Posted by: Tanya Turner on February 29, 2012
Posted by: Tanya Turner on February 28, 2012
Posted by: Amy Hogg on February 28, 2012
More than 60 citizen lobbyists came to Frankfort on Tuesday to talk to legislators about the promise of clean energy.
Posted by: Erik Hungerbuhler on February 28, 2012
Posted by: KFTC on February 28, 2012
Wilson Creek residents are looking to state officials to find new ways to protect their land, water, health and community after a Kentucky Court of Appeals panel struck down restrictions on any str
Posted by: Jessica Hays Lucas on February 28, 2012
The Governor's office released the list of people who've been appointed to the Blue Ribbon Commission to study tax reform.
Posted by: KFTC on February 27, 2012
Today is the last day the U.S. EPA is accepting comments on a proposed rule change that would weaken efforts to clean up the skies in national parks, including Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky.
The proposal would let coal-burning power plants in 28 states use a weaker air pollution emissions standard. In short, the EPA wants to allows power plants in those states to use the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) to improve natural visibility conditions in Class I areas rather than the source-specific Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART).
Posted by: Jessica Hays on February 26, 2012
Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11:30 a.m., a state Senate committee might vote on a bill that would make remove the obligation for phone carriers to provide service to people in Kentucky's rural communities. This would include 911 services.
Posted by: Tanya Turner on February 26, 2012
Last summer Pallavi Podapati, of Hazard, worked with the Perry and surrounding KFTC chapters on several adventures, from a listening project across several eastern Kentucky counties to capturing the March on Blair Mountain, WV in photographs. She is currently a pre-med student at the University of Pennsylvania and very active in local Philadelphia community campaigns to encourage banks and corporations to de-fund mountaintop removal in Appalachia and invest in mountain communities.
Posted by: Joe Gallenstein on February 26, 2012
The Northern Kentucky KFTC Chapter is proud that this Wednesday they will be the 'Charity of the Month' at Oakbrook Cafe in Burlington, Kentucky! In recognition of KFTC's work to help register and inform voters across northern Kentucky, the restaurant and bar has selected the chapter to receive 10 percent of all proceeds sold on Wednesday February 29th.
"I’m politically active," says Rev. Ron Barrow of Lincoln County. "I read newspapers and pay a lot of attention to what’s going on nationally and locally and it’s frustrating not to be able to participate by voting.