Good job alert 🚨 The Herald-Leader is hiring a "campus community reporter" to cover all things UK. mcclatchy.rec.pro.ukg.net/MCC1008MCLTC...

From the first debate of KY's 2026 election season: Republican KY-06 candidates Ralph Alvarado & Ryan Dotson pretty much agreed with each other & their support for Trump. www.kentucky.com/article31485...

Rep. Andy Barr says his campaign HQ for US Senate in Kentucky was vandalized this afternoon. Lexington PD is investigating, says suspect ID & charges are pending. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Kentucky voters have rejected three of the last four constitutional amendments proposed by the GOP legislature. Now, the Senate president wants to change how amendment questions appear on the ballot. Voters would have to sign off on the change. From @austin-horn.bsky.social:

New: "Faith & Fairness" were the driving themes of yesterday's gathering of LGBTQ activists in Frankfort. It's also the punchiest way to describe Beshear's presidential bid posture on social issues. "I’ll keep standing up to him, or them, because I believe in you." www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

A notable moment post-House budget committee, where they advanced the $31B state budget: - press goes up to A&R chair/bill sponsor Jason Petrie - comms says "1 question" (we assume it's joke) - @joesonka.lpm.org asks Q, answer given - comms says they really meant it, shuffles Petrie out

New: A House Committee just passed a new version of the KY executive branch budget. It's not posted publicly yet, but you can get the details (and see the committee sub itself) here. They addressed concerns about state employee insurance & ed spending. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Gov Andy Beshear about to headline the KY Fairness Rally this afternoon. Crowd getting warmed up by performances from Carol Kraemer-Straub & drag queen May O'Nays.

Fayette's school board continuing to be very, very, very messy.

Bulleit parent Diageo cuts dividend after sales down 2.8% for the first half of the year, tanking spirits stocks including Brown-Forman.

KY SOS Michael Adams on GOP gov race 2027: "I’m authentic, and I’m the only person who’s not a bootlicker and thinking for myself and being my own man — I think voters like that." (Rep. James Comer is widely seen as a leading candidate for gov in 2027) www.kentucky.com/news/article...

Godspeed to the man in this airport bathroom stall listening out loud to a devotional on Jesus’ dark night of the soul.

A bill is moving in the KY legislature to ban AI from acting as your therapist. "We’ve all seen and read horror stories where therapy bots have led clients to some very dark and sometimes deadly places." www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

New: Both Kentucky's Senators applaud SCOTUS' tariff ruling. The leading GOP candidates to replace Mitch McConnell don't. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Republican-backed bill establishing a statewide public charter school system was unconstitutional. It was unanimous. Breaking news from @austin-horn.bsky.social & @vh-s.bsky.social:

New - McConnell's approps swan song: a record $2.5 billion for KY projects. It contrasts with Rand Paul, who opposes federal "earmarks." "I made the decision to help my state in every way possible. Others have chosen differently & that’s their decision." www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Quite a few Republicans say they would vote no on the current KY House budget, citing low ed funding & state health plan effects. “Rest assured I have seen your emails, messages and appreciate your calls,” one posted on Facebook. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

the two types of vehicle are cars and trucks, with every vehicle being a subclass of one of those two. a jeep is a truck. a motorcycle is obviously a car. a boat is a truck. an airplane is a car and a helicopter is a truck. trucks are cars, interestingly enough, and cars are a specific type of chair

New: In letter to state lawmakers, KY cabinet head warns current House GOP budget would be "devastating" for the 6.8% of KYians on a state health plan. Projects a shortfall in the hundreds of millions that would lead to premium increases or benefit cuts. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

KY US Senate Democratic candidate Dale Romans goes full “Driving Crooner” in latest fundraising text

New: A bill allowing KY health care providers to decline care based on "medical conscience" is moving again in the KY legislature. Here are the details & debate from this morning. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell has been released from the hospital after an 8-day stay. He will work from home this week on advice of doctors, according to a spokesperson. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Kentucky is in the Epstein Files. We found that: - Epstein's pilot was an EKU grad - A man with the same name as a popular crypto/wealth influencer gave Epstein associates a "database of 18-24 y/o friends" - Epstein didn't like McConnell - much more www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

A pretty substantial debate on immigration held among (mostly) Republican KY state senators on the floor today. Pretty much everyone agreed: the rhetoric needs to chill out. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Paging Donald Trump: Rep. Andy Barr endorsed Trump-backed Ed Gallrein over NKY Rep. Thomas Massie today. 30 minutes later, Nate Morris followed suit. "I think it has more to do with Trump (than the electorate)." www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Somehow just now learning that Centre College got "Scott's Tots"d out of a $250M gift in 2013 www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sapn...

