By Linda Blackford | Editor
Happy Monday! This morning, you should read a deep dive by reporter McKenna Horsley on how nearly every county or community in Kentucky got a project funded with one-time dollars in the rainy day fund. This was all passed in April, at the end of the General Assembly session.
A lot of those leaders were in Lexington on Saturday evening for the annual Lincoln Dinner, sponsored by the Republican Party of Kentucky. The speeches were aimed at rallying the troops to victory in November, reports correspondent Liz Carey.
I promised you I’d return to the topic of Juneteenth, so check back later this morning on www.kentuckylantern.com.
Have a great week, and thanks, as always for reading.
Polar bear at the Louisville Zoo in March 2024. (Sarah Ladd/Kentucky Lantern)
By McKenna Horsley
The Republican-controlled Kentucky General Assembly backed a multitude of one-time spending projects this year — $5 million for the Louisville Zoo to build a trail system, $11 million to construct a convention center in Frankfort, millions to help small counties and cities restore or replace aging water systems.
U.S. Rep Andy Barr addressed the crowd at the GOP Lincoln Dinner. Barr is running for U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s seat against Democrat Charles Booker. (Liz Carey/Kentucky Lantern)
By Liz Carey
The message from the Kentucky GOP in the upcoming election cycle will focus around three tenets – faith, family and freedom. That’s the message nearly 1,000 GOP faithful heard at the Republican Party of Kentucky’s Statewide Lincoln Dinner Saturday night at the Central Bank Center.
Various birth control pills available at a Planned Parenthood in Austin, Texas. The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association and a family planning organization in Pennsylvania sued the Trump administration on Thursday alleging that it is politicizing the Title X grant funding program. (Todd Wiseman/The Texas Tribune)
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris
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