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Can Democrats stop the GOP from taking a chainsaw to the Farm Bill?

1 week ago | forwardky.com | Bryce Oates |Jake Davis

— by Bryce Oates & Jake Davis, Barnraiser —The first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term have fundamentally shaken up U.S. politics and the federal agencies.
Book purges at Fort Campbell, other schools run by Defense Department challenged as unconstitutional

1 week ago | forwardky.com | Sarah Ladd

Kentucky students are part of a federal lawsuit challenging U.S. Department of Defense policies that led to schools at Fort Campbell and other military bases removing books about slavery and civil rights. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is one of the defendants as lawyers ask the court to block Trump administration executive orders related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
Bill was a good boy and got some treats

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.
A split decision by AG Coleman

2 weeks ago | forwardky.com | Amye Bensenhaver

The Kentucky Attorney General recently issued an open meetings decision in an appeal pitting James Orlick against the House Standing Committee on Postsecondary Education. In a March 11 complaint, Orlick alleged that the committee violated the law when it conducted a vote on a title amendment to HB 4 after the committee adjourned. The committee ignored Orlick’s complaint.
Lantern founding editor inducted into KY Journalism Hall of Fame

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.
Floods, a Senate campaign ad, and Andy Beshear starts a podcast

2 weeks ago | forwardky.com | Robert Kahne |Jazmin Smith

This week Robert and Jazmin talked through several news items from this week, including tragic flooding throughout Kentucky, a new ad from Pamela Stevenson, and Andy Beshea’’s new podcast. This week Robert and Jazmin talked through several news items from this week, including tragic flooding throughout Kentucky, a new ad from Pamela Stevenson, and Andy Beshea’’s new podcast. You can subscribe to MOKP on any of the major podcast platforms, and you can support them on their Patreon page.
The burden of UofL’s new president

2 weeks ago | forwardky.com | Amye Bensenhaver

UofL’s new President, Gerry Bradley, carries a heavy burden as the most recent in a series of transient office holders at a university that “has struggled to keep a permanent president since James Ramsey resigned in 2016.”Bradley bears the weight of public opinion following a secretive appointment process, conducted behind closed doors, about which no university official is willing to speak.
GOP supermajority doesn’t care about public safety

2 weeks ago | forwardky.com | Teri Carter

Two years ago, on April 10, a mentally unstable 25-year-old walked into Old National Bank in Louisville and shot five people to death — Thomas Elliott, James Tutt Jr., Juliana Farmer, Joshua Barrick, Deana Eckert — and injured eight, including Nickolas Wilt, a young police officer who was shot in the head and miraculously survived. Two years ago, Dr. Jason Smith, the chief medical officer at University of Louisville Hospital, called on lawmakers to address gun violence.
Taking good care of Greenland

3 weeks ago | forwardky.com | Ivonne Rovira

Vice President J.D. Vance, while on a much-circumscribed trip to Greenland (he never left the U.S. military base there), delivered what he must have thought of as a great pitch for Greenland to become a U.S. territory:Our message to Denmark is very simple: you have not done a good job by the people of Greenland. You have underinvested in the people of Greenland, and you have underinvested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass filled with incredible people. ...
GOP changes to Medicaid in doubt after Democrat Beshear says legislature failed to fund them

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.