By Linda Blackford | Editor
Good morning! Earlier this year, Bell County passed a two-year moratorium on data centers until they had more time to consider a proposal by Murray Industries. As commentary writer Wayne Knuckles told us last week, residents’ concerns stem from historical problems with industry around Pineville.
But it’s not clear Murray Industries got the message. Reporter Liam Niemeyer has the details.
In other news, we’re reprinting the latest piece in the Propublica/Lexington Herald-Leader collaboration on the embattled Addiction Recovery Care. This time it focuses on Gov. Andy Beshear’s insistence on removing Medicaid restrictions on drug recovery in order to save lives, even as complaints rolled in about fraud and abuse from companies like ARC.
Beshear was also in the news for representing one of 25 states that sued the federal government over plans to Medicaid’s new work rules.
And in Commentary, former Poet Laureate Richard Taylor has some thoughts about an important word in our society: character.
Thanks for joining us this morning, and have a great day.
A view of Pineville, Kentucky, from Chained Rock in October 2023. (Photo by Sarah Ladd)
By Liam Niemeyer
A construction contractor says a hyperscale data center developer asked him to continue to clear Bell County land where a data center is planned, despite a two-year temporary ban on data center construction passed by the county government.
Gov. Andy Beshear, third from right, helps cut the ribbon on the new Addiction Recovery Care (ARC) Bellefonte Hospital & Recovery Center in Ashland on March 19, 2024. In the photo, ARC founder Tim Robinson is to Beshear’s right. Beshear advisor Rocky Adkins is next to Robinson. (Photo by Addiction Recovery Care)
By Alex Acquisto and Taylor Six
By the end of 2020, Kentucky’s newly elected Gov. Andy Beshear had one goal above all others: Keep people alive.
Rhode Island Democratic Attorney General Peter Neronha in Providence earlier this year. Rhode Island is one of 25 Democratic-led states that sued the Trump administration over new Medicaid work requirements. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)
By Nada Hassanein
States will have to meet a Jan. 1 deadline to implement new Medicaid work requirements, after a federal judge denied 25 Democratic-led states’ request to pause implementation of the rule.
George Washington (National Archives)
COMMENTARY
By Richard Taylor
Character. The word seems antique in these rancorous times, as rare as truth. As rare as objectivity and nuance in our political discourse.
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