The #Senate is working to pass a $95.3 billion foreign aid bill with assistance for #Ukraine and #Israel, but it may be days until a final vote as #GOP Sen. Rand #Paul of #Kentucky has vowed to use arcane and complex chamber rules to slow the pace of passing a bill.
#Ohio Department of #Health warns of #measles exposure at Cincinnati/Northern #Kentucky International #Airport (CVG) in Terminal A during certain times on January 27 &again on January 29
The exposure announced by ODH is tied to a Montgomery County child who has become the state's first measles case in 2024. Ohio had just one measles case in 2023, but an outbreak in 2022 fueled more than 90 cases in Ohio, mainly central Ohio
"When Debra calls back to tell me the recipe, I don’t allow her to tell me how to mix the ingredients. I want the muscle memory in my body to guide me back across the back roads of Kentucky to Indian Creek into the screen door of our grandmother’s kitchen." —Crystal Wilkinson for Oxford American
“A few months before his death, he noticed a lot of safety concerns within the pilot group he was working with at Toyota,” said Garcia’s wife, Kristen Poe. “He brought them up to team leaders who are responsible for bringing up these things to group leaders. They were not reported, and the day of his death, he was very concerned about moving these heavy steel lockers because it is considered a contractor’s job. He was told to do it anyway.”
"In Kentucky, politicians are preparing to vote on a law that would authorize the use of force against unhoused people who are found to be camping on private property."
A Republican lawmaker is withdrawing and refiling a bill that would have added “sexual contact” to Kentucky’s incest statute because of a filing error that struck first cousins from the list of relationships that legally qualify as incest in the state.
Kentucky Republican Pushes Bill to Make Sex With First Cousin Not Incest. While, two adults of the same sex having a private happy relationship is just too much for the GOP.
"The amendment would also reduce the designation of incest by contact to a Class D felony for some cases "unless it is committed with a person who is less than twelve years of age," in which case it is Class C."
I support Rep. Nick Wilson's (R-KY) bill to allow sex between brothers and sisters, parents and children. It will hasten the demise of the Republican Party.
"...The amendment would also reduce the designation of incest by contact to a Class D #Felony for some cases...
"....[House Bill 269 sponsor Nick] Wilson, then a 27-year-old public defender, first shot to prominence when he won the 37th season of the #CBS reality TV show #Survivor in 2018..."
Kentucky electric cars now pay two taxes where gas cars only pay one
'First, EVs will have to pay an additional $120 registration fee every year, over and above the normal registration fees for all vehicles....But on top of this, public EV charging stations in Kentucky now have to pay an additional 3 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity distributed, and an additional 3 cents for those chargers that are on state property."
“Former county clerk Kim Davis, who refused to issue marriage licenses in #Kentucky to same-sex couples, must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, according to a federal judge’s ruling.
Ky. lawmaker blames filing error on bill that would have legalized sex between first cousins (www.lpm.org)
A Republican lawmaker is withdrawing and refiling a bill that would have added “sexual contact” to Kentucky’s incest statute because of a filing error that struck first cousins from the list of relationships that legally qualify as incest in the state.
Kentucky Republican pushes bill to make sex with first cousin not incest (www.newsweek.com)
The bill would remove first cousins from the list of family members with whom it's illegal to have sexual relations in the state....