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This Week at the State Capitol January 16, 2026 During the second week of this year’s 60-day legislative session, lawmakers began to move bills through committee and continued to introduce new measures on the House and Senate floors. A high-res version can be found here. FRANKFORT — The 2026 legislative session kicked into a…

Firefighter death benefits bill advances January 20, 2026 SRep. Kim Banta, R-Fort Mitchell, advocated for first responders and House Bill 34 during Tuesday’s House Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection Committee meeting. A high-res version can be found here. FRANKFORT — A bill to expand death benefits for Kentucky’s paid and volunteer firefighters cleared…

One year into his second term of office, Donald Trump’s foreign policy aspirations have led him to variously lay claim to Canada, the Panama Canal and, most contentiously at present, Greenland. He has kidnapped the head of state of Venezuela, saying that the US can run the country and exploit its oil, and he…

OXFORD, England (Jan. 20, 2026) — Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT increasingly shape how people see the world, yet their responses can mirror long-standing biases in the data they ingest. New research from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford and the University of Kentucky finds that ChatGPT systematically favors wealthier, Western regions in response to questions ranging from “Where are…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 20, 2026) — For centuries composers have attempted to mimic the natural world in music. Antonio Vivaldi, in the early 18th century, musically illustrated “The Four Seasons.” Gustav Holst attempted to orchestrate the solar system in his tone poem “The Planets.” And in a famous musical illustration of nature, Sergei Prokofiev…

By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News Just nine days into the 2026 legislative session, several of the many health-related bills that have been filed are already on the move. They are: Senate Bill 90, sponsored by Sen. Brandon Storm, R-London, would extend the Behavioral Health Conditional Dismissal Program pilot project until Jan. 1, 2031. The…

By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News The focus of January’s “Our Healthy Kentucky Home” initiative highlights several resources that focus on children with special health-care needs, including neurologic diseases, autism, orthopedic conditions, hearing loss and more. The Our Healthy Kentucky Home initiative aims to promote simple, positive and attainable goals to inspire and motivate Kentuckians on…

💡 Update: January 21, 2026In its Tuesday, January 20th meeting, the Urban County Council advanced its draft of the ordinance to revise the expansion process for the Urban Service Area (USA). It will receive its final reading in the Thursday, February 12th Council Meeting. In its Tuesday, January 20th, meeting, the Urban County Council will review a draft of the ordinance…

Kentucky Health News Bluegrass Community and Technical College (BCTC) has been awarded $1.14 million through the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, the only recipient of the award in Kentucky. The award is part of a nationwide $169 million investment. The funding will support the development of accelerated, industry-aligned…