GOP attorneys general dispute climate science, urge end to greenhouse gas regs Kentucky AG Russell Coleman joins Trump to ‘stop the madness’ @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/23/g...

Trump and RFK Jr. are making claims about autism. What do medical experts say? @jennifershutt.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/23/r...

The Ohio River Way's designation as a National Water Trail is legitimately extremely cool and the result of a ton of work by legions of people. Check it out if you're anywhere nearby!

"Your countries are going to hell." Trump attacked the U.N. numerous times throughout his speech, including for what he claimed were a faulty escalator and teleprompter. @ashleymurray.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/23/r...

On a recent September afternoon, I climbed into a canoe on the shores of Louisville — and pushed off onto the Ohio River Way. www.lpm.org/investigate/...

NEW: Premium costs on kynect will skyrocket soon unless Congress acts. Changes in the OBBBA and the failure to extend subsidies will double premiums for some Kentuckians and make marketplace coverage too expensive for 18K people. Most will become uninsured. kypolicy.org/aca-marketpl...

Cheaper renewable energy runs headlong into a lack of transmission capacity and political hostility from Republican states. minnesotareformer.com/2025/09/23/r...

Trump’s $100K fee for H-1B visas could have ‘huge’ effect on tech industry kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/23/r...

Schumer and Jeffries formally announce meeting with Trump this week, ahead of Oct. 1 government shutdown deadline.

Close to 5M could become uninsured if Congress doesn’t extend subsidies, report says @chatlanis.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/23/r...

Confused about COVID-19 vaccine? Check with your primary care provider, say KY doctors. @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/23/c...

Cornbread Hemp, a Kentucky company, is suing Tennessee alcohol regulators, saying new rules for the state's hemp industry violate protections for interstate sales and advertising. www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/se...

The FCC-Jimmy Kimmel brouhaha is putting the commission's lone Democrat in the spotlight. Anna Gomez spoke out against censorship during a visit to Eastern Kentucky this summer. @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/06/18/p...

The organization that manages the electric grid for Pennsylvania and 12 other states has moved too slowly in response to skyrocketing energy demand and consumers are paying for it, Gov. Josh Shapiro said Monday. From @petehallpa.bsky.social

A Ball State University employee who lost her job after she posted about the late Charlie Kirk will use Indiana’s courts to litigate the case. indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/22/a...

Trump ties autism to Tylenol use in pregnancy despite inconclusive scientific evidence @jennifershutt.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/22/r...

Planned Parenthood’s leadership has “no plans” to close its two Kentucky locations following a judge’s ruling that the government can block Medicaid funding to the organization for a year. via @kentuckylantern.com

"We have no plans to close our Louisville or Lexington health centers," Rebecca Gibron, the CEO of @ppaawest.bsky.social, said during an exclusive sit-down interview with the @kentuckylantern.com last week. MORE: kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/22/p...

PPAA CEO Jennifer M. Allen: “We’ve got to figure out how to assure that we have a basic level of expectation of health as a part of basic human rights, as a part of human decency." (1/3)

The latest in East Kentucky Power Cooperative v. Berea College By Whitney McKnight, The Edge kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/22/j...

Who gets to define Trumpism in McConnell's Kentucky? Commentary by Kaden Chiles kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/22/w...

Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Newspaper madness: Kansas prisons spin fearmongering drug tales to restrict information #ksleg

Planned Parenthood in Kentucky reports caring for 4,861 patients a year in more than 8,000 visits The health centers in Lexington and Louisville will keep their doors open even with the loss of Medicaid funding. @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/22/p...

President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and several Cabinet officials speak at a five-hour memorial ceremony for the late conservative political activist Charlie Kirk. @ashleymurray.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/21/r...

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul says FCC Chairman Brandon Carr’s criticism of comedian Jimmy Kimmel was “absolutely inappropriate.” “The FCC was wrong to weigh in. And I’ll fight any — any — attempt by the government to get involved with speech. I will fight." kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/21/r...

Kentucky auditor subpoenas health cabinet over kinship care after judge tossed lawsuit @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/briefs/kentu...

Resolution honoring Charlie Kirk passed in US House in bipartisan vote kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/19/r...

Devon Archer, Trevor Milton and Carlos Watson were convicted in fraud schemes totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, they will not be required to pay back victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky is one of two Republicans voting no on stopgap spending bill. @jennifershutt.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/19/r...

Commentary by Al Cross Perhaps the best place for good women and men to do something about the current crisis is not on social media, but face to face, one on one and in small groups — where there is at least a modicum of trust and respect. kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/19/w...

A Kentucky Republican is hoping to define grooming of a child in state law and criminalize it under a proposal she presented Thursday. @mckennahorsley.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/18/p...

Andy Wolfson, journalist whose beat was justice, dies in Louisville @dyetter.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/18/a...

Louisville Republican Rep. Jason Nemes wants Kentucky’s legislature to prohibit the sale and distribution of parts that convert semiautomatic firearms to fully automatic, known as machine gun conversion devices. @mckennahorsley.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/18/l...

‘Crumbled like a house of cards’: Judge slams DOJ claims about deporting migrant children @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/18/r...

DACA recipients swept up in Trump mass deportation campaign, advocates report @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/18/r...

Jefferson County Public Schools in Kentucky announced a surprising unintended consequence of a new statewide cellphone ban. The number of books checked out had skyrocketed compared with last year, before the ban was instituted. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill have entered a stalemate over whether to fund the government for seven weeks or begin a shutdown that could last considerably longer, amid high partisan tensions. @jennifershutt.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/18/r...

Tennessee GOP lawmakers vote to end equal opportunity employment rules in state government   tennesseelookout.com/2025/09/18/t...

West Kentucky counselors defend school mental health screenings amid criticism from RFK Jr. www.paducahsun.com/news/counsel...

Why did the modern Civil Rights Movement start in Montgomery? Because there was an activist network in the city that had been working for decades — Rosa Parks but also E.D. Nixon and Jo Ann Robinson — that had already scored some small victories, particularly with voter registration.

Protesters rally against $12B cut to education in Trump plan, US House bill kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/17/r...

Auditor Allison Ball says KY mismanaged $800 million, paying Medicaid managed care organizations at the same time other states were paying for the same patients. KY health chief Dr. Steven Stack calls it “rehash” of what federal investigators found in 2022. kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/17/a...

Former CDC chief says she was fired for resisting RFK Jr. orders on vaccines @jennifershutt.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/17/r...

apnews.com/article/char... disinformation about Charlie Kirk's killing seeks to widen US divisions

Rural Georgia hospital plans to close its labor and delivery unit, in part due to Medicaid cuts georgiarecorder.com/2025/09/17/r...

The moves represent an extraordinary state rebellion against the public health authority of the federal government. @chatlanis.bsky.social @stateline.org kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/17/r...

Kentucky lawmakers heard an update on a law passed earlier this year that allows school boards to apply for waivers for “schools of innovation” and subcontract their management to outside entities such as charter school operators. @mckennahorsley.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/17/n...

ICYMI from @kentuckylantern.com: A Kentucky Republican lawmaker is criticizing a University of Louisville employee for a Facebook post she made after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was gunned down last week while speaking at a college in Utah. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/repu...

A prescription for suicide prevention Commentary by Connie Mendel and Dr. Inder Signal, Louisville Metro Department of Health kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/17/a...