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This year’s featured guests include Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Gov. Matt Bevin, Attorney General Andy Beshear and candidates for statewide offices like secretary of state, state auditor and agriculture commissioner.
There are also critical shortages across the state in special education, career and technical education and world languages, a state spokeswoman said.
The statue commemorates Logan County native Alice Allison Dunnigan, who was the first African-American woman to get press credentials to cover the White House.
Stuart's memoir begins in Murray, in 1954, goes on to his recovery in the local hospital, and then chronicles readjustment to a sedentary life at home where he heals from a serious heart attack.
Incumbent Republican Matt Bevin and Democratic challenger Andy Beshear are scheduled for five debates this fall.
The bill narrowly passed out of the state House of Representatives on Saturday, but easily passed the Senate on Wednesday with a vote of 27-11.
All Democrats voted against the proposal and were joined by nine Republicans. The bill could pass out of the Senate by Wednesday, Republican leaders said.
House Bill 1 would allow regional universities and "quasi" state agencies to avoid a massive spike in pension costs and incentivize them to freeze pension benefits for their employees and move them into 401k-type retirement plans.
The attorney general charges that the governor's proclamation calling lawmakers into special session is too narrowly drawn and doesn't allow the General Assembly to consider alternate proposals for dealing with the pension crisis.
The governor's proclamation calling a special session is tailored so lawmakers will likely only be able to consider a proposal that Bevin has hammered out with Republican leaders of the legislature.
Michael Broihier announced his candidacy Thursday. Like Amy McGrath, he is a retired Marine lieutenant colonel and entered politics with an evocative video aimed at national, small-dollar fundraising.
Political rhetoric has gotten "way overheated all across the political spectrum," the Kentucky Republican said.
Political rhetoric has gotten "way overheated all across the political spectrum," the Kentucky Republican said.