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PNS Daily News - May 21, 20130
Stories on today’s national rundown include: a deadly twister devastates an Oklahoma suburb; high stakes for children in an immigration reform bill; and a report finds New York is not is going to be able to fill the jobs of the future.
Public News Service - Kentucky
FRANKFORT, Ky. - The congressional paring knife is out as lawmakers consider slicing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP, commonly known as food stamps. Cutbacks would mean low-income families not only have less access to food, but programs that teach them how to stretch their food ...Read More
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - For the next two decades, more miners will be digging less coal in Kentucky, according to an in-depth report. Consulting firm Downstream Strategies analyzed federal and other figures and pinned the cause on thinner coal seams - and, to a lesser degree, on cheap natural gas. By 20...Read More
FRANKFORT, Ky. - With Gov. Martin O'Malley's signature, Maryland became the sixth state in six years to abolish the death penalty. Advocates say more lawmakers across the nation are starting to realize capital punishment isn't working. "They're seeing that innocent people get sentenced to death and...Read More
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Federal legislation (The Marketplace Fairness Act) to tax Internet sales has cleared the U.S. Senate, sending the issue to the House. The issue pits closing a loophole and generating more tax revenue against those opposed to any tax increase and the companies who sell their product...Read More
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Gov. Steve Beshear gave the green light Thursday to Medicaid expansion in Kentucky. The governor says enlarging the government health care program will provide coverage to an additional 308,000 Kentuckians, cutting the state's uninsured population in half. Cathy Allgood Mu...Read More
FRANKFORT, Ky. - May is Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, and the Food and Drug Administration has started it off with a major announcement. The agency will allow a form of women's emergency contraception known as "Plan B One-Step" to be sold over the counter, and to women as young as 15. The FDA sa...Read More
LEXINGTON, Ky. - A dentist will say that poor oral health can have a negative effect on a person's nutrition, appearance and speech. It's a painful problem a large chunk of Kentucky's adults are dealing with, according to a Kentucky Health Issues Poll. Half the adults in the state (1.7 million) do n...Read More
PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Kentucky's top Republican politician wants to force the Environmental Protection Agency to start acting on coal-mining permits or they would be approved automatically. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is trying to fast-track permits, claiming the federal agency's inaction is costing th...Read More