Posted: 8:29 PM Last week I posted a week long series of articles from the Heritage Foundation discussing President Obama’s health care plan. I received several comments regarding those articles. At least one viewer questioned whether WYMT was biased.
Posted: 10:07 AM Secretary of State Trey Grayson is my guest Monday October 26th on Issues & Answers: The Mountain Edition. Grayson is seeking the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. What would you like to ask the Trey Grayson? I’ll use some of you questions when I sit down with the Secretary of State to tape the show Tuesday morning.
Posted: 9:54 PM Texas Congressman Kevin Brady says the American public is buying the President’s “myths” when it comes to health care and economic recovery. Brady says,"Government interference drives costs up, not down." Watch the address here.
Updated: 9:50 PM President Barack Obama has his sights set on the health insurance industry as he makes another pitch for his overhaul. Watch his weekly address here.
Updated: 2:31 PM Here is the fifth and final part in a week long series from the Heritage Foundation focusing on President Obama’s health care plan. I’ve already received several comments regarding the series. I’ll post all of those opinions next week.
Updated: 2:06 PM Here is Governor Steve Beshear’s weekly address ‘About Kentucky’. The topic is the need for new bridges between Kentucky and Indiana.
Updated: 1:22 PM Here are some of the latest headlines from across the country:
Updated: 11:18 AM The head of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says the Climate Bill will result in job losses for people working in industries that rely on fossil fuels like coal.
Posted: 6:41 PM The House voted today to allow suspected terrorist at Guantanamo Bay to be transferred to U.S. soil to stand trial. Congressman Rogers isued some blistering comments on the House floor. You can watch his speech here.
Posted: 4:59 PM Here is part four in a week long series from the Heritage Foundation focusing on President Obama’s health care plan.
Updated: 4:18 PM Here are some of the latest headlines from across the country.
Updated: 6:14 PM Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell continues to hammer away at the Democrat’s health care plans. Watch his Senate floor speech here.
Updated: 6:09 PM Here is part three in a week long series from the Heritage Foundation focusing on President Obama’s health care plan.
Posted: 6:50 PM Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the health care plan approved today in committee is “not what the vast majority of Americans would consider reform.” Listen to his Senate floor speech here.
Updated: 5:40 PM Yesterday I posted a link to a week long series on Heritage discussing President Obama’s health care plan. Here is part two. I would like to hear your thoughts.
Posted: 1:55 PM Republican Senator Olympia Snowe says she will vote for a Democratic health care bill. Snowe is breaking with her party on President Barack Obama’s top legislative priority. .
Updated: 11:19 AM State Attorney General Jack Conway is my guest Monday, October 19th on Issues & Answers: The Mountain Edition. The Louisville attorney is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. What would you like to ask the Jack Conway? I’ll use some of you questions when I sit down with the Attorney General to tape the show later this week.
Posted: 5:56 PM A new report suggests the Senate’s health care legislation will cost American families thousands of dollars more each year. The study commissioned by America’s Health Insurance Plans projects the average family of four will pay $1,700 a year more beginning in 2013. Premiums for a single person will go up $600.
Updated: 6:47 PM A Senate Republican says taking $500 billion from the Medicare program to help cover the cost of health care reform is unfair to senior citizens. Watch the GOP week address here.
Posted: 6:10 PM President Obama says he’s seeing an “unprecedented consensus” building to overhaul the nation’s health care system. Watch his weekly address her.
Posted: 4:58 PM Here is Governor Steve Beshear’s weekly address ‘About Kentucky’. The topic is the H1N1 flu.
Posted: 10:07 PM The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a 10-year, $829 billion dollar health care plan. Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell pedicts it will "never see the light of day."
Posted: 7:40 PM President Barack Obama says he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize as a "call to action" to work with other nations to solve the world's most pressing problems. Meanwhile others are asking, "He won, for what?"
Posted: 1:45 PM Christmas is still more than two months away but the debate over the “true” meaning of the holiday is already heating up. Check out this latest Stoplight video from Focus on the Family’s Stuart Shepard.
Updated: 11:55 AM Harlan is the only county in the state without a major four-lane highway. Leaders in my hometown want the project to start with widening the road from Harlan to Pineville. A move most will agree is vital to the county’s economic future.
Posted: 9:35 AM - Former investigators of the TWA Flight 800 crash off Long Island are calling on the National Transportation Safety Board to re-examine the case.
Posted: 8:11 AM - President Barack Obama says lives have been saved by sweeping surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency.
Posted: 8:03 AM - President Barack Obama is refusing to describe the type of military support the U.S. will give to Syrian rebels even as he praises a decision by world leaders at a just-completed summit to seek a negotiated peace.
Updated: 7:28 AM - An East Texas man has pleaded guilty to smuggling snakes on several planes from South America to the United States.
Posted: 7:15 AM - The Kentucky woman convicted of trying to extort millions in cash, cars and a house from University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino has a new federal home.
36 mins ago - Another suspect is behind bars in connection with a suspected crime ring in Lexington.
Posted: 7:02 AM - A Lexington, Ky., doctor has been sworn in as the 168th president of the American Medical Association.
Updated: 8:16 AM - A restored OH-23 Raven helicopter used as a utility, observation and medical evacuation aircraft during the Korean War is being dedicated at Fort Campbell where it will be permanently displayed on the Warrior Transition Battalion grounds.
Updated: 8:15 AM - The Kentucky National Guard is getting ready to celebrate more than two centuries of service to the commonwealth and the nation.
35 mins ago - For the second time in a week, advocates for Lexington’s homeless are cleaning up after a suspicious fire.
