The Pennyrile Regional Energy Agency, headed by former Pennyrile Electric CEO Eston Glover, is trying to build a 53-mile natural gas pipeline stretching across Todd, Christian, Trigg, Caldwell and Lyon counties.
Lawmakers in the Republican supermajority continue negotiations to hammer out their differences and determine which bills will move forward and which will have to wait until next year.
The appeals court ordered the arrest warrant set aside for now, finding Jefferson Family Court Judge Angela Johnson had issued an order to sentence Bevin after he filed a motion asking the state Supreme Court to remove her from his case for alleged bias.
The Paducah Laser Enrichment Facility aims to boost domestic production of enriched uranium in the U.S. and also support cleanup efforts at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant site.
The measure was unveiled in a special-called meeting of the Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee Wednesday afternoon and attached to a “shell bill” that already had two readings, making it ready for a final reading and a vote by the full Senate.
The impeachment petition against Justice Pamela Goodwine stemmed from a Supreme Court decision in December to overturn a 2022 law aimed at shifting power from the board to the superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools, the state’s largest district.
The judge entered a written order calling for the arrest of Bevin to serve 60 days in the Jefferson County Jail unless he posts a $500 cash bond and produces “financial records, bank statements, tax returns and all other documents that would show the receipt of income.”
Pick a random bill filed in the General Assembly this year, and there’s more than a one in 10 chance the original version would be devoid of meaningful content. They’re called shell bills and here’s why Kentucky lawmakers use them so much.
Section 23 of the state Constitution prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude “except as a punishment for a crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”