College Athletes Compensation The Kentucky Senate passed a measure Thursday to regulate name, image and likeness compensation for college athletes, a day after the strategy won an endorsement from University of Kentucky men’s basketball coach John Calipari.Senators voted unanmiously to send the legislation to the House.Lawmakers in statehouses across the country are wrangling with…
Electric Vehicle Charging Network Gov. Andy Beshear said Kentucky is eligible to receive as much as about $10 million in federal grant funding to build an electric vehicle charging network.The money is part of around $5 billion available to states over the next five years under the new federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula…
Sports Officials Bill A Kentucky House committee advanced a bill Wednesday to create a misdemeanor crime for intimidating sports officials that would cover youth leagues to college venues.If the legislation becomes law, offenders could face up to a year in jail for threatening to injure a sports official or damage a referee’s property. It…
Jury Selection Jury selection is moving swiftly in the trial of a former Kentucky police officer involved in the botched drug raid that left Breonna Taylor dead, despite concerns that intense publicity would make it hard to seat a jury in Taylor’s hometown.Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison has been charged with firing shots…
Firearm Legislation Bipartisan legislation will be introduced at the Kentucky Sate Capitol to reduce what advocates say is an alarming rate of suicides across the commonwealth.It’s a bill that, if passed, could temporarily take away a mentally ill person’s access to his or her firearm.Republican State Senator Paul Hornback and Democratic State Senator McGarvey…
Operation Hope Leslie County Community Problem Solving team, Operation H.O.P.E. (Helping Overcome Poverty Everywhere) began a few years ago.This is a student-led organization focused on improving the lives of impoverished people in Leslie County.Last year, they won the state competition and placed second at internationals. They are competing again this year.Their current project is…
Boyd County Career And Technical Center As Kentucky lawmakers consider the state budget, Boyd County Career and Technical Center posted a video to its Facebook page, showing the needs the center has.“We don’t have the capacity here in this building to grow to offer more programs or to run what we have even effectively…
Domestic Violence Help First Lady Britainy Beshear is inviting people in the Commonwealth to “Shop and Share” this year on Saturday February 12th. This is the most recent part of the 13-year partnership with the Kentucky Coalition Against Domestic Violence (KCADV) and Kroger.The goal of the partnership is to support Kentucky’s 15 regional domestic…
Vehicle Tax Relief The Kentucky House voted Wednesday to grant relief to taxpayers hit with hefty increases in their vehicle property tax bills, caused by a pandemic-related surge in used car values.The measure cruised to House passage on a 95-0 vote, sending it to the Senate.The House passed another high-profile bill that would ban…
Gifted Students Recently, more than 100 gifted Harlan County Public Schools students learn ways to handle social and emotional issues.The workshops and discussions focused on a variety of situations kids may face, including those that could be directly related to their gifted status.“Gifted kids have an additional set of issues that they sometimes don’t…