Interim Joint Committee Meetings Commence in Frankfort
Frankfort, Ky. – Kentucky lawmakers are gearing up for the start of the 2023 interim period with the commencement of committee meetings on June 5. These interim joint committees,...
Legislators nix Beshear’s 2nd regulation to expand Medicaid dental, vision and hearing services, but it’ll remain in place for now
Kentucky Voices for Health graphic supports the expansion,which legislators say they oppose on procedural grounds. By Melissa Patrick, Kentucky Health News The legislature’s Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee voted May...
Kentucky Juvenile Justice System Addresses Challenges and Commits to Legislative Changes
Frankfort, Ky. – In a recent meeting of the Juvenile Justice Oversight Council, Kentucky officials addressed the pressing challenges faced by the state’s juvenile justice system. The council members...
Adkins: US’ anti-LGBTQ bills mirror German laws that ended in the Holocaust
In an op-ed piece published on Wednesday in the Lexington Herald-Leader, Kentucky attorney and former US House candidate Bill Adkins highlights the alarming similarities between the anti-LGBTQ laws being...
Path on state gun laws unclear weeks after Louisville shooting – KY has had 101 gun deaths so far in 2023
BY: MCKENNA HORSLEY, Kentucky Lantern More than a month after two mass shootings in Louisville in a single week left seven victims dead, political leaders in Frankfort are saying little...
Cameron points to campaign contributions to question a Kentucky judge’s ‘impartiality’
by Liam Niemeyer, Kentucky Lantern Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron is questioning the impartiality of a Kentucky judge — whose past court decisions have sparked GOP ire — in...
Republican Greg Elkins wins special election in 28th state Senate District
by Jack Brammer, Kentucky Lantern Former Clark County Magistrate Greg Elkins, a Republican, won a special election Tuesday to fill a vacancy in Central Kentucky’s 28th state Senate District....
Attorney General redefines “meeting” in the open meetings law to exclude written communications between public officials relating to public business
by Amye Bensenhaver, Kentucky Open Government Coalition The Kentucky Attorney General issued yet another disappointing open meetings decision last week. The outcome was, candidly, unsurprising. But a footnote in...
Rep. Lamin Swann dies after ‘significant medical emergency’
by Liam Niemeyer, Kentucky Lantern Rep. Lamin Swann, D-Lexington, died Sunday four days after his mother said he had a “significant medical emergency requiring hospitalization.” Swann’s mother, Pamela Dixon,...
Being pregnant was already riskier in Kentucky. Then the legislature banned abortion.
Too many new moms won’t live until their first Mother’s Day. by Vanessa Gallman, Kentucky Lantern Motherhood can certainly be a blessing. But Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban also has...