Government
A handful of companies dominate road work in Kentucky. The state looks the other way.
|
The state Transportation Cabinet’s bidding system allows a handful of large companies to avoid serious competition for jobs.
Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/prominence/top-story/page/2/)
If you are using the Newspaper or Carousel optional homepage layout, add this label to a post to make it the top story on the homepage
The state Transportation Cabinet’s bidding system allows a handful of large companies to avoid serious competition for jobs.
Western Kentucky residents impacted by the tornadoes can apply now for federal disaster assistance. But the process for obtaining relief from FEMA isn’t automatic — or available to everyone for every loss.
The candle factory has a higher-than-average injury rate, and recruited incarcerated people and people from Puerto Rico for $10-12/hour jobs.
Louisville portrayed itself as a police department that would show the rest of the country how to reform. That facade came crumbling down in 2020.
Police in Louisville and across the country are using controversial warrants to collect cell user data from people who were nearby crimes in hopes of pinpointing suspects.
Current and former jail staff testified that Tracy Dotson has benefited from a culture of enforced loyalty and a contract which makes it difficult for jail management to hold bad actors accountable.
The shooting happened at a bus stop without adequate lighting. Help us identify other potential problems or what’s working well at your local bus stop.
The students wait before sunrise for the bus at a corner with no streetlights. On Wednesday, one was killed in a drive-by shooting.
The sheriff says seized cash is a tremendous asset for the agency and has taken millions in recent years, often without a criminal case.
More than 10,000 people are currently held in Kentucky prisons, and nearly 8,000 have gotten the coronavirus since the pandemic began.