By Linda Blackford | Editor
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Electricity transmission lines reach across the Ohio River and connect to the Mill Creek Generating Station in Jefferson County. (Liam Niemeyer/Kentucky Lantern)
By Liam Niemeyer
Environmental advocates who keep a close eye on utility and energy policy in Kentucky say despite those assurances from Beshear, he’s not directly in charge on whether the impacts of large data centers will put upward pressure on Kentuckians’ electricity bills.
Kentucky leaders could do so much more to ease child poverty, which would help with other outcomes like education, Terry Brooks argues. (Photo by Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images)
COMMENTARY
By Tery Brooks
I have dug into KIDS COUNT data for more than two decades and I have no doubt – the seminal data point is childhood poverty. It undergirds the current status of every other indicator. Economic well-being impacts academic achievement, health outcomes, and family stability.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Email from Bevin’s account accuses estranged son of trying to ‘shake parents down for money’
COMMENTARY OF THE WEEK
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