The amount a salaried worker would need to be paid before an employer could avoid paying overtime would rise to $55,068 annually under a proposed rule from the Department of Labor.
Gay, who was in Hopkinsville for the Big Read kickoff Thursday, said he was almost failing in college when a poet inspired him to get serious about writing.
In the first two full calendar weeks of August — the latest period for which figures are available — Kentucky saw a 110% increase in daily COVID hospital admissions, with an average of 28 patients per day.
