The protest drew international attention, helped win miners a portion of their back pay, and highlighted the state’s failure to collect bond payments from companies like Blackjewel, as the law requires.
Under Kentucky law, the attorney general is the first line of review for disputes between citizens and public agencies concerning access to public records and meetings.
According to the Kentucky Incentives for Prevention survey, 26.7% of the state's high-school seniors reported they had vaped in the past 30 days in 2018, up from 12.2% in the 2016 survey.
The group’s research implies a correlation between high rates of jailing in a county, and that same area not having the resources to deal with health problems or economic inequality, a spokeswoman said.
Unusually wet conditions earlier this year delayed some planting on Kentucky farms, and now the long, dry spell may affect some of those late-planted crops.
There’s still an “enormous” amount of risk growing hemp this year in part because of a lack of crop insurance and the learning curve to cultivate hemp for many hemp growers, a college official said.
Transportation Cabinet Secretary Greg Thomas said that the cabinet would work with the legislature “to consider implementing a network of regional offices” to issue the ID cards.
The toolkit has six modules that include resources and information focused on developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining rural suicide prevention programs.
