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Over 1,000 people turn out for I Love Mountains Day!
KFTC members and friends celebrated their hope for Appalachia’s Bright Future at the annual I Love Mountains Day march and rally in Frankfort today.
“I believe in Harlan County’s Bright Future, in Kentucky’s Bright Future, in Appalachia’s Bright Future,” KFTC member Carl Shoupe of Benham told the crowd on the capitol steps. “But we must do more than want it. We have to dream it. We have to build it and protect it, together. We have to demand it and work for it every day. We have to organize for it and we have to vote for it.”
Live streaming I Love Mountains Day
If you can't make it out to Frankfort tomorrow for I Love Mountains Day, you can still participate from the comfort of your own computer. We will be providing a live video feed from our Ustream account starting at around 12 p.m. EST. You'll be able to watch the feed on this page once we get started.
HB 70 Passes Committee!
This morning, House Bill 70, our bill to restore voting rights to former felons who have served their debt to society, passed out of the House Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee with 6 yes votes, 1 no and 2 abstentions.
Rep Jesse Crenshaw, Terry Nayden (LWV), Raoul Cunninham (NAACP), and Fr. Pat Delahanty (Catholic Conference) gave testimony in support of the bill.
The League of Women Voters released a revision of their study of felony disenfranchisement in Kentucky today and presented it to the committee.
Live streaming today's selenium hearing
We will be providing some live video coverage from this afternoon's hearing to weaken our state's water quality standards on selenium on our Ustream channel. We will begin streaming near the start of the hearing at 1 p.m. EST.
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In his State of the Commonwealth address on February 6, Governor Steve Beshear spoke bluntly about the shape Kentucky is
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