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Local government news from Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

The ruling is a preliminary win for Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who joined other states suing to block the mandate.
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According to a 2020 poll by the Foundation For A Healthy Kentucky, 59% of Kentuckians support legalizing cannabis for adults and 90% support legalizing it for medical use.
The public will have about a week to see the maps — which have been drawn behind closed doors — before lawmakers expect to adopt them.
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Booker, a former Democratic state representative, is trying to unseat Kentucky’s junior Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul at the ballot box next year.
Kentucky tourism has slowly recovered, but industry advocates want a jump start of federal relief money to help market the state.
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This is the third national effort Cameron has joined seeking to block federal vaccine mandates in recent weeks.
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Sen. Whitney Westerfield, a Republican from Crofton and chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he was “stupefied” that police can’t get search warrants for some DUI cases.
Alison Lundergan Grimes, a onetime Democratic rising star and subject of a ProPublica series, is accused of using state resources for her political advantage.
Like much of the nation, Kentucky’s unemployment insurance system couldn't handle the record number of claims early on in the pandemic. The backend of the system dates back to the 1970s.
The university has been under state oversight since its former president, M. Christopher Brown, resigned amid growing concerns about KSU’s financial health and several lawsuits accusing officials of misconduct.
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At least 29 states have passed "name, image, likeness" policy. Pressure is increasing for Congress to pass national legislation to prevent a patchwork of different policies across the country.
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Yarmuth chairs the U.S. House Budget Committee and is one of the Build Back Better bill’s main architects. McConnell is the chief signal caller of the effort to block it in the evenly-divided Senate.