Supporters of HB 5 - known as the Safer Kentucky Act to its proponents - will have a 'ceremonial signing' Monday.

Kentucky Senate Education Committee members, many of them Republicans, showed support Friday for the commissioner of education nominee as he prepares for the first Senate confirmation of that post.

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Senate President Robert Stivers said the anti-DEI in higher ed bill is posted to the orders of the day for Monday.

Even if the Senate does concur with House changes, this is largely for show as Gov. Andy Beshear has indicated he is against this bill. kentucky.com/news/politics-…

A prosecutor in an Eastern Kentucky county has been arrested on a criminal complaint charging he helped people facing criminal charges in return for sex and methamphetamine. ^AH
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HB 517, which makes changes to the KY Legislative Ethics Commission (namely allowing them to dismiss ethics complaints a little earlier), gets a final veto override with one GOP crossover 'no' vote (Southworth).

Kentucky prosecutor helped court defendants in exchange for sex and meth, law enforcement records allege tinyurl.com/5hevwdzx ^JC

𝓚𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓬𝓴𝔂 𝓗𝓸𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝓭𝓮𝓫𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓼 𝓫𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓻𝓮𝓺𝓾𝓲𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓮 𝓽𝓪𝓾𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓾𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓬 𝓼𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓵𝓼. ^𝓙𝓒

The Safer Kentucky Act - HB 5 - includes criminal penalties for public homelessness. The Ky Leg is overriding Gov. Beshear's veto today.

On April 22, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a similar ban on outdoor sleeping in Oregon. tinyurl.com/2dwjfdvb ^JC

In the Senate Education Committee now, members are being introduced to Robbie Fletcher, the Kentucky Board of Education's pick for the next commissioner.

Due to a new law, Fletcher must be confirmed by the Senate.

Background: kentucky.com/news/local/edu…

Disgraced Owsley County clerk, who replaced the previous disgraced Owsley County clerk, pleads guilty to criminal charges and resigns. Third time's the charm, Owsley County. shorturl.at/intvS ^JC

Ky Senate just overrode Beshear's veto of a GOP bill that will make it harder to close coal-fired power plants.

Lead sponsor Sen. Robby Mills, R-Henderson, said his bill 'puts the welfare of Kentucky families above ideological partisanship.'

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It took me 26.59 seconds to open a new tab, navigate to KREF contributions search and get the one (1) result for 'Robbie Fletcher' that came back.

Ky House is zipping through overrides of Gov. Beshear's vetoes, with a few brief Democratic protests. Here is the override vote just taken on HB 5, the crime bill. ^JC

The KY Open Records Act is pivotal to the citizens of KY. Don't take for granted the access we have to public records because it wasn't always that way, and HB 509 will set us back. Bluegrass Politics breaks how the act has exposed corruption over the years: kentucky.com/news/politics-…

With a budget of more than $800 million, provided by the public, the Fayette County Public Schools might consider the value of sharing public documents with the public ahead of public votes, rather than 'after it is approved.' ^JC

“You can have it after it is approved.” Fayette County school board votes to amend superintendent's contract, but mum's the word on what it did.

Man, if only our tax dollars paid for all this, maybe we would be entitled to know. tinyurl.com/bymudrus ^JC

Please, just for a minute, put a tiny bit of the care and critical thinking that Kentuckians have focused on the UK men's basketball coach search on something that Frankfort lawmakers (including Gov Beshear) would prefer you ignore:
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People: Cal staying? Cal leaving? How many millions? OMG Where’s he going?! Who are we getting? etc et etc

Also people: Our legislature meets every year now? When did that start.

'He also texted that to Superintendent Marty Pollio and said he was on his way to the meeting, Pollio said during the meeting.'

Oh look, public officials using text messages concerning government work.

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Tonight at 8/7 on KET's 'Comment on Kentucky,' it's John Cheves of the Lexington Herald-Leader, McKenna Horsley of the Kentucky Lantern and Joe Sonka of Kentucky Public Radio. ^JC