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KY state workers group blasts pension settlement with hedge …
1 天前 · FRANKFORT — The recent proposed settlement of a long-running lawsuit against big hedge funds over their role in investing Kentucky pension funds will produce a “pittance” for …
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2025年1月17日 · Trump inauguration moved inside U.S. Capitol amid predictions of Arctic blast BY: Jennifer Shutt - January 17, 2025 WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump …
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Gable’s death is a call for truth bells to ring BY: Al Cross - December 18, 2024 Robert Gable, who died at 90 on Nov. 29, will be remembered by the Kentucky political world as the man who …
State revenue is forecast to decline as Kentucky lawmakers …
2024年12月9日 · A projected dip in state tax collections appears not to have dimmed Republican leaders’ eagerness to again cut Kentucky’s income tax. Kentucky Senate President Robert …
Kentucky shelters are struggling to meet need as cold, state law …
3 天之前 · When temperatures plunge to dangerous levels as they have this week, Jessica Lee’s nonprofit in Somerset runs low on space for all the people seeking to come indoors. So she …
Less power from coal, more from natural gas in Kentucky's future, …
2024年10月25日 · Power-intensive data centers will drive growth in electricity demand in the near future, says the utility serving the most Kentuckians. It plans to meet that demand by …
Kentucky's housing shortage: What next? • Kentucky Lantern
2024年11月12日 · Legislative task releases final report on Kentucky's housing shortage, exacerbated by a boom of jobs in some places, natural disasters in others.
Kentucky may have a moderate majority • Kentucky Lantern
2024年11月11日 · Does Kentucky have a moderate majority that could be harnessed to pull the state’s politics back from the far right? Maybe. The defeat of Amendment 2, which would have …
Not total déjà vu, but Kentuckians can expect another income tax cut
2025年1月6日 · Kentucky General Fund revenue — which grows on average about 3% in normal times — grew by 10.9% in 2020-21 and by 14.6% in 2021-22. Those were by far the strongest …