17 bad and good bills that are dead – for now
A bunch of zombie bills are out there, just waiting for the KYGA to reconvene. Which ones do we want to stay dead, and which ones need new life?
Analysis
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All the Governor’s vetoes, and why he issued them
Here’s your scorecard for the final two days of the session: Which vetoes get overridden, and which ones are upheld?
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.
Yes, efforts to eliminate DEI programs are rooted in racism
We are survey researchers who study how racial attitudes affect Americans’ attitudes toward public policies. In a recent poll, we investigated what, if any, influence racism may have on public opinion toward DEI programs.
Here are the five vetoed bills (so far)
The vetoes have begun! Here are the first five, including Governor Beshear’s veto message.
A trial balance on the legislature: Political agendas prevail
Al Cross does the “bookkeeping” on this year’s session
A rant about HB 509, open records, and legislators’ ignorance
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.
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.
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.
Billionaires Yass, DeVos team up to dismantle public schools across the US – including KY
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.
Here’s the constitutional amendments you could see this fall
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?
The Lege is stuffing bills into each other to get them passed
Why not just write one multi-thousand-page bill and pass it?
