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Some Republican lawmakers are expressing concern over Flock cameras, with one member of leadership suggesting greater guardrails surrounding the powerful and controversial automated license plate readers, including requiring police to obtain a warrant before using such cameras to search for a license plate. “I think balance is what we need. But my fear is that we’re slouching towards a police state,” said Rep.

Kentucky has missed key fiscal targets within the state budget to allow for another future cut to the state’s income tax rate in 2028, the second year in a row and the third time in four years that such targets have been missed. That’s according to a Friday letter by State Budget Director John Hicks to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue, obtained through a spokesperson for Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.

LOUISVILLE — Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin will spend 60 days in jail after he was arrested Thursday on an outstanding warrant for contempt of court. Bevin appeared in Jefferson County Family Court Friday afternoon. He had been arrested on Thursday while working as an extra on a Christmas movie filmed at a Bourbon County horse farm.

The U.S. has now entered the seventh month of its war with Iran, a conflict that has killed 18 Americans and more than 3,000 Iranians, while raising gas prices by more than $1 per gallon. Data for Progress polling has consistently found that voters think the U.S. is failing to accomplish its goals in Iran, and that their top priority regarding the conflict is ending it as soon as possible.

Longtime election analyst Charlie Cook has a piece up on his Substack looking at the fast-approaching midterms. It’s an interesting piece, an artifact of the moment, not simply because of what it predicts but because of the nature of the writing in which Cook seems to be grasping for metaphors about just how bad a situation Republicans face — a bit more stream of consciousness and performance art than one is used to in election analysis.

Aaron, Dr. Clardy, and Kim share which Andy B they believe about these rural hospital closures. Then the Colonels remember the Mad Farmer, Kentucky's beloved literary giant, Wendell Berry, who passed this week. And then, we're joined by Our People, Our Vote’s Kathleen Campisano to demystify deep canvassing. Oh, and then Aaron puts on his old man readers and shares a favorite Mad Farmer poem.

New data shows there have been nearly 5,000 ICE arrests in Kentucky since the beginning of the Trump administration, and a growing number are the direct result of 287(g) agreements between local law enforcement agencies and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

One of my most vivid memories of moving to Silicon Valley in 2007 is walking my dogs through town one Saturday morning and stopping to watch a young couple, early 30s maybe, take delivery of a brand new Lamborghini.

For more than a year, Four Rivers Indivisible has been after First District Congressman James Comer to hold a public town hall meeting. The Republican incumbent has finally agreed, but only if it suits him. “I’ll do a town hall,” a grinning Comer recently told a chuckling Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce Public Policy Luncheon crowd. “This is a town hall. It just depends on who’s in the town hall, you know. If it’s all the village idiots, I don’t have any desire to do a town hall.

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