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With little notice, Kentucky’s GOP is pushing sweeping changes to the state’s budget trigger system for annual tax cuts, as well as business tax incentives. -
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FRANKFORT — Medicaid — the federal-state program that provides health care to almost 1.5 million Kentuckians — is on the chopping block in Washington and could soon come under examination in Frankfort. -
A bill that would give Kentucky’s public universities an additional path to firing tenured professors has cleared a Senate committee, moving one step closer to final passage. -
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A new president will lead Murray State University into its next academic year.
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