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Keith Todd retiring from KYTC
Keith Todd, a familiar face and voice to many in western Kentucky is hanging up his high-visibility vest this week. Todd has been the Public Information Officer for District 1 of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for 20 years. He has kept everyone informed on everything from pothole repair projects, major interstate accidents and the opening of several new bridges in the area.
Workforce challenges and policy solutions shared with state lawmakers
At a meeting of the Workforce Attraction and Retention Task Force on Tuesday, Kentucky Chamber Center for Policy and Research Executive Director Charles Aull and Dub Newell, Kentucky Chamber Small Business Policy Council Chair and CEO of Louisville Tile, outlined challenges and solutions to address Kentucky’s ongoing workforce crisis.
Toyota Invests $4 Million in U.S. Training Initiatives
Toyota yesterday announced three workforce readiness initiatives at its Kentucky plant to develop future talent and further train employees. The first program, in collaboration with Scott County Schools, involves an investment of up to $1 million to launch and sustain the 4T Academy, a hands-on training program that gives high school juniors and seniors a pathway to a manufacturing career.
Title IX rules that expand LGBTQ+ protections blocked in 14 Kentucky schools, universities
Editor's Note: This story has been updated to correct the names of Eastern, Northern and Western Kentucky universities. The Biden administration has been blocked from enforcing its new Title IX rules, which expand protections for LGBTQ+ students, in more than a dozen Kentucky K-12 schools, colleges and universities attended by the children of...
13 puppies set on fire in Kentucky, $5K reward offered for information on who did it
The Humane Society is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information about puppies that were set on fire in Lexington. According to the Humane Society, a Lexington resident found a litter of 13 puppies that had been intentionally burned. The puppies were estimated to be about 8 days...
Lawmakers join KY’s largest addiction treatment provider to oppose Medicaid payment cuts
FRANKFORT — The state’s largest provider of drug and alcohol treatment is warning that looming cuts in Medicaid reimbursement to some providers could damage efforts to curb addiction that has engulfed Kentucky — just as the state is showing improvements. “Kentucky has made significant strides in access to treatment,” Matt Brown, chief administrative officer for […]
Compromise Sees Mayor Wu's Business Tax Proposal Pass Boston House Despite Growing Opposition
Boston's political landscape is reacting to a significant development as the House Ways and Means Committee pushed through Mayor Michelle Wu’s contentious business tax proposal on Tuesday. In what's seen as a compromise, the bill received a favoring "yeas" from 132 members against 24 "nays," as reported by Boston 25 News. The legislation aims at empowering the Mayor's office to adjust the commercial and residential property tax ratio in response, to the city's projected economic shifts. It modifies the current structure allowing a maximum commercial shift to 175 percent, proposing an increase up to 190 percent, slightly lower than the original 200 percent target, over three years instead of five.
Kentucky suspends Radiology Group CEO's license
The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure has suspended the license of Anand P. Lalaji, MD, CEO of The Radiology Group, saying that the teleradiologist overlooked several imaging findings. The ruling stems from a complaint submitted in November 2023 alleging that Lalaji violated the board's statutes governing the practice of medicine...
Two injured after vehicle hits tree in Spencer County
HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – The Spencer County Sheriff’s Office says a teenage driver was extricated from a vehicle and a juvenile was injured following an accident on Silverdale Road on Tuesday. According to the sheriff’s office, 18-year-old Ayla Romans was driving down Silverdale Road when her vehicle left the roadway struck a tree and went […]
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