement with hedge …
2 days ago · 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 …
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Kentucky shelters are struggling to meet need as cold, state law …
4 days ago · When temperatures plunge to dangerous levels as they have this week, Jessica Lee’s nonprofit in Somerset runs low on space for all the people seeking to come indoors. So she gets on the phone to shelters around the region. Jessica Lee of the nonprofit Help the Homeless in Somerset. (Provided ...
Winter storm leaves tens of thousands of Kentuckians without power
Jan 6, 2025 · Approximately 83,000 Kentuckians across more than three dozen counties were without power Monday morning, according to PowerOutage.us, a website that gathers power outage data reported by utilities.. A deluge of snowfall and ice from freezing rain has downed power lines and trees, disrupted transformers and interrupted electrical service, as well as rendering many roads impassable.
State revenue is forecast to decline as Kentucky lawmakers …
Dec 9, 2024 · 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 ...
Spending to lobby Kentucky lawmakers hits a new high
Jan 17, 2025 · FRANKFORT, Ky. – Health industry groups, business organizations and electric utilities helped drive spending on lobbying the Kentucky General Assembly to a record $28.1 million in 2024. Groups that lobby the legislature were required to file their last spending reports on Wednesday. A few groups ...
Kentucky’s largest utility says it’s ready for extreme cold. Others ...
Jan 3, 2025 · Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities — the state’s largest utility, serving about 1.3 million customers — is prepared to make sure failures of its fossil fuel-fired power plants in 2022 don’t happen again, a spokesman for the utility said.
Leaving KY Senate, Damon Thayer says he acted ‘based on what I …
Dec 18, 2024 · Thayer said that for the foreseeable future, Kentucky Republicans have “a very strong bench” of candidates. During the 2024 general election, 90 Republicans sought election to the 138-member General Assembly. “I feel like whether I’m part of it or not, I think that the bench is very deep in Kentucky, and we’re going to have strong candidates for offices for a …
Kentucky's housing shortage: What next? • Kentucky Lantern
Nov 12, 2024 · Legislative task releases final report on Kentucky's housing shortage, exacerbated by a boom of jobs in some places, natural disasters in others.