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1 week ago | 
citybeat.com | Madeline Fening |McKenna Horsley |Kentucky Lantern
Ohio House lawmakers sent the state budget to the Senate last week with a last-minute tweak: county coroners would be appointed by county commissioners, no longer elected by the voters. "A coroner shall be appointed quadrennially in each county by the board of county commissioners and shall hold office for a term of four years, beginning on the first Monday of January next after appointment," reads section 313.01. (A) of House Bill 96.
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1 week ago | 
citybeat.com | McKenna Horsley |Kentucky Lantern |Marty Schladen
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1 week ago | 
linknky.com | McKenna Horsley |Kentucky Lantern
Following the passage of a Kentucky law that eliminates diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in higher education, the state’s public universities say they are reviewing how they are required to implement the law. The Republican-controlled Kentucky General Assembly overturned Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of House Bill 4 last month. The bill’s primary sponsor, Rep.
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2 weeks ago | 
forwardky.com | Kentucky Lantern |Sarah Ladd
— by Sarah Ladd, Kentucky Lantern —LEXINGTON — Kentucky Lantern founding editor Jamie Lucke was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame Tuesday. Lucke joins Lantern freelancers Deborah Yetter, Tom Loftus, and Jack Brammer, television trailblazer Barbara Bailey, Pulitzer Prize administrator Dana Canedy. and many others in the high distinction.
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2 weeks ago | 
paducahsun.com | McKenna Horsley |Kentucky Lantern
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2 weeks ago | 
paducahsun.com | Sarah Ladd |Kentucky Lantern
A Frankfort boy is dead after being swept away by floodwaters as storm-battered Kentucky braces for more dangerous weather this weekend. In a Friday afternoon news briefing, Gov. Andy Beshear said the child’s death while walking to his school bus stop “sadly underscores just how dangerous the flood waters can be.”“My heart breaks for the family,” Beshear said while on a Zoom call with journalists Friday afternoon.
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2 weeks ago | 
paducahsun.com | Sarah Ladd |Kentucky Lantern
Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Secretary Eric Friedlander will retire Aug. 1, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Thursday. Kentucky Public Health Commissioner Dr. Steven Stack will succeed him as CHFS secretary. kAm%96 DAC2H=:?8 423:?6E 92D 2 3C@25 C2?86 @7 962=E9 2?5 D@4:2= D6CG:46D 5FE:6D[ 7C@> AC@E64E:?8 49:=5C6? 2?5 GF=?6C23=6 25F=ED E@ 25>:?:DE6C:?8 E96 |65:42:5 AC@8C2> 2?5 :?DA64E:?8 ?FCD:?8 9@>6D] xE @G6CD66D 3:==:@?D @7 5@==2CD :?
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3 weeks ago | 
forwardky.com | Kentucky Lantern |Sarah Ladd
— by Sarah Ladd, Kentucky Lantern —This article mentions suicide. The number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 988. Changes the Kentucky General Assembly ordered in Medicaid face an uncertain future after Gov. Andy Beshear said lawmakers failed to fund the legislation. For the second year in a row, Beshear last week sent the House and Senate a letter listing bills that they had passed without providing what Beshear said was the necessary funding.
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3 weeks ago | 
linknky.com | Sarah Ladd |Kentucky Lantern
Health advocates are urging the Kentucky General Assembly to reconsider Republican changes to the Medicaid program passed in the final hours before lawmakers broke for the 10-day veto period. Meanwhile, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear on Wednesday vetoed the changes — contained in House Bill 695 — saying they would “put up barriers to and delay health care for Kentuckians.” Lawmakers return to Frankfort Thursday and Friday to wrap up the 2025 legislative session.
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4 weeks ago | 
linknky.com | Sarah Ladd |Kentucky Lantern
Kentucky is investing $300,000 into space research that Senate President Robert Stivers said sets the state up as “a leader in all areas.”The money — which was allocated in the 2024 legislative session’s Senate Bill 1 — is a 10% match for a $3.1 million NASA grant announced Wednesday.
