(Lancaster, KY - March 18, 2021) - On Sunday, March 21, Garrard County High School senior and local country crooner Alex Miller will return to the ‘American Idol’ stage. With the audition rounds finally over and the final golden tickets handed out it is now time for judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan to test contestants to their limit and narrow down the competition.
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(WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 12, 2021) — Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, and Congressman Kurt Schrader (OR-05), Health Subcommittee member, introduced the Protecting Access to Safe and Effective Medicines Act.
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(Lancaster, Ky - March 11, 2021) - Windstream, a privately held communications and software company who provides internet service in Garrard County, has submitted its application to receive $43 million over 10 years in the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase I auction to bring fiber to-the-home internet services to more than 15,700 locations in Kentucky.
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(WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 10, 2021) - Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02) released the following statement after voting against the final version of the partisan $1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill.
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(Lancaster, Ky - March 8, 2021) - Atmos Energy understands customer concerns that the recent extreme weather may affect their natural gas bills, so we want to assure customers that bills in the near-term will not include any of the unusually high gas prices from the historic winter storms.
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(Lancaster, Ky - February 17, 2021) — Blue Grass Community Action Partnership (BGCAP) announced its BGCAP Transit service will immediately begin offering free transportation to and from two regional COVID-19 vaccination sites. Residents within the BGCAP 11-county service territory are eligible to reserve an appointment for round-trip transportation from their home to either the Kentucky Horse Park or Ephraim McDowell Hospital. Those 11 counties are: Anderson, Boyle, Casey, Franklin, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Mercer, Scott, Washington and Woodford.
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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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