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Maple syrup producers across Kentucky opened their farms to visitors over the weekend as they started to tap trees to harvest the sticky, sweet commodity.
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A Kentucky House committee passed a bill Wednesday that would put restrictions on how law enforcement agencies use and keep data they collect from controversial license plate readers.
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Fewer Kentuckians have health insurance through kynect after subsidies that helped millions of Americans afford health insurance expired late last year but the decline is not as drastic as advocates had feared.
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A fight is brewing over Tennessee legislation designed to bring more transparency to the state’s new private-school voucher program.
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A United Campus Workers of Kentucky board member says a bill now under consideration in the state House that would let public universities lay off educators – including those with tenure – for financial reasons could be “devastating” for the commonwealth’s academic community.
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As legislators work their way through a bare bones budget, school superintendents are asking for full funding for transportation and construction.
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