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UnitedHealth Group’s multibillion-dollar pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, is suing five Kentucky counties in an attem...
08/19/2025

UnitedHealth Group’s multibillion-dollar pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, is suing five Kentucky counties in an attempt to force them out of national opioid litigation against the company.

UnitedHealth Group’s pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, sues five Kentucky counties to force them out of national opioid litigation against the company.

Advertisements promoting the abortion pill will be at gas stations across West Virginia and Kentucky over the next few w...
08/19/2025

Advertisements promoting the abortion pill will be at gas stations across West Virginia and Kentucky over the next few weeks.

Advertisements promoting the abortion pill will be at gas stations across West Virginia and Kentucky over the next few weeks. Mayday Health, a New York-based health education nonprofit, will run the ads at 104 rural gas stations through Sept. 7. The campaign started Aug. 11. The advertisements say ....

A Democratic lawmaker asked Republican Auditor Allison Ball if her office’s recent critical audit of the Kentucky Depart...
08/18/2025

A Democratic lawmaker asked Republican Auditor Allison Ball if her office’s recent critical audit of the Kentucky Department of Education makes the case for Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s universal pre-K program.

A Democratic lawmaker asked Republican Auditor Allison Ball if a recent audit makes the case for Gov. Andy Beshear’s universal pre-K program.

A local church is urging its members to permanently remove books from the Shelby County Public Library by checking them ...
08/18/2025

A local church is urging its members to permanently remove books from the Shelby County Public Library by checking them out and never returning them. The books portray gay characters and historical figures or explore LGBTQ+ themes.

Kentucky church urges members to permanently remove some books from a local public library because they are about LGBTQ+ people.

The legislative session that begins in January will probably will be Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s last chance to win f...
08/15/2025

The legislative session that begins in January will probably will be Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s last chance to win funding for universal pre-kindergarten, a proposal he has unsuccessfully pushed with the Republican-controlled legislature.

GOP legislator from Alabama makes case for state-supported pre-K to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s Pre-K for All Advisory Committee in Kentucky.

This law represents a total abandonment of education as a public good, and the consequences will be felt in every commun...
08/15/2025

This law represents a total abandonment of education as a public good, and the consequences will be felt in every community, including right here in Kentucky, where more than 40% of college students depend on federal aid.
Higher education should not be rationed to the wealthy.

President Trump's big beautiful law abandons education as a public good and will have catastrophic consequences in every community, including in Kentucky.

The Trump administration has refused to fund a study that was to have measured toxic air pollution in West Louisville, a...
08/15/2025

The Trump administration has refused to fund a study that was to have measured toxic air pollution in West Louisville, a low-income, heavily Black area next to the Rubbertown complex of chemical plants.

The Trump administration has refused to fund a study that was to have measured toxic air pollution in West Louisville.

There's historical precedent for Texas House Democrats vamoosing to deny Republicans the quorum they need to carry out P...
08/14/2025

There's historical precedent for Texas House Democrats vamoosing to deny Republicans the quorum they need to carry out President Trump’s order and redraw the Lone Star State's congressional map.

None other than Abe Lincoln provides Texas House Democrats a precedent for vamoosing to deny Republicans a chance to redraw the congressional map.

A safer era for Madison County and the region is just three months away, according to the governor’s top man for oversee...
08/13/2025

A safer era for Madison County and the region is just three months away, according to the governor’s top man for overseeing the destruction of chemical weapons previously stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot, reports Whitney McKnight of Edge Berea KY

A safer era for Madison County and the region is just three months away, Craig Williams, chair of a citizens advisory committee, recently said.

Kentucky Republican U.S. Rep. James Comer said that while he supports President Donald Trump’s crime-fighting moves in W...
08/13/2025

Kentucky Republican U.S. Rep. James Comer said that while he supports President Donald Trump’s crime-fighting moves in Washington, D.C., he hopes similar efforts will not be replicated in Kentucky.

U.S. Rep. James Comer backs President Trump’s crime-fighting moves in Washington, D.C., but he hopes it will not be replicated in Kentucky.

Americans who appreciate political courage, including Trump supporters, are celebrating Massie’s push for release of the...
08/13/2025

Americans who appreciate political courage, including Trump supporters, are celebrating Massie’s push for release of the “Epstein files,” the records of the criminal investigation into the late pe*****le and child s*x trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

As Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie asserts positions in opposition to President Donald Trump, he increasingly looks like the Republican Party's future.

With its global headquarters in Louisville, GE Appliances said Wednesday the first phase of investments will begin at pl...
08/13/2025

With its global headquarters in Louisville, GE Appliances said Wednesday the first phase of investments will begin at plants in Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina.

GE Appliances announced it will invest more than $3 billion over the next five years in its U.S. operations.

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