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Local government news from Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

The 60-day session will see the Republican-led General Assembly consider bills dealing with charter schools, abortion and firearms, as well as pass a two-year state spending plan.
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Beshear agreed that his father's 2014 expansion of Medicaid under the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, has played a key role in improving access to care.
In a year-end interview, Beshear says Kentucky Democratic Party's future is "strong."
Coleman, 41, was re-elected in November and is considered a likely Democratic candidate to succeed Gov. Andy Beshear in 2027.
Gov. Andy Beshear got the jump on the budget process on Monday — a move that follows the GOP House preempting him in 2022.
Gov. Andy Beshear encouraged local governments and other eligible entities to start preparing now for a new application period, expected to open in the spring.
Sen. Whitney Westerfield, R-Fruit Hill, will introduce t​he Crisis Aversion and Rights Retention Orders bill, or CARR, in the 2024 legislative session.
If signed into law, which is expected, the roughly $884 billion legislation would authorize a 5.2% pay raise for troops.
The high court affirmed a previous decision by a circuit judge that the maps were a result of  “partisan gerrymanders” but did not find them unconstitutional.