Staff report Two bills spearheaded by NKY representatives have been approved by the Kentucky House and are headed to the Senate for consideration. Most of the 1200-plus bills introduced in the legislature are still immersed in system somewhere. So far, with just a few weeks of the 2024 session remaining, only three bills have become…
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky wants to recognize people leading the charge to improve the health of the Kentuckians. Nominations for the Healthy Kentucky Champions Award Program are currently being accepted. Who is making a difference in their community and/or the state. Nominations are due May 1. WHO TO NOMINATE: • A Kentuckian who…
Kentucky Symphony Orchestra will present “Swan Songs,” a celebration of two Romantic master composers, Richard Wagner and Anton Buckner on March 16 at 7:30 p.m. at Greaves Concert Hall. As age takes its toll, and knowing you are embarking upon your life’s final work, inspiration often transcends mortality. Such seems to be the case with…
Appropriately, the sun is shining brightly in Kentucky on the first day of Sunshine Week 2024, the nation’s annual celebration of the value of public records and open government laws that ensure the public’s access to them. But, once again, all is not happy and bright in the Commonwealth. As someone who knows a good…
For Lisa Sobel and her husband, being able to have a child through in vitro fertilization, or IVF, was “a dream come true.” “For us, this really is a joy,” Sobel, of Louisville, said. “We want for there to be other families to be able to have this joy.” But the recent state Supreme Court
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MeetNKY, Northern Kentucky’s convention and visitor’s bureau, has announced a new partnership with ArtsWave. The collaboration is designed to increase cultural vibrancy in Northern Kentucky through art and creative placemaking. The partnership will jointly fund and execute strategies to further define the character and identity of NKY communities. With support from meetNKY, ArtsWave will hire…
In 2017, Central Kentuckian Heather Hyden faced an “upsetting, awful” and “horrific experience.” The baby she carried — a “very wanted pregnancy” — had a lethal fetal anomaly. She was induced in February of that year, medical care she would be unable to receive in Kentucky today because of the state’s near-total ban on abortion. …
James Renton said he gets why some Kentucky lawmakers and others want to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion policies at public universities like Northern Kentucky University, his alma mater. “I grew up in a conservative town and I can understand personally that change is very difficult, especially for people who were raised with certain…
The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport was named a recipient of a $450,000 Federal Aviation Administration workforce development grant. The award is part of the FAA’s Aviation Maintenance Technical Worker program — a competitive grant program established by Congress as part of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018. CVG plans to use the funds to create…
Are you trying to understand why Mitch McConnell would endorse Donald Trump for president, after blaming Trump for provoking the Jan. 6 insurrection and after Trump insulted him and his wife Elaine Chao, the latter with racist slurs? Go back with me to when McConnell was just starting his climb to the top of Senate
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