At just 17 years of age, Alex Miller has already made a name for himself on the local music scene. On February 14, the Garrard County High School senior will make his nationwide debut. The classic country crooner is set to be featured on the season 19 premiere of the hit ABC show American Idol.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (Jan. 7, 2021) – On Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear announced nearly 5,000 new COVID-19 cases in the commonwealth’s second-highest daily report – yesterday’s report was the highest-ever – and the state’s highest positivity rate since May 5.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (Thursday, December 10, 2020) - State Budget Director John Hicks reported today that General Fund receipts fell 3.8 percent in November compared to last year. Total revenues for the month were $1,006.5 million compared to $1,046.1 million during November 2019, a decrease of $39.6 million, primarily due to a $34.8 million decline in property tax receipts. Receipts have now risen 3.1 percent for the first five months of the fiscal year, and must increase 0.3 percent over the final seven months of FY21 to meet the recently adopted official revenue estimate of $11,729.0 million.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (Dec. 10, 2020) – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s (KYTC) Office of Highway Safety is joining the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and law enforcement nationwide in the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign Dec. 16, 2020 through Jan. 1, 2021.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Brett Guthrie’s (KY-02) Ceiling Fan Improvement Act (H.R. 5758) passed in the U.S. House of Representatives today by a vote of 396 to 2. This commonsense bill would update energy conservation standards from the Department of Energy (DOE) to better regulate and acknowledge the efficiency of large-diameter fans.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (December 9, 2020) – A 20-state coalition of attorneys general, led by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, this week filed an amicus brief before the United States Supreme Court in support of Attorney General Cameron’s ability to defend Kentucky’s law banning live dismemberment abortions (House Bill 454).
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02) released the following statement after the House passed the Mac Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA).
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (Dec. 9, 2020) – Today, Gov. Andy Beshear announced that while COVID-19 numbers in the commonwealth are still alarmingly high, Team Kentucky is making progress in its fight against the virus.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (Dec. 9, 2020) – Kentucky is joining a broad coalition of states – plus consumer and health care groups and health care providers – in the launch of Get Covered 2021. This is a national effort to encourage mask wearing and substantially increase the number of people with health coverage.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (December 9, 2020) – Attorney General Daniel Cameron today joined a bipartisan coalition of 48 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against Facebook Inc. (Facebook), alleging the social media giant engaged in anticompetitive business practices to protect its monopoly.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced today 139 Kentucky nursing homes received a total of $10,947,338 in additional federal funding to combat the coronavirus.
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(Lancaster, KY - November 19, 2020) — “Autism is often described as a cat living in a dog world, so you can imagine, it’s very hard,” 15-year-old Mason Cox described what it was like going through life on the autistic spectrum as he does.
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(LEXINGTON, Ky. - Nov. 20, 2020) — A new survey by AAA indicates that a large majority of Kentucky residents will not be traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday, and 36% of those staying home say it is because of COVID-19 concerns.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (Sept. 17, 2020) – Gov. Andy Beshear on Thursday updated Kentuckians on the state’s continuing efforts to fight the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19).
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(BEREA, KY - Sept. 17, 2020) – Saint Joseph Berea is 5-star rated for treatment of sepsis in 2020, and treatment of respiratory failure for the second year in a row, according to a national report released by Healthgrades, the leading online resource for information about physicians and hospitals. This achievement is part of the Healthgrades 2020 Report to the Nation, which underscores the importance of hospital quality to both consumers and hospital leaders. Every year, Healthgrades evaluates hospital performance at nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide for 32 of the most common inpatient procedures and conditions using Medicare data, and additionally analyzes outcomes in appendectomy and bariatric surgery using all-payer data provided by 15 states.
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(Lancaster, KY - Sept. 17, 2020) — The Garrard Arts Center has announced that their Blue Jean Gala has been rescheduled to May 15, 2021.
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(WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sept. 17, 2020) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding election security:
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (Sept. 17, 2020) - Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted preliminary August 2020 unemployment rate was 7.6 percent, according to the Kentucky Center for Statistics (KYSTATS), an agency within the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet (EWDC).
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(September 17, 2020) — Despite living through the longest economic expansion on record, before COVID-19, 16.3% of Kentuckians were still living below the poverty line and median state incomes were relatively stagnant, according to new 2019 Census data from the American Community Survey (ACS) released today. The numbers reflect a recovery following the Great Recession that ultimately did not reach all Kentuckians.
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