Legislative bills would improve access to women’s period products
Similar bills have been filed in the past, but did not get passed.
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Courier-Journal suing LMPD to get search warrant data
Metro Police has ignored the records request for over four months.
Beshear wants lawmakers to expand number of conditions that qualify for medical marijuana
Starting in 2025, Kentucky doctors can legally prescribe medical cannabis to patients with one of seven qualifying conditions, including cancer. But Beshear wants to expand the list to 21 to include ailments.
This Week at the State Capitol
Lawmakers file scores of bills throughout the first days of the 2024 session
Beshear puts human faces to his budget proposals in State of the Commonwealth address
Governor says Kentucky can be economic, moral leader. Republicans’ budget to come in next couple of weeks.
Not the usual first day of the General Assembly
Even as the leadership pushed through the same legislative shorcuts that had been called out by the League of Women Voters, numerous leges (including some Repubs!) spoke against these attacks on representative government.
Today’s swearing-in ceremony – a photo gallery
A collection of photos from today’s swearing-in ceremony of the remaining constitutional officers.
Beshear proposes budget with largest pay increase for teachers in 40 years
The budget aims to address the concerns Kentucky families worry most about, such as the cost of child care.
Breaking: Lt. Gov. Coleman undergoes double mastectomy
In a statement, Kentucky’s Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman shared that she had had a successful double mastectomy today.
Beshear calls for an amendment on redistricting though passing it would be ‘challenging’
After the Kentucky Supreme Court affirmed redrawn congressional and legislative districts Thursday morning, Gov. Andy Beshear said a constitutional amendment should be pursued but noted it would be “challenging” to pass through the General Assembly.
Divided Kentucky Supreme Court rules redistricting plans can stay
A sharply divided Kentucky Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that the 2022 legislative and Congressional redistricting plans were not partisan enough to justify throwing them out and requiring new plans to be enacted.
Beshear and Coleman inauguration addresses
Here are the two speeches given by newly-sworn-in Governor Andy Beshear and Lt. Governor Jacqueline Coleman at the inauguration ceremony on Tuesday.
Charter schools ruled unconstitutional in Kentucky
For the second time in three years, the effort to divert public funding to private schools has been blocked by the courts.
