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KY state workers group blasts pension settlement with hedge …
1 day 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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Jan 17, 2025 · Trump inauguration moved inside U.S. Capitol amid predictions of Arctic blast BY: Jennifer Shutt - January 17, 2025 WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday he will move his inauguration inside the U.S. Capitol building, instead of holding it on the terrace overlooking the National Mall, citing weather forecasts for frigid temperatures.
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Gable’s death is a call for truth bells to ring BY: Al Cross - December 18, 2024 Robert Gable, who died at 90 on Nov. 29, will be remembered by the Kentucky political world as the man who kept the state Republican Party in business from 1986 to 1993, while Sen. Mitch McConnell was on his way up and planning a mostly friendly takeover of the state GOP.
Universities say expanding their missions would meet KY needs.
Jan 17, 2025 · Kentucky could have two new medical schools — one for people, one for animals — along with more doctoral programs under Republican-backed bills filed in the House. Deloitte also studied a proposal by Kentucky State University to offer a doctoral program in Integrated Agroecology and Sustainable ...
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Less power from coal, more from natural gas in Kentucky's future, …
Oct 25, 2024 · Power-intensive data centers will drive growth in electricity demand in the near future, says the utility serving the most Kentuckians. It plans to meet that demand by continuing to replace coal-fired power with natural gas while potentially adding up …
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 ...
Not total déjà vu, but Kentuckians can expect another income tax cut
Jan 6, 2025 · Kentucky General Fund revenue — which grows on average about 3% in normal times — grew by 10.9% in 2020-21 and by 14.6% in 2021-22. Those were by far the strongest growth rates since 1991 when revenues were boosted by hikes in the income and sales taxes to fund the Kentucky Education Reform Act.
Beshear says he's focused on leading 'state I love' even as his ...
Dec 19, 2024 · FRANKFORT — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear says he’s focused on leading Kentucky for the remaining two years and 340-some days of his second term.