Ryan Hermens

1 week ago | kentucky.com | Ryan Hermens

Sen. Mitch McConnell thinks the cuts to Medicaid spending in the wide-ranging budget bill backed by President Donald Trump will remain. He said to a crowd gathered at a Kentucky Chamber of Commerce event Friday that he supports those entitlement cuts, which reduce 10-year spending on Medicaid by about $723 billion and are estimated to cut about 12% of the government-funded insurance program spend in Kentucky. “I’m hoping we come out pretty close to where the House did on Medicaid,” McConnell said.

1 week ago | kentucky.com | Ryan Hermens

A Louisville woman who sued Kentucky late last year in an effort to overturn the state’s near-total abortion ban withdrew her lawsuit on Friday without explanation. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, the plaintiff — referred to with the pseudonym Mary Poe — was roughly seven weeks pregnant when she sued the state in November, challenging two laws that have kept abortion banned in Kentucky since June 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

1 week ago | kentucky.com | Ryan Hermens

1 week ago | kentucky.com | Ryan Hermens

1 week ago | kentucky.com | Ryan Hermens

Senate Minority Whip David Yates, a Democrat from Louisville, is running for Jefferson County Clerk in 2026, potentially foregoing the final two years of his term. Yates updated both his political website and his social media pages Friday to reflect that he will run for the county-level role, which is currently held by longtime Jefferson County Clerk Bobbie Holsclaw, a Republican.