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Severe storms threaten central Kentucky this afternoon
The National Weather Service in Louisville warns of strong to severe thunderstorms possible across central Kentucky, with the greatest threat between 1 p.m. and 10 p.m. EDT.
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Kentucky Supreme Court backs Beshear over GOP lawmakers’ efforts to move executive powers
The Kentucky Supreme Court declared recent laws passed by the Republican-controlled General Assembly that moved powers away from Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear as unconstitutional. In a Thursday majority opinion written by Justice Michelle Keller, the high court found a 2021 law shifting control of the State Fair Board from the governor to the agriculture…
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The Red Mile’s tax payout was supposed to be off the books. Open records pried loose five years of it: $2.16 million, recalculated by the state nearly every year.
In June, a Lexington Times investigation reported that the public had no way to learn what the Red Mile’s 16-year-old tax subsidy had actually paid out — the figure lived only behind open-records law. The Kentucky Department of Revenue has now produced it: $2.16 million in state increment released from 2020 through 2024, with…
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Kentucky is cutting its income tax. For its oldest development subsidies, the state recalculates the payout as if the rate never moved.
As Kentucky ratchets its income tax down — 5 percent to 4 percent, and now 3.5 percent — a provision first written into the 2023 tax bill and quietly extended twice since recalculates the withholding inside older tax-increment-financing districts as if the rate were still 5 percent. The effect: the cut reaches ordinary taxpayers…
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Liggins Files Whistleblower Complaint; Forum Weighs Homelessness, Housing Policy
Residents debate Superintendent Liggins’s whistleblower complaint—many remain skeptical—while separate discussions grapple with homelessness removal and Kentucky’s preemption of local rent control.
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US Supreme Court hands win to Monsanto in case related to claims Roundup causes cancer
State courts cannot find liability for labeling shortcomings in pesticides and similar products because such products are covered by federal law, the U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday in a decision backing agricultural giant Monsanto. The justices, in a 7-2 decision, threw out a $1.25 million verdict a Missouri court awarded to a man who said…
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US Supreme Court rules Trump administration can end legal protections for 350,000 Haitians
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with its plans to strip temporary legal status from 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, a move that opens them up to deportation. The 6-3 conservative court ruled that the Haitian and Syrian immigrants are not “entitled” to orders postponing an…
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Senate Democrats praise temporary Lee Specialty Clinic funding
Senate Democratic Leader Gerald Neal praised Governor Beshear for finding temporary funding to keep Lee Specialty Clinic operating, while calling on the legislature to provide permanent funding when it returns in January.
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Progressive groups plan nationwide day of action for 250th anniversary
Activists are organizing a nationwide day of action Saturday ahead of America’s 250th anniversary, focusing on calls for equity and justice.
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Republican Coleman to seek another term as Kentucky attorney general
PEWEE VALLEY — Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman hopes to do something no other Republican has done as attorney general — get a second term in office. Coleman, 50, formally announced his reelection bid for the 2027 election in Oldham County Thursday afternoon surrounded by his family, friends and a crowd of supporters, including fellow Republicans…