A Republican legislator from Alabama made the case for state-supported early childhood education Wednesday during a meeting of Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s Pre-K for All Advisory Committee in Kentucky.
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Statehouses across the U.S. are addressing long-standing bathroom disparities for female lawmakers. In Kentucky, there is limited restroom access for women in the Statehouse, who risk missing debates or votes if they have to stand in line to answer the call of nature. A $300 million renovation, expected to be finished by at least 2028, will add more bathrooms for women.
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Armory Kentucky imported thousands of adult plants that will be ready for harvest in two months, hastening the timeline for when some medical cannabis will be in dispensaries.
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Democrats and union leaders stood together in Louisville over the weekend to declare the city a “union town” as the massive Blue Oval SK battery park in Glendale schedules a union vote.
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A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in far western Kentucky.
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A western Kentucky site was among the four tabbed by the Department of Energy Thursday to be potential future homes of “cutting edge data center and energy generation projects.”
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted the video profiling Christian Nationalist Pastor Doug Wilson, who opposes same-sex marriage.
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Asher Watkins had been tracking a cape buffalo for the kill when the animal instead turned its attack on the hunter.
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It took the capsule 17 hours to make the trip home, experiencing re-entry temperatures of around 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit as it punched through the atmosphere following Friday's ISS undocking.