By Linda Blackford | Editor
Good morning! Tuesday was wild, as the last day of the U.S. Supreme Court tends to be: birthright citizenship will stand for now, but trans athletes are still banned from playing fields.
But here in the commonwealth, the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy made its own news with a report showing that despite millions of dollars awarded to cities and counties to help solve the opioid crisis, they’ve only spent about 10 percent of it. The report also found some of the little spending that’s happened has been less than ideal. Sarah Ladd had the story.
Auditor Allison Ball released an audit of Jefferson County Public Schools, which seems to find that bad communication is the source of many ills.
The Kentuckians hit by flooding this weekend now have to clean up in terrible heat. Officials want all of us to take it easy, which is easier said than done when mold is crawling up the walls.
And the former provost of UK has some choice words about the new civics center the General Assembly added there at the last minute of the session.
There’s much more inside the Kentucky Lantern. Just click on the home page. Thanks for reading!
Narcan is an opioid reversal treatment. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Sarah Ladd).
By Sarah Ladd
Local governments in receipt of opioid settlement dollars are sitting on most of the money, according to a Tuesday analysis from The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy.
A teacher waves to her students as they get off the bus at Carter Traditional Elementary School in Louisville on Jan. 24, 2022, in this file photo. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)
By McKenna Horsley
Republican Kentucky Auditor Allison Ball’s office has released findings from its special examination of Jefferson County Public Schools, including the district “lacks a current and cohesive plan that outlines district priorities and goals.”
An online map show cooling centers across Kentucky. (Screenshot via Kentucky Emergency Management map)
By McKenna Horsley
Following a round of severe thunderstorms across the state, Kentuckians are now being warned to watch out for high temperatures.
COMMENTARY
By Kumble Subbaswamy
When the Kentucky General Assembly could not reconcile the House and Senate versions of Senate Bill 4 — a measure best known for restructuring the Jefferson and Fayette county school boards — its free conference committee added something neither chamber had debated: a Center for American Civics at the University of Kentucky. UK never asked for it; the university’s own spokesperson conceded it was “not a legislative priority.”
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