Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/category/government/page/3/)
“These people don’t have that money. They paid for groceries, they used the money,” Sen. Nemes said. “That’s what unemployment is for. When you are unemployed you get your unemployment insurance and you pay your bills so you can get back to work.”
A proposed wildlife center got a $12 million federal grant after promising to bring millions of dollars and thousands of tourists to eastern Kentucky. Four years later, residents are still waiting for the jobs they were promised.
Gov. Andy Beshear acknowledged that Kentucky mistakenly overpaid people who requested unemployment benefits — and advised recipients to save that money.
It’s unclear if state officials ever communicated the change to out-of-work Kentuckians after the state received new guidance in April.
In a written decision, a state official said self-quarantining isn’t a legitimate reason to claim unemployment – and that the governor never told a private citizen to leave their job.
No law explicitly permits churches to harbor law-breakers or to protect individuals from the state. Instead, church sanctuaries are part of a long tradition that has typically been respected by the government.
Though city lawyers have concluded the councilman can legally hold both jobs, council members and ethics experts say such a move would create the perception of a conflict of interest.
We reviewed more than 230 search warrants approved by Louisville judges. It’s unclear who signed nearly three-fourths of them.
The contractor worked for MSD director Tony Parrott in Cincinnati, a contract one city councilman at the time called “unconscionable.”
Kentucky’s rural post offices are threatened. Over the last decade, more post offices have been closed in Kentucky than in any other state, according to data from the U.S. Postal Service. Closures have hit every region, from coal towns in Appalachia to villages in the open fields of the Jackson Purchase.