An interview with Senate Dem Leadership
Gerald Neal and Reggie Thomas dig into the session, including the DEI bill.
KYGA25
Content related to the 2025 session of the Kentucky General Assembly.
Beshear vetoes legislature’s last-minute aid to put police in private schools, draws GOP rebuke
— by McKenna Horsley, Kentucky Lantern — Months after Kentucky voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have allowed public funds to support nonpublic schools, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear applied the same logic in a line-item veto. Beshear’s veto spurred Senate Republicans to issue a news release Friday and again Monday
Government secrecy starts in Washington and ends up in Frankfort
And we know which party is determined hide what they’re doing.
GOP supermajority doesn’t care about public safety
They care more about your genitalia than they do about you being killed by a gun.
The revenge of the White people
Kentucky was the first southern state with a civil rights law. Now we’re on the MAGA white supremacist train.
GOP changes to Medicaid in doubt after Democrat Beshear says legislature failed to fund them
He outlined the problem in a letter before the session ended, but the GOP leadership took no action on it.
KY lawmakers will ban trans folks from the bathroom – but won’t stop real child predators
Once again, bills to deal with sexual abuse by teachers failed in the legislature.
Beshear sues to block new state law pushed by conservative Americans for Prosperity
Law would allegedly prevent implementation of other laws passed by the legislature.
Rep. Joshua Watkins on the session, explaining the vetoes, and KDP reorganization
His first session and how it went
Two Days til Sine Die! w/Tamarra Wieder, Planned Parenthood
Aaron and Kimberly talk with friend of the show Tamarra Wieder of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates. The Colonels also break down the growing pushback against the Trump/Musk march towards authoritarianism - and how Kentucky's federal delegation is failing in its response.
Rallying for the Democracy Principle: Why we showed up at the Capitol on KY legislature’s last day
“No laws about us without us.”
Beshear says he won’t implement new bills without clear appropriations from Ky legislature
The Kentucky General Assembly passed bills making major changes to Medicaid, pollution regulations and worker safety rules, but Beshear says he cannot implement them without specific appropriations.
Shut up: A message from the 2025 Kentucky General Assembly
And in case you didn’t get the message, they put it into law.
Kentucky GOP supermajority overrides nearly all Beshear vetoes in one day
Kentucky’s GOP-controlled legislature quickly voted to override nearly all of Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s vetoes on 29 bills and resolutions.
