Does Beshear’s data center executive order have ‘teeth' without state law to back it up? • Kentucky Lantern

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear stood firm behind the power of his executive order he issued seeking to limit the impacts of data centers eyeing Kentucky. Experts aren't so sure.

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A mugshot turns a Kentucky data center dispute personal between an activist and a developer  • Kentucky Lantern

A data center protester says she was threatened by a data center developer trying to bring a major project to Mercer County.

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A county's data center moratorium doesn’t include a small city considering huge project • Kentucky Lantern

On Tuesday, the Mercer County Fiscal Court passed a one-year moratorium on data center construction, the latest turn over months of tumultuous debate in the rural county over whether the community sho...

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New bobcat regulations are 'a bad way to do the public’s business' • Kentucky Lantern

“Are the KY wildcats in trouble?” That wasn’t a sports headline in the Kentucky Lantern, which doesn’t cover my University of Kentucky Wildcats, or any kind of sports. But the headline caught my atten...

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ICE to outfit agents with electric shock gloves from KY company in $20 million no-bid contract • Kentucky Lantern

Federal immigration agents may soon be outfitted with a device – electrical shock gloves – manufactured by a Kentucky company.

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Attorney general appoints CEOs with coal industry ties to energy planning agency • Kentucky Lantern

Republican Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is appointing the former CEO of electric utility East Kentucky Power Cooperative and a CEO of a barge company, both with coal industry ties, to a c...

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KY legislators legalized hunting bobcats at night. Experts worry about ‘overharvesting.’ • Kentucky Lantern

Chet Hayes thinks Kentucky has a decent bobcat population but it's hard to know exactly how many there are.

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Missouri voters reject income tax phaseout, initiative petition changes • Missouri Independent

Missouri voters resoundingly rejected major Republican priorities on Tuesday as proposals to eliminate the income tax and change the way majorities are counted lost by large margins across the state.

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Data centers need massive power. They’re eyeing Kentucky’s idle industrial sites to get it. • Kentucky Lantern

Local economic development directors see an opportunity for new life at languishing industrial sites. But one environmental attorney has a warning.

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Renee Shaw has no regrets (and plenty of gas left in the tank) • Kentucky Lantern

Renee Shaw reflects on 29 years as a journalist at Kentucky Educational Television.

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Barbecue and Kentucky campaign previews are on the menu for Saturday’s Fancy Farm Picnic • Kentucky Lantern

The Fancy Farm Picnic is where Kentucky politicians go if they want to get a boost ahead of an upcoming election — whether on stage or not.

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Col. Sanders auction, with fried chicken recipe, Nixon letters, nets $300,000 • Kentucky Lantern

The auction of items from one of the most widely known Kentuckians — Colonel Harland Sanders — generated nearly $300,000 in sales.

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Beshear tour to support his upcoming book. Two stops are in states with early primaries. • Kentucky Lantern

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear will go on a tour starting in September to promote his upcoming book, “Go and Do Likewise.”

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Woman detained by ICE is not getting proper medical care in a Kentucky jail, brother says • Kentucky Lantern

A brother of a woman detained by federal immigration agents in Louisville said she has been denied proper medical care for sickle cell anemia while being held in a Kentucky jail.

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Andy Beshear Set Out to Make Drug Treatment Widely Available in Kentucky. Fraud and Abuse Followed.

In 2020 as Kentucky faced a spike of deadly overdoses, Gov. Andy Beshear set out to help more people access drug treatment by loosening Medicaid spending controls. But as the costs piled up, so did th...

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McConnell shares second photo amid absence, says he will not attend Kentucky political event • Kentucky Lantern

Amid his prolonged absence from the U.S. Senate after he was hospitalized last month, Kentucky Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell said he will not attend the Fancy Farm Picnic this weekend.  McConne...

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Despite calls for Beshear to ‘do something’ about Mitch McConnell, the answer isn’t so simple • Kentucky Lantern

A lot of people are asking Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear to “do something” about U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s absence from the Senate.

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Developer proposes hyperscale data center at former Eastern Kentucky steel mill • Kentucky Lantern

An international company wants to build a hyperscale data center in Eastern Kentucky.

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McConnell moves to a rehabilitation center after hospital stay, shares photo with wife • Kentucky Lantern

Kentucky U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell said in a Sunday statement he fell before he was hospitalized last month and he has moved from being a hospital patient to “a rehabilitation center where I’ll keep r...

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Editor’s Notebook: Civics centers, audits, lawsuits. The usual education drama • Kentucky Lantern

As usual, political shenanigans around education are a bipartisan game, fun for everyone except those most affected, our kids.

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Analysis shows evidence of 'asphalt monopoly' in Fayette County, think tank argues • Kentucky Lantern

A new analysis of state road paving contracts shows that some asphalt companies receive a large share of "inflated" single-bid contracts.

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Beshear asks McConnell to update Kentuckians about his health after June hospitalization • Kentucky Lantern

Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear is asking Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell to provide a public update on his health.

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Utility regulator launches investigation into 'troubling' Kentucky Power planning practices • Kentucky Lantern

Kentucky’s utility regulator has launched an investigation into concerns it has about "troubling" managerial and planning practices at Kentucky Power.

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Where better to celebrate 1776 than Seventy Six, Kentucky? • Kentucky Lantern

If the increasing turmoil in Washington makes you worry about our country’s future as we prepare to mark the 250th anniversary of its independence, come with me to Seventy Six.

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