By Linda Blackford | Editor
We’re getting back to regular life after the election, and today contributor Bill Estep brings us a story that reminds us the General Assembly will be coming back to Frankfort in a very short time. It turns out a bill lawmakers passed last year – vetoed by Gov. Beshear, then veto overridden by the General Assembly – has investor groups concerned, so concerned that they’re suing. The bill took aim at “ideological” investing, which unfortunately correlates with First Amendment free speech rights.
According to state officials, homelessness has gone down in some parts of Kentucky, but affordable housing is still a huge need across the state.
Sometimes water pollution is still punished – an oil well operator in Eastern Kentucky was fined for putting brine water into a stream.
And in Commentary, Jason Bailey looks at what voters said they wanted.
Have a wonderful week and thanks for reading!
Kentucky State Capitol in 2020 before construction project (Photo by Sarah Ladd)
By Bill Estep
Investor groups are challenging a Kentucky law they argue would make it harder for shareholders to push companies to consider climate change, diversity and other issues in their policies.
A tent where a homeless person lived is seen in a snowy camp on Dec. 23, 2022 in Louisville. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)
By Liam Niemeyer
The increasing rate of homelessness across Kentucky has slowed down compared to past years, but there are “still too many” people experiencing homelessness.
An oil pumpjack casts a shadow on a wall as it pulls oil from the Permian Basin oil field on March 14, 2022 in Odessa, Texas. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
By Bill Estep
A Kentucky oil well operator has been fined $20,000 after admitting he illegally discharged polluted water into a creek in northeast Kentucky.
The judge also sentenced Joshua Ferguson, of Martha, to serve 12 months on home detention.
Families face higher costs for rent, gas, health care, child care and other essentials. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
COMMENTARY
By Jason Bailey
For the second election in a row, voters made it clear that affordability is their chief concern. The inflation numbers show us why. Because of price hikes over the past two years, the median Kentucky household is now spending $4,127 more annually for the same goods and services than they were at the end of 2024.
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