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1 week ago | 
forwardky.com | Teri Carter |Berry Craig |Bruce Maples
Congratulations, Bill Maher. You found the bottom of your barrel. Bill said he went to the White House for dinner with the president because he and his buddy, Kid Rock, thought there was something better to be done “than hurl insults from 3,000 miles away.”I won’t bore you with every detail — you can watch Bill’s monologue for yourself if you’d like — but it boils down to them having a lovely, engaging evening and Mr. Trump being quite charming. Ah, charm.
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3 weeks ago | 
forwardky.com | Robert Kahne |Jazmin Smith |Bruce Maples
We welcomed Rep. Joshua Watkins of Louisville to talk to us about his first legislative session this week. He explained his process of trying to improve bad legislation, how the session met his expectations, and his hopes for the future. Before the interview, Robert and Jazmin talked through the rest of Governor Beshear’s vetoes, as well as the Kentucky Democratic Party's reorganization.
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3 weeks ago | 
forwardky.com | Ivonne Rovira |Bruce Maples
(UPDATE: Since I penned this, journalist Julian Sanchez noted proof in the text messages that #SignalGate wasn’t a one-off.
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4 weeks ago | 
forwardky.com | Kentucky Lantern |Sarah Ladd |Bruce Maples
— by Sarah Ladd, Kentucky Lantern —Saying it “threatens the life of pregnant women in Kentucky,” Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed a bill Republican lawmakers said would clarify the state’s abortion ban; the measure also would pave the way for Kentucky to open freestanding birth centers. The Republican-controlled General Assembly can override Democrat Beshear’s veto when lawmakers return to Frankfort Thursday and Friday following the veto period.
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4 weeks ago | 
forwardky.com | Robert Kahne |Jazmin Smith |Bruce Maples
Jazmin discusses the bills vetoed by Andy Beshear, and Robert talks through a few other items involved former elected executive branch officials in Kentucky. Jazmin discusses the bills vetoed by Andy Beshear, and Robert talks through a few other items involved former elected executive branch officials in Kentucky. You can subscribe to MOKP on any of the major podcast platforms, and you can support them on their Patreon page.
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1 month ago | 
forwardky.com | Jazmin Smith |Robert Kahne |Bruce Maples
As of Friday, all the bills that won’t be able to survive a veto had to be passed -- so Repubs filed a lot of secret priorities that were passed at the last second. We cover those, and Jazmin updated the status of all the bills we’ve been tracking so far this legislative session. As of Friday, all the bills that won't be able to survive a veto by Governor Beshear had to be passed – so Republicans came out big with a lot of secret priorities that were passed at the last second.
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1 month ago | 
forwardky.com | Amye Bensenhaver |Bruce Maples
There’s a picture that apparently exists in the minds of the majority of Kentucky lawmakers. It’s a picture of a law enforcement agency’s harried records custodian recklessly and without reference to the law — much less public safety — releasing banker’s boxes of investigative records to morbidly curious open records requesters or requesters with bad intent. That picture is entirely false.
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1 month ago | 
forwardky.com | Randy Patrick |Bruce Maples
— by Randy Patrick, WinCity Voices —In his dark comedy It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis describes the rise of a risible demagogue who is elected president of the United States and becomes a dictator. The novel was published in 1935, when Lewis’s wife, journalist Dorothy Thompson, was reporting on the emergence of fascism in Europe.
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1 month ago | 
forwardky.com | Nadia Ramlagan |Bruce Maples
Listen to this storyKentucky lawmakers are considering a bill that would ban the state from enforcing existing worker safety laws that are above and beyond federal standards. Critics say it would weaken worker’s rights and put employees in manufacturing, construction, mining, and other dangerous jobs at higher risk. According to state data from 2022, Kentucky’s workplace injury and death rates are higher than the national average.
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1 month ago | 
forwardky.com | Ivonne Rovira |Bruce Maples
Children, gather ‘round while I tell you a tale of nomenclature past. Once upon a time, the womb warriors were referred to as anti-abortion. Which was accurate, because as abortion-rights advocates noted, once a baby was born, they didn’t care about it any longer. Now, this greatly offended all of the people who wanted to control what women did with their bodies.
