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Kentucky state budget bill clears legislature, heads to Beshear
The final budget bill outlines $30 billion of state government spending over the next two years, with Republicans lauding it as a historic investment in Kentucky education and Democrats criticizing it as falling too short.
The Kentucky General Assembly passes the ‘Safer Kentucky’ Act
Democrats made their final impassioned pleas against the tough-on-crime legislation as it made final passage through the Kentucky General Assembly, until Republicans moved to limit debate.
The Wrap for Thursday, 3/28/24
Lots of KYGA news, of course – but a few other tasty treats as well.
Kentucky state budget bill clears legislature, heads to Beshear
The final budget bill outlines $30 billion of state government spending over the next two years, with Republicans lauding it as a historic investment in Kentucky education and Democrats criticizing it as falling too short.
The Kentucky General Assembly passes the ‘Safer Kentucky’ Act
Democrats made their final impassioned pleas against the tough-on-crime legislation as it made final passage through the Kentucky General Assembly, until Republicans moved to limit debate.
Kid-focused bills advance in Frankfort
Child care, vaccines, and autism education are among the bills on the move.
KY plastics plant ranks in nation’s top ten emitters of chlorine
The plant was also the subject of an in-depth story by Pro Publica, as noted below this article.
Urgent action needed – Attack on open records just got worse
Our rulers in Frankfort are determined to increase the secrecy and thwart any sunlight.
Delinquent campaign finance filing – a bipartisan problem
How late is late? How about over 1,000 days late?
Schools districts say cuts to SNAP benefits could worsen Commonwealth’s student hunger problem
Kentucky school districts say a proposed bill to tighten restrictions on SNAP participation will lead to an uptick in student hunger.
JCPS busing changes and legislative update
Robert goes solo this week to discuss potential changes to the JCPS busing scheme and gives a few legislative updates in the waning days before the veto period.
Andy makes it rain as KYGA24 brings more pain
With our special guest, Chris Hartman of the Fairness Campaign
Watch Meredith excoriate the anti-vaxxers
It was good to see some righteous anger at the damage anti-vaxxers can do.
Uncivil Unrest at the Ethics Commission
We cover The Lege, with a dramatic reenactment of some uncivil treatment of a civil servant by the “my way or the highway” GOP supermajority. Also, a new effort to ban drag shows; a baseless effort to force a Dem off the ballot – then we close with a double-duty call to action!
Commentary
See allCivics Education Bill — something good from the KY Legislature?
Despite the plethora of outlandish, unnecessary, and generally stupid bills that emanate from the current Kentucky Legislature, it can, apparently, get something right.
Jamie Comer, alias Comer Pyle, has proved to be abject failure; no facts on his side
“The only information ever pushed on the Bidens and Ukraine has come from one source and one source only: Russia and Russian agents.”
Overbroad bill risks turning food plant workers, government inspectors, neighbors into criminals
See animal cruelty on the farm next door? If this bill passes, you will be a criminal if you video the cruelty. Tom Fitzgerald lays out the issues in SB 16.
Kentucky is about to pass the cruelest criminal-justice bill in America
The state is making it easier to kill homeless people on private property—and that’s just one part of one of the most draconian crime bills in recent history.