Forward Kentucky

1 week ago | forwardky.com | McKenna Horsley

FRANKFORT — A Louisville Democrat who has been accused of inappropriate behavior toward women in and out of Frankfort appeared Tuesday in an hours-long closed door session with the Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission. The commission took no final action on the matter Tuesday. Rep. Daniel Grossberg’s attorney Thomas E. Clay told reporters after his client left shortly before 5 p.m. that they could not comment on the matter.

1 week ago | forwardky.com | McKenna Horsley

A Louisville Democrat accused of inappropriate conduct toward women asked a court to intervene in a Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission complaint against him. A  judge denied the motion Monday, a day before the commission is scheduled to meet. Rep. Daniel Grossberg filed the lawsuit in Franklin Circuit Court on Friday asking that the commission be barred from proceeding further with its investigation.

2 weeks ago | forwardky.com | McKenna Horsley

LOUISVILLE — In the wake of tension between the White House and and elected officials in California, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky said that “violence is never acceptable” but “a chain of command” should be respected. Over the weekend, Republican President Donald Trump mobilized California National Guard troops in response to protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ activity in Los Angeles over the objections of Democratic California Gov.

2 weeks ago | forwardky.com | Ivonne Rovira

For the first time since 2018, a child in Kentucky has died of whooping cough. Not one, but two. “Neither the infants nor their mothers had received the recommended immunizations against pertussis during pregnancy or infancy,” read the statement released by Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services on June 6. One would hope that these unnecessary deaths would persuade anti-vaxx parents to vaccinate their children; however, that is the triumph of hope over experience.

2 weeks ago | forwardky.com | Teri Carter

When I landed in Chicago last week, returning from two weeks in Germany and Austria, the first Kentucky stories that appeared in my news feed were the devastating, deadly tornadoes and that state senator Robin Webb had changed her party registration. Webb said, in part, that she chose to leave the Democratic Party and become a registered Republican because, “First and foremost, I’m a mother, a rancher and a lawyer” and that her core values have not changed.