The race between Rep. Thomas Massie and Trump-endorsed Ed Gallrein is attracting many millions already. Basically none of that money comes from Kentucky donors. Here are the numbers: www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

New KY Senate GOP poll from Emerson/Fox56: Barr - 24 Cameron - 21 Morris - 14 undecideds - 38 Details & background here. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Survey from the Morris campaign* of 800 likely KY GOP voters: Cameron - 29 Barr - 21 Morris - 18 * - internal, so "grain of salt," etc. etc. nypost.com/2026/02/04/u...

New: Amy McGrath raised 1M+ in Q4, we have a surprise cash on hand leader & why one candidate inaccurately reported they raised $750k+ in a week when the number was more like $425k. “Some commits were mistakenly included in the number released.” www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

City of Lexington spokesperson: "I think this is low, gutter-level journalism.” www.kentucky.com/news/local/c...

Mayor Gorton appointed former @kentucky.com columnist and managing editor Tom Eblen to fill the vacant 3rd District Council seat. He'll serve in the role through December of this year. www.kentucky.com/news/local/c...

The settlement between Rep. Daniel Grossberg and the KY Legislative Ethics Commission yesterday kept those who were subpoenaed to testify from doing so publicly. Here's some of what they would have said. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

New: Here's what Rep. Daniel Grossberg agreed to a public reprimand and $2k in fines for. Several people showed up to testify against Grossberg. Because of the settlement, they didn't get to speak. You can read the agreed order in this story. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

New: Here's what Rep. Daniel Grossberg agreed to a public reprimand and $2k in fines for. Several people showed up to testify against Grossberg. Because of the settlement, they didn't get to speak. You can read the agreed order in this story. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

They're out of executive session. Grossberg is waiving the adjudicatory hearing and accepting a settlement with the commission. No public hearing. Public reprimand coming.

They're out of executive session. Grossberg is waiving the adjudicatory hearing and accepting a settlement with the commission. No public hearing.

Frankfort press is currently parked outside a committee room for the KY Legislative Ethics Commission's scheduled public hearing into ethics charges against Rep. Daniel Grossberg. The commission just went into executive session to discuss "a potential agreement."

KY-06 fundraising: Zach Dembo keeps pacing the Dem field (big surge from the Louisville area), Alvarado in a similar place on GOP side & much more here. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

KY US Senate finances: Heavy hitter billionaires Marc Andreessen, Jamie Dimon & Charles Schwab line up behind Andy Barr. Current poll leader Daniel Cameron's fundraising woes continue, but he says "money can't vote." ... & Elon Musk looms in the distance. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Happy FEC report weekend. KY-04 Rep. Thomas Massie's GOP primary competitor Ed Gallrein brought in $1.2M+ last quarter. By my count, only $32,095 came from Kentucky donors. That's 2.6%. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Local Angle: Trump's fed pick Kevin Warsh served for 6 years on an advisory board for Rubicon Global. Rubicon was founded by KY Republican US Senate candidate Nate Morris. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Sexual harassment is not explicitly in the KY Legislative Ethics code. One state lawmaker, with the case of Rep Daniel Grossberg in mind (state party, gov called on him to resign after our reports on harassment allegations), filed a bill to change that. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Faucets left on to prevent frozen pipes have drawn down water tanks in Booneville and Hazard "A tank that supplies water to a hospital, long-term veterans care facility and the regional jail in Perry County is at a critically low level." www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...

KY Gov. Andy Beshear files a motion to dismiss the Lexington Herald-Leader's lawsuit seeking his calendar. "A schedule is an expectation or plan, never a final record of what occurred, even if it accurately reflects what occurred." www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s office is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Herald-Leader in an effort to access his calendar. The administration argues the 30-year-old appellate court case used to withhold calendars is the "practical, workable, reasoned & only approach.”

$3 million to the neighborhood HOA and negative 300 units later, a big student housing complex gets approval near UK's campus. www.kentucky.com/news/local/a...

The big school district financial transparency bill gets bipartisan support in the KY legislature. It's posted for a vote on the Senate floor Monday. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Mark Pope says that Jayden Quaintance is in "full shutdown" mode currently and isn't practicing. Pope says Quaintance is out for Saturday's game at Arkansas "unless he gets better."

My latest: A company wanting to build a huge data center in rural Kentucky has faced road blocks from city/county government, so now it is suing the county. The end user of the proposed data center remains anonymous. #kyga26