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The Lege is stuffing bills into each other to get them passed
Why not just write one multi-thousand-page bill and pass it?
The Lege is stuffing bills into each other to get them passed
Why not just write one multi-thousand-page bill and pass it?
Council for Better Education opposes constitutional amendment on private schools funding
This Kentucky-based advocacy organization is opposed to using public money for private schools, and is planning various actions to defeat the bill.
Divided KY Senate advances bill attaching Fish and Wildlife to agriculture department
They moved the Racing Commission to Ag as well.
Medical-cannabis ‘cleanup’ bill passes House
Critics disappointed more qualifying conditions not added and say it increases hurdles
The Lege is stuffing bills into each other to get them passed
Why not just write one multi-thousand-page bill and pass it?
Nine minutes. To reverse nearly a half-century of open records law.
The most significant of bills sometimes get the least attention. This was one of those times.
The Safer Kentucky Act source list is ‘cut and paste’ from a Georgia policy paper
A Kentucky Public Radio analysis found many of the sources provided in support of the so-called Safer Kentucky Act have little to do with the bill itself. Now, KPR has obtained a source list for a 2023 paper that appears to use the same citations.
Trump voters – here’s your candidate
Just in case you’ve forgotten exactly who and what you’re voting for, Seth Myers has the bullet list.
Andy says VETO, General Assembly says HELL NO
This week we start the episode with some (un)surprising news out of DC. Then, the Kentucky legislature, where they just wrapped up day 45 of the 60-day session. Finally, a great returning guest, Jamie Lucke, the editor of the Kentucky Lantern,
Mitch McConnell, Anthony Piagentini, and IVF with Allison Wiseman
Allison Wiseman joins Robert to talk about Mitch McConnell's exit from Senate Leadership, Anthony Piagentini's trial, and IVF bills moving in the Kentucky legislature.
Mitch blew it
After all he has done to destroy the Senate and our democracy, Senator Mitch McConnell had one last chance to do the right thing. And today, he blew it.
Commentary
See allThe Strongman Fantasy
And dictatorship in real life
By any other word these actions would still be the same — just call it racism
This is not your regular racism. There’s no nightriders, no dogs and hoses, no bombs going off in a church basement. This is the soft-core variety – influential White people lecturing Black folks on how it’s going down. Racism just the same.
So the Lege wants schools to teach civics – hahahaha!
Over 125 bills being rammed through by breaking the rules – and THIS Repub legislature wants to talk about CIVICS?!?
So you say you want a strongman?
Timothy Snyder points out the results if you succeed in electing a strongman. And they’re not pretty.