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Governor's crew's air fare to Pike County over $7,000

By Ryan Alessi

Gov. Steve Beshear took three planeloads of officials with him to Pike County on Thursday at a cost of more than $7,000 for the first stop in his six-week statewide tour of town-hall meetings.

Farming heritage project receives $11 million check

By Jack Brammer

FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear presented an $11 million check Wednesday for the building of the Kentucky Agriculture Heritage Center in Mercer County.

State backs carpools, flex time
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By Jack Brammer

FRANKFORT – The nearly 6,000 state employees who work in Frankfort and live outside Franklin County are keenly aware of the record-high cost of commuting to work.

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  • Beshear abolishes vehicle-enforcement department
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    By Jack Brammer

    jbrammer@herald-leader.com

    FRANKFORT — The officers in the brown cruisers who enforce commercial-vehicle regulations and safety laws on state highways soon will be working for the Kentucky State Police.

  • Political NOtebook

    Williams and Beshear at odds again?

    Ryan Alessi

    Herald-Leader political writer

    It's hardly news that Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear and Republican State Senate President David Williams don't get along — or as Williams puts it: ”I don't have any relationship with him.“

  • Counties may sue state over jails

    By Ryan Alessi

    ralessi@herald-leader.com

    Facing potentially crippling jail costs, Kentucky's county judge-executives are looking to sue the state to recover the price of housing state criminals who are awaiting sentencing.

  • Budget cuts reversed for rural medical program

    By Sarah Vos

    svos@herald-leader.com

    The Kentucky Homeplace program, which helps rural residents get prescription drugs and other medical supplies, won't be ending its services in some counties after all.

  • Analyst urges caution on electric car proposal
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    By Jack Brammer

    jbrammer@herald-leader.com

    As Kentucky politicians stumble over themselves to tout a three-wheeled electric car as a financial boon to the state and their gas price-weary constituents, an industry analyst suggests they use caution.

  • Beshear planning town hall tour

    By Ryan Alessi

    ralessi@herald-leader.com

    FRANKFORT — In an effort to regroup from a rocky start to his term, Gov. Steve Beshear will embark later this month on a 12-city town hall tour that will take him from Pikeville to Paducah.

  • Cost of college on lawmakers' minds
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    By Art Jester

    ajester@herald-leader.com

    FRANKFORT — Tuition at Kentucky's public universities and community colleges has shot up an average of 12 percent a year over the last five years, which is about four times the rate of inflation and the growth of the state's median family income.

  • Beshear appoints 11 to university boards

    By Art Jester

    ajester@herald-leader.com

    Gov. Steve Beshear appointed 10 Democrats and a Republican on Thursday to seats on the governing boards of Kentucky's public universities and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.

  • Beshear reorganizes horse racing authority

    By Janet Patton

    jpatton1@herald-leader.com

    Gov. Steve Beshear on Thursday reorganized the state panel that regulates horse racing in Kentucky, adding several new members that are major Democratic party backers.

  • Public defenders sue state over funding
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    By Brandon Ortiz

    bortiz@herald-leader.com

    State public defenders filed a sweeping lawsuit Monday seeking a declaration that Kentucky's criminal-defense system for the indigent is inadequately funded and unconstitutional.

  • Public can attend utility insiders' event after all

    By Andy Mead

    amead@herald-leader.com

    Officials at utilities regulated by the state Public Service Commission are being invited to what was advertised as a closed-door reception Monday to meet the PSC's new chairman, vice chairman and executive director.

  • New chief justice will honor Ky. budget

    By Jack Brammer

    jbrammer@herald-leader.com

    FRANKFORT — Reversing a decision by his predecessor, the new chief justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court will comply with a legislative budget mandate to spend $13.7 million the next two years on pay raises for deputy court clerks.

  • Groups urge older adults to push for pre-school
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    By Art Jester

    ajester@herald-leader.com

    Generating support for strong pre-kindergarten programs was the focus of two events in Central Kentucky Thursday.

  • Gross Lindsay, 77, dies after long legal career

    By Jack Brammer

    jbrammer@herald-leader.com

    FRANKFORT — Former House Judiciary Chairman Gross Clay Lindsay, a Henderson Democrat who was a key figure in modernizing the state's court system and criminal laws, died Wednesday at his home of natural causes, Henderson County Coroner Bruce Farmer said. He was 77.

  • State attorney general becomes identity theft victim
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    By Jack Brammer

    JBRAMMER@HERALD-LEADER.COM
    ralessi@herald-leader.com

    FRANKFORT — One of the first cases Attorney General Jack Conway’s new cybercrimes unit will investigate involves Conway himself.

  • Budget cuts slice into family services

    By Sarah Vos

    SVOS@HERALD-LEADER.COM

    Last year, Brooklawn Child and Family Services in Louisville helped the parents of 268 kids do a better job. The children had been identified as at-risk for being taken from their homes because of abuse or neglect. With the help of a two-year, $300,000 state grant, Brooklawn sent social workers into homes to help the parents become more successful.

  • Lawmakers signal progress on pension
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    By Ryan Alessi And Jack Brammer

    RALESSI@HERALD-LEADER.COM

    jbrammer@herald-leader.com Legislative leaders have reached a tentative agreement on a plan to overhaul the state retirement systems and appear ready for a special law-making session on the issue to begin June 23.

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