Monday News and Notes
A collection of political news from across the state, updated when we have enough to share.
News
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Candidates line up for 2022 KY State House Races
After successive waves of GOP additions in the General Assembly, Democrats are seeking to re-establish themselves in the lower chamber.
With almost 3,000 new coronavirus cases, Kentucky's rate of increase is among the fastest in the nation; deaths are up too
Kentucky reported almost 3,000 new cases of the coronavirus Wednesday, the most since soon after the height of the pandemic, and hospitalizations and deaths also continued to increase.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Kentucky have increased by 400% in the last month, and have risen for 26 consecutive days
COVID is on a significant upsurge in our state. Here are the numbers.
Yarmuth on Trumka: 'A friend and champion for working Americans'
"Richard Trumka was a friend and champion for working Americans," Congressman John Yarmuth, D-Louisville, posted on his Facebook page Thursday afternoon after he learned that the AFL-CIO president had died unexpectedly.
'A great friend and supporter of the Kentucky labor movement'
Bill Londrigan remembers AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka as "a great friend and supporter of the Kentucky labor movement" who "visited Kentucky on many occasions to support our work." Trumka, AFL-CIO president since 2009, died unexpectedly yesterday, reportedly [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/business/richard-trumka-dead.
Earle 'traveled a lot of miles' with Trumka
“Richard Trumka lived and breathed union,” said Steve Earle, a UMWA veteran who knew the AFL-CIO president for more than 40 years. Trumka, UMWA president from 1982 to 1995, died unexpectedly today. He had just turned 72. “It’s a shock and a tremendous loss for the labor movement and
Clardy: Stop sanitizing and pasteurizing our history
"Not all whites in the Jackson Purchase and elsewhere are racist; there are many concerned conservative Republicans who don’t like what they are seeing. Progressives need to look past labels and past disagreements and link up with them to make sure that our democratic experiment does not fail."
Repub leaders choose virus over their own employees
The Gov listened to the CDC guidance and looked at the facts, and said state employees should wear masks at work. But three Repub "leaders" chose the virus instead.
Beshear announces school masking recommendations
As the number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to rise across the state, Governor Andy Beshear announced new recommendations for mask usage in Kentucky public schools.
Lawsuit filed to stop scholarship tax credits and private school vouchers; KEA applauds the filing
On Friday, a coalition of school systems said they were going to file a lawsuit to stop the scholarship tax credit program passed in this year’s legislative session. Today, they filed that lawsuit.
