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College in PA helping to bring KY solar facility online
Swarthmore College and eight other colleges and universities in North Carolina and Pennsylvania are joining forces to bring an innovative, large-scale solar facility online in western Kentucky. By collaborating on this Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), Davidson College, Dickinson College, Elon University, Haverford College, Lafayette College, Lehigh University, Muhlenberg College, Swarthmore College, and Wake Forest University are accessing the benefits of renewable energy through a deal typically only feasible for large customers.
‘Timing and momentum are everything’
A veteran Kentucky union activist believes the United Auto Workers’ landslide victory at the Chattanooga, Tenn., Volkswagen plant bodes well for the union succeeding next month at the Mercedes Benz assembly and battery factories near Tuscaloosa, Ala. “Timing and momentum are everything,” said Kirk Gillenwaters, a Louisville UAW Local...
Kentucky’s GOP legislature has a racism problem
If there is a photo that defines Kentucky’s 2024 regular session, it is a smiling Secretary of State Michael Adams signing House Bill 5 — a sprawling, data-questionable, pro-incarceration bill with an unknown, sky’s-the-limit budget, overriding the governor’s veto — in the capitol rotunda, surrounded by more than two dozen applauding supporters and lawmakers. All white.
Kentucky man says police violated Fourth Amendment by searching his backpack during arrest
The Fourth Amendment generally bars police from searching people or their property without a warrant. The Supreme Court has made an exception for searches made during an arrest. But although that exception applies to arrestees themselves, it only extends to their nearby possessions if there is a risk they can reach into them to grab a weapon or destroy evidence. This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether a backpack that is outside the reach of a person in handcuffs falls within the warrant exception.
Strong fundraisers vie to succeed McConnell as U.S. Senate Republican leader
Fundraising prowess has emerged as a key factor in choosing the next Senate GOP party leader to succeed current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). McConnell’s announcement that he will be stepping down from the Republican Party’s Senate leadership in November has started a succession bid that will require contenders to showcase their fundraising skills.
Workers Memorial Day is this Sunday
Organized labor observes April 28 as Workers Memorial Day because “each day, more than 340 workers are killed and more than 6,000 suffer injury and illness because of dangerous working conditions that are preventable,” the AFL-CIO explains. The voice of history, the subject I taught in a community...
Court divided over constitutionality of criminal penalties for homelessness
The Supreme Court on Monday was divided over a challenge to the constitutionality of ordinances in a southwest Oregon town that fines people who are homeless from using blankets, pillows, or cardboard boxes for protection from the elements while sleeping within the city limits. The city argued that the ordinances merely bar camping on public property by everyone, while the challengers contended that the laws effectively make it a crime to be homeless in the city and therefore violate the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Governor Andy Beshear vetoes three additional bills following end of legislature’s 2024 regular session
Amid the bill signings Gov. Andy Beshear has conducted since the 2024 regular session of the General Assembly adjourned on Monday, April 15, he has also vetoed three measures passed by lawmakers. One of them was Senate Bill 28, which deals with podiatry. It would change state law to add...
A historic aid package was passed on Saturday. How did our reps vote?
Yesterday, April 20, the U.S. House finally passed a series of aid bills that had been bottled up for months by the MAGA caucus. Speaker Mike Johnson pulled together a coalition of Democrats and non-MAGA Republicans to get the votes and send the entire set to the Senate. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has called the senators back to Washington (they were on recess), and has promised a vote on Tuesday. President Biden has said he will sign the bills as soon as they hit his desk.
The political life and lessons of George Atkins
George L. Atkins Jr., who died April 14 at age 82, was a politician for barely a decade. But he was a touchstone for modern Kentucky politics and historical currents that go back more than a century: the corrupting force of big business, voters’ desire for reform, the influence of the news media, and the compromises made by people in public life.
Massie cites three reasons for urging Speaker Johnson’s resignation; then what?
For a Whiz Kid with fancy-schmancy degrees from some snooty college in liberal Massachusetts who has more patents than Edison (okay, that’s hyperbole, but play along for a second), it sure seems like Rep. Thomas Massie has a problem figuring out 2 + 2 sometimes. Massie (R-SomewhereOrOtherLewisCounty) is, to...
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