Calloway County Schools has announced that Lourdes Oster will be hired as the next principal of East Calloway Elementary School. Oster will take over at East on July 1st for Monica Williams, who will …
Purdue Pharma introduced the painkiller OxyContin in late 1995 – and we are still learning of the harm it has caused. Purdue marketed Oxy in communities with high percentages of people with chronic pain from cancer. The company particularly targeted Appalachian communities. Oxy proved especially addictive and easy to both obtain and abuse. When restrictions […]
WHITESBURG, Ky. — Drugs and the consequences of addiction are woven into the fabric of Jamie Madden’s life. Her earliest memory is of standing on the passenger seat of her dad’s car as a toddler, wearing a peach-colored blouse, while he drove from their Kentucky home to Florida to pick up drugs. On a stop […]
Tim Robinson, the former CEO of what was once Kentucky’s largest and fast-growing addiction treatment company, has entered a not guilty plea in federal court to fraud charges related to finances at the Louisa-based company. Robinson, who founded what became Addiction Recovery Care, or ARC, as a single halfway house in 2008 in Eastern Kentucky, […]
James Bruggers, a longtime Kentucky environmental and energy journalist whose groundbreaking coverage spanned from the hazards of coal mines to scrutinizing polluters, died Tuesday. He was 68. Bruggers spent nearly two decades reporting at the Louisville Courier Journal, first arriving in 1999 after reporting stints in Washington and California and after graduating from the University […]
Are data centers the new coal? Or are they the new landfills? Or the new prisons? The comparisons aren’t perfect, but they are easy to make: a brand new shiny industry owned by out-of-state corporations comes to a beleaguered region with the promise of (some) jobs, part of an ephemeral promise to buttress the failing […]
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With Murray Police Department officers present, the Murray Planning Commission reviewed a revised version of the city’s proposed data center ordinance Tuesday. The new draft included a litany of …
A coalition of prediction market companies including Polymarket and Kalshi is suing to block Kentucky’s recently enacted tax on prediction markets. The lawsuit filed in Franklin Circuit Court by the Coalition for Fair Markets — which represents prediction market companies where people can wager on the outcomes of events, including sports games — calls the […]
Kentuckians deserve better than this.
A spokesperson for U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell said the Kentucky Republican is keeping up with government business during his recent hospitalization.
Judy and I just reviewed our youngest grandchildren’s report cards (Their older siblings mysteriously can’t find theirs!) and those Brooks kids seemingly are doing well. The documents were filled with “Os” and “Ss,” which I guess are now the new “A” and “B.” In-depth narratives – generated by either AI or hard-working teachers – densely […]
A Democratic state lawmaker is working on a bill to file next year in Frankfort that would try to regulate the impacts of hyperscale data centers and the transparency concerns swirling around those pending developments in the state. Rep. Adam Moore, D-Lexington, proposed a bill during this year’s legislative session that sought to ensure electricity […]
An email Friday from former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s personal account to various media outlets, blasts lawyers for his estranged son, Jonah Bevin, for making “FALSE STATEMENTS” to the media and accuses Jonah of trying “TO SHAKE HIS PARENTS DOWN FOR MONEY.” The two-page email, mostly in capital letters, repeats attacks on Jefferson Family Court […]
The Murray City Council passed its new annual budget on June 11, which will take effect July 1, with other items of business such as building fee permit increases and modular home redefinitions. …
At a press conference earlier this month, a reporter told Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear that people in Boyd and Greenup counties had been “caught off guard” by a deal local officials unveiled to bring a very large data center to the area. A number of Boyd County residents had packed a town hall the day […]
Commentary: Just say no to data centers.
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said 37 local governments have requested the state continue reducing the gasoline sales tax in their areas by 10 cents after a Wednesday night deadline through June 30.
The Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission has dismissed a complaint filed against Sen. Julie Raque Adams regarding compensation she received from a nonprofit that was funded exclusively by lobbying interests in recent years.