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This is the second consecutive day Senate President Stivers has talked about reporters running stories about political redistricting "in order to sell more newspapers." Alas, in reality, nobody is racing to the news racks for redistricting stories. If only. ^JC

Menifee County and a slice of northwestern Fayette County are in the same Senate district. What’s the community of common interest there, the Cave Run Lake sailing club?

"This is just politics." Sen. Phillip Wheeler, R-Pikeville, defends the Ky Senate district maps drawn by the GOP majority, says this is same thing Democrats did when they held power. ^JC

$500,000 a year for continued security detail for Attorney General Daniel Cameron. Lawmakers say he got death threats. bit.ly/3I0DpwT ^JC

The Republican Party of Kentucky eliminated 1 of the 3 West Louisville representatives in the House. This is quite literally their racist, white supremacist, unashamed response to the last 2 years: Black Lives Do Not In Fact Matter. At all.

If reform of the Electoral Count Act can prevent partisan overturns of elections that have been held and certified in bipartisan fashion, following regular order, the Democrats should take it. Most of their wish list is unacceptable to Republicans. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

We came across our old explainer for how Kentucky's massive pension debt came to be. It's always worth remembering the mistakes we made that got us here. ^JC

Senate Judiciary Committee having a long, thoughtful discussion over SB 40, re: the rights of parents. The Senate goes into session later today. We suspect LRC and KET staff, watching the ice storm approach, are nervously thinking, "Wrap it up! Wrap it up!" ^JC

This week I filed 2 maternal healthcare bills. These bills would require insurers to cover FDA-approved postpartum depression treatments (HB412) & mental health appointments for mothers who suffer miscarriage (HB413).

Rep. Phillip Pratt: We have over 100,000 open jobs in KY. My own company is advertising open jobs. We're not getting any applications. "We need help, we need employees." Speaking on HB 4, to cut jobless benefits. ^JC

H-L editorial: Kentucky has two amendments on the Nov. 8 ballot, and they boil down to the Ky Leg making power grabs and worrying the Ky Constitution stands in their way. Vote "No" on both. bit.ly/3ShAPY5 ^JC

Kentucky voters - get this. The Kentucky General Assembly thinks it doesn’t have enough power. So, the two constitutional amendments on the ballot want you to give up your power and your freedoms and pass it off to them because they think they know better.

We are vigorously working to end the opioid crisis, & this $197 settlement with CVS & Walgreens is the latest example of our efforts. We hope that the over $842 million we have brought to KY this year will help us meaningfully address the opioid epidemic. kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity…

Motion: Lawyers for former Kentucky county clerk in same-sex marriage case should face sanction bit.ly/3G7yPxc

Beshear now calls for a 5% pay raise for every public school teacher. He says it's vital to addressing the shortage of nearly 11,000 teachers in the state. Says the state is now 44th in teacher pay.

It’s disingenuous for anyone of either party in Ky to take credit for the record surpluses. It’s the pandemic stimulus spending and inflation.

It's past time we take action on a few key items discussed last night: ✅Sports betting ✅Legalization of medical cannabis ✅5% pay raise for public school educators ✅Universal pre-k Let's show Kentuckians we are listening and provide them what they want.

HOW COOL was it to see Kentucky native Chris Stapleton perform the national anthem before Super Bowl LVII?

Another Super Bowl and another year Kentucky fails to take advantage of revenue coming from billions in gaming dollars. #fail