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A new wave of progressive candidates can help restore a healthy democracy, KFTC members believe as they announce November election endorsements
October 2, 2018
KFTC's New Power PAC endorsed 70 candidates for the November 2018 general election, from Paducah to Pike County. KFTC members are working vigorously on their behalf.
Benham is first Kentucky city to pass black lung fund resolution
Action supports miners, their families and communities
September 15, 2018
The federal Black Lung Disability Trust Fund is in danger of financial insolvency. Benham city leaders take action to help prevent that from happening.
Report calls for improvements to coal mine bonding in Central Appalachian states
April 17, 2018
Coal mine bonding programs in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee require improvements that state and federal agencies should make to better protect communities, the environment and the region's economic future, a report by the Alliance for Appalachia finds.
KFTC issues in the News
Lawmakers or lawbreakers? General Assembly trampled open government rules. And that was just the first week.
January 14, 2019
Amidst the usual controversies that attend the opening days of a legislative session, the first week of the 2019 Kentucky General Assembly raised a singular question unrelated to the weighty business at hand: When did the legislature abandon any pretense of compliance with the open meetings laws and when did Kentuckians abandon any expectation of compliance?
Is Capitol the ‘people’s house’ or King Matt’s castle? Here’s why they want you out.
January 9, 2019
When the General Assembly began its 2019 session Tuesday, citizens in attendance were greeted with a “statement of emergency” — Gov. Matt Bevin’s latest attempt to silence critics and restrict public participation in the people’s business.
The Farm Bureau: Big Oil’s Unnoticed Ally Fighting Climate Science and Policy
December 21, 2018
For more than three decades, the Farm Bureau has aligned agriculture closely with the fossil fuel agenda.
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