Bowling Green commission gives final passage to smoking ban
The Bowling Green City Commission gave second reading and final passage last night to a smoking ban that will apply to all indoor public places except “nursing homes, exclusive tobacco...
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The Bowling Green City Commission gave second reading and final passage last night to a smoking ban that will apply to all indoor public places except “nursing homes, exclusive tobacco...
With a statewide smoking ban proposed in the legislature, which reconvenes next week, and local ordinances still being proposed and passed, the Kentucky Center for Smoke-Free Policy has produced eight video...
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Fox News Sunday that the Senate would somehow vote on whether or not to repeal the health-reform law. McConnell’s Democratic counterpart, Majority Leader Harry...
Bowling Green Independent Schools are working with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and nearby farms and purveyors to offer locally grown food in their cafeterias, Jenna Mink of the Bowling...
State Senate President David Williams expressed firm support for the proposed statewide smoking ban at the Kentucky Press Association‘s forum for gubernatorial candidates in Louisville Friday. “Secondhand smoke is full of...
State inspectors found pitiable conditions when they visited Golden Years Rest Home, right, in Letcher County in December, the Lexington Herald-Leader‘s Beth Musgrave and Valarie Honeycutt-Spears report. Kool-Aid dripping on...
Gov. Steve Beshear presented a $800,000 community development block grant (federal money administered by the states) for the construction of a Maysville assisted-living facility and hospice inpatient facility Friday, The Ledger Independent...
In the face of strong opposition from Kentucky hospitals, a Democratic legislator has filed a bill that would require all health-care facilities to report the incidence of infections acquired by patients...
A distinguishing feature of the $800 million expansion to the University of Kentucky‘s Chandler Hospital will be a hybrid operating room. The 1,000-square-foot room, with a price tag of $3.2...
Gov. Steve Beshear, left, is urging the legislature to pass legislation that would rectify a $100 million shortfall in the 2011 Medicaid budget. If it doesn’t, Beshear said payments for...