Here’s the list of budget line-item vetoes
Governor Beshear has issued over twenty line-item vetoes in this year’s appropriations bills. Here’s the list.
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Governor Beshear has issued over twenty line-item vetoes in this year’s appropriations bills. Here’s the list.
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The vetoes have begun! Here are the first five, including Governor Beshear’s veto message.
Al Cross does the “bookkeeping” on this year’s session
Lawmakers who know so little about the requirements of the open records law, much less it’s necessity and value — or who are willing to justify needless and destructive revision of the law with false claims and misrepresentations — cannot be entrusted with the future of the law.
The plant was also the subject of an in-depth story by Pro Publica, as noted below this article.
Our rulers in Frankfort are determined to increase the secrecy and thwart any sunlight.
How late is late? How about over 1,000 days late?
Kentucky school districts say a proposed bill to tighten restrictions on SNAP participation will lead to an uptick in student hunger.
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.
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.
Former Education Secretary Betsy Devos has teamed up with billionaire trader and TikTok investor Jeff Yass to dismantle public education by spending tens of millions on state elections to pass charter and private school voucher bills, and to defeat Andy Beshear.
There can only be four proposed constitutional amendments on any election ballot, but this year’s General Assembly has seen over 20 filed. Which ones are likely to make the cut?
Why not just write one multi-thousand-page bill and pass it?
The most significant of bills sometimes get the least attention. This was one of those times.