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If child care were more available and affordable in the state, around 16,000-28,000 people could join or rejoin the workforce and that could add around $600 million, conservatively, to the economy, the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce estimates. The estimate comes from a report released Thursday, which analyzed the economic impact of more affordable child care […]
LOUISVILLE — Republican megadonors Joe and Kelly Craft again joined Central Bank in bidding $10 million on a country ham for charity. Kelly Craft, a former United Nations ambassador and 2023 Republican gubernatorial candidate, and her husband, coal executive Joe Craft, have had the winning bid at the annual Kentucky Farm Bureau Country Ham Breakfast […]
MASON COUNTY — Tim Grosser drove his truck across a pasture toward cattle he raises with his son Andy on the farm he’s owned for more than 30 years. “It’s peaceful,” Grosser said, mentioning the smell of fresh mown hay. “We just cut it and let it cure and rake it, roll it up, and […]
Central Appalachia — and Eastern Kentucky in particular — is running out of time to turn a century of decline into a future worth staying for. Population loss is now the coalfields’ defining trend, and in some counties it’s accelerating toward collapse. Data from the Kentucky State Data Center’s “Kentucky: By the Numbers” series shows […]
Kentucky advocates for people with Alzheimer’s are excited by new research showing that lifestyle interventions like exercising and learning can slow cognitive decline. Published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in July, The U.S. POINTER Randomized Clinical Trial showed that being social and keeping the brain active can improve brain health over […]
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MOREHEAD — In a warehouse in Rowan County sits an experiment that Tom Manning-Beavin and his nonprofit have been brainstorming for years — a wooden rectangular frame he calls one of their “boxes.” When the Frontier Housing CEO explains the concept, he hearkens back to when he played with Lego bricks growing up. Just like […]
In a matter of a few days, nearly $1,000 has been donated to the Shelby County Public Library to replace 16 LGBTQ+ books a local church had recommended to check out and never return. “The response to the missing books has been overwhelming and mostly positive for the library,” said Pamela W. Federspiel, the library’s […]
The Trump administration has refused to fund a study that was to have measured toxic air pollution in West Louisville. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency denied an appeal of the EPA’s cancellation of the grant that was paying for the study, a spokesperson for Louisville’s air pollution regulator said. The Lantern previously reported the Louisville […]
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