McKenna Horsley covers state politics for the Kentucky Lantern. She previously worked for newspapers in Huntington, West Virginia, and Frankfort, Kentucky. She is from northeastern Kentucky.
Beshear said he’s been having conversations with Canadian officials, urging them to spare Kentucky and focus any retaliatory measures “on places and areas where people aren’t speaking up.”
In last year’s budget, the Republican-controlled General Assembly set various caps on spending by state agencies when responding to a disaster, before asking the legislature for a new appropriation.