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Kentucky Retirement Systems, Teacher Retirement Systems and Judicial Form Retirement System are out of compliance with Senate Bill 2, a 2017 law that requires great transparency in the state’s pension agencies, State Auditor Mike Harmon said.
The not-for-profit company is getting its main funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission, a regional economic-development agency. Organizers hope it will eventually employ 60 workers.
The study looks at how innovation affects rural businesses' performance and other other factors such as income levels, unemployment rates, and presence of creative workers.
The measure proposed by Democrats would increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour through staggered raises over seven years.
Following a hearing in Franklin Circuit Court, Hampton echoed a tweet she posted in late May publicizing the firing of her deputy, saying that she was still battling “dark forces.”
Steve Luxenberg's talk will focus on Kentuckian John Marshall Harlan, the lone dissenter in the U.S. Supreme Court case that justified racial segregation.
Kentucky’s Labor Cabinet obtained attendance records that could show which school employees called in sick, arguing that teachers broke state law that prohibits public employees from striking.
Hampton argues that Bevin doesn’t have the authority to fire employees in her office and asks the court to restore her former staffers.
The Milwaukee-based company, which has had a plant in Murray for more than 30 years, announced on Thursday plans to consolidate production of its small vertical-shaft engines to its Poplar Bluff, Missouri facility.
Cory Ramsey, who's already traveled to every Kentucky county at least twice, has launched another statewide tour to find and highlight the state's rural places.
Alice Allison Dunnigan became the first black woman accredited as a journalist to cover the White House and Congress.
Candidates for Kentucky governor — Democratic challenger Andy Beshear and Republican incumbent Matt Bevin — had the spotlight among several speakers running for office.