FRANKFORT, Kentucky, May 24 -- The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet issued the following news on May 23, 2025: * * * Gov. Beshear Announces $800,000 to Improve Roadways and Support Seven Counties FRANKFORT, KY. (May 23, 2025) -Today, Gov. Andy Beshear and Energy and Environment Cabinet (EEC) Secretary Rebecca Goodman announced that $886,151 has been awarded to seven counties to improve the safety of area roadways and to support the reuse of waste tires through rubber-modified asphalt (  more

WASHINGTON, May 23 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release: * * * ICYMI: Trump and Kentucky GOP Sell Out Kentuckians to Benefit the Ultra-Wealthy Yesterday, House Republicans in Washington bent the knee to Donald Trump and passed a massive tax cut for the wealthiest Americans paid for by cutting critical health care and food access Kentuckians rely on. In Kentucky, more than 158,000 people are at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage. Additional  more

FRANKFORT, Kentucky, May 24 -- The Kentucky Democratic Party issued the following statement on May 22, 2025: * * * KDP Statement on Federal Budget That Hurts Kentucky's Most Vulnerable FRANKFORT, Ky. - Today, moments after Republican members of Kentucky's congressional delegation voted in favor of the largest cuts to health care and food assistance in U.S. history, Kentucky Democratic Party (KDP) Chair Colmon Elridge released the following statement on the House's passage of the harmful Trump  more

FRANKFORT, Kentucky, May 24 -- The Kentucky Public Service Commission has suspended the effective date of a new tariff proposed by East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc. that would establish a dedicated rate for data center power. The "Data Center Power Tariff (Rate DCP)," initially filed by EKPC on April 30, 2025, with a proposed effective date of June 1, 2025, will now be delayed for a five-month investigation, extending through October 31, 2025. The PSC determined that an investigation is nec  more

WASHINGTON, May 23 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release: * * * The Early Reviews Are In on the GOP Tax Scam and Voters are Not Pleased Even though House Republicans attempted to hide their betrayal to the American people by passing their Tax Scam in the dark of the night, it hasn't prevented the flood of negative news coverage showing the public how House Republicans abandoned working families to side with the billionaires and ultra-wealthy. Fro  more

BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky, May 24 -- Western Kentucky University issued the following news: * * * Nguyen Ngoc Minh Nguyen ('24) Awarded Fulbright US Student Grant Nguyen Ngoc Minh Nguyen has been selected for a Fulbright US Student Program English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) in Taiwan. A 2024 graduate in Chinese and Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), Nguyen will represent the United States as a cultural ambassador while working in English classrooms in Taiwan throughout the upcoming  more