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State high court tells lower court to dissolve its injunction blocking laws legislature passed to limit governor’s emergency powers
Gov. Andy Beshear and Attorney General Daniel Cameron at the latter’s December 2019 swearing-in —– Kentucky Health News Laws that the legislature passed last winter to put time limits on...
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Paul and Massie repeatedly use Twitter to cast doubt on public-health experts’ opinions on vaccination and masking, CJ reports
Massie and Paul (Huntington Herald-Dispatch photo) —– U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and Fourth District Rep. Thomas Massie have made repeated posts in Twitter “casting doubt on public health experts’ consensus that...
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Dear Covid: I’d like to say goodbye, but if even if you linger, ‘I’ve taken some positives’ from your intrusion, pastor writes
David Whitlock —– By David Whitlock Republished from The Lebanon Enterprise Dear Covid et al., I’ve hesitated about writing, but you might as well know how I feel about you...
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Medicare and Medicaid will require nursing homes to make staff get a shot or lose funding; Ky. has 6th lowest staff vaccination rate
Health-care worker getting vaccinated. Temple Health photo —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Biden administration announced Wednesday that all nursing homes who get Medicare and Medicaid payments must...
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Financial troubles may make Letcher County Health Department vacate the multi-million-dollar building it opened 12 years ago
Letcher County Health Department (Mountain Eagle photo) —– By Sam Adams The Mountain Eagle An unwillingness to raise tax rates, a declining tax base, reduction in federal and state funding, and...
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Former governor’s nonprofit gets another big federal grant for its residential housing program to treat substance-use disorder
Numbered counties in red: 2, Cumberland; 3, Clinton; 10, Robertson; 13, Menifee. —- A not-for-profit organization headed by former Gov. Ernie Fletcher, who was a doctor before he got into...
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Sen. Rand Paul is kicked off YouTube for a week for making a false claim that cloth masks are ineffective in fighting Covid-19
U. S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. (Photo from Politico) —– YouTube has suspended U.S. Sen. Rand Paul for a week because of a video in which he falsely claimed that masks are ineffective in fighting...
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Beshear says Republicans at Fancy Farm should have taken ‘one minute’ from attacking him to promote coronavirus vaccinations
Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles was the most outspoken. (Photo by Ryland Barton, WFPL) —– Republicans at Saturday’s Fancy Farm Picnic took several familiar shots at absent Gov. Andy Beshear’s handling of...
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Six substance-use treatment centers get $1 million each from feds
Six Kentucky programs to treat substance-use disorder will each get $1 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program, established by Congress...
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National Health Center Week salutes federally qualified health centers, primary-care providers for one in eight Kentuckians
Map (click on it to enlarge) shows Kentucky Primary Care Association members, their health centers and counties where they have school-based clinics. Shading of counties shows congressional districts. —– Aug....