Delinquent campaign finance filing – a bipartisan problem
How late is late? How about over 1,000 days late?
Analysis
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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?
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.
Gaming their own law: Will Senate Republicans follow House lead on trail of another income tax cut?
In other words – Will we be Kansas, just in slow motion?
Kentucky Senate’s pro-coal bill would burden ratepayers, make energy transition more chaotic
SB 349 is not what Kentucky’s ratepayers need. There are better ways if the goal is reliable, lowest-cost power.
The open records bill is better, but still has significant problems
The bill still exempts private devices and accounts from public records requests. Want to hide something you’re doing from the public? Just do it on your personal cell phone.
Public records compromise still has giant loophole
A public record is a public record regardless of where it is stored. This bill still ignores that.
Kentucky House resolution would command state to defy EPA on air pollution from coal, gas
Defying the EPA could lead to lawsuits and even loss of federal funding.
Medical marijuana eligibility would expand in Kentucky under a new GOP bill
The Republican sponsor of a bill to legalize medical cannabis in Kentucky last year has filed a new bill to expand the number of eligible medical conditions for patients when the program goes into effect in 2025.
