By Linda Blackford | Editor
It’s just a coincidence that the day after I mentioned donations to help us pay for our open records case against UK, the Attorney General’s office called UK out for three more violations. Shouldn’t our flagship university be a bastion of transparency?
In other news, President Donald Trump and most of Kentucky’s congressional delegation talk a big game about helping the coal industry. They don’t seem as interested in helping coal miners. A resolution co-sponsored by Rep. Morgan McGarvey, D-Ky, would try to bring black lung benefits up to the modern age, but somehow it’s stuck in Congress.
The Kentucky Supreme Court has declined to reconsider its decision to stop the impeachment of Fayette Circuit Court Judge Julie Goodman.
And speaking of Lexington, a local woman almost died of sudden cardiac arrest at the Thriller Parade a few years ago, but was saved by CPR. Now she and her personal heroine are trying a new tack to save lives, and everyone can help.
Thanks so much for reading and supporting us. And Happy Friday!
A statue of the University of Kentucky’s mascot, a wildcat named “Bowman,” sits on the campus in Lexington. (Kentucky Lantern photo by McKenna Horsley)
By Lantern Staff
Attorney General Russell Coleman found the University of Kentucky to be in violation of Kentucky’s open records law in three different cases since August, showing the school’s continuing pattern of problems with the state law aimed at government transparency.
X-rays of a patient with black lung disease. (National Archives at College Park photo)
By Sarah Ladd
Gov. Andy Beshear asked Kentucky’s congressional delegation in a Thursday letter to throw their support behind a bill amending the Black Lung Benefits Act to “provide adequate benefits for miners suffering from black lung disease.”
Kentucky House Majority Whip Jason Nemes, R-Middletown, said while introducing impeachment articles against Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Goodman that judges “need not fear impeachment” if they are doing their job. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Liam Niemeyer)
By Lantern Staff
The Kentucky Supreme Court will not reconsider their decision that stopped the General Assembly from impeaching Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Goodman, according to a Thursday ruling.
Charlotte Callan and Sarah Katzenmaier are trying to map every AED in Lexington. Callan saved Katzenmaier’s life by doing CPR during the Thriller Parade, not knowing there was an AED inside the Kentucky Theater. (Photo provided)
COMMENTARY
By Sarah Katzenmaier
On Oct. 24, 2021, dressed as a zombie and dancing in Lexington’s annual Thriller Parade, I collapsed from sudden cardiac arrest and died in front of the Kentucky Theatre.
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