Workers at a public library system based in Columbia are voting this week on whether to become the only active public librarians union in the state.
If employees at the Daniel Boone Regional Library, which has branches in Columbia, Fulton, Ashland and Holts Summit, ratify the union, they would join a growing movement toward unionization across the country, sparked in part by the coronavirus pandemic.
ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) — Attorneys for a former Kentucky clerk who wouldn't issue marriage licenses to two same-sex couples have appealed a federal court ruling that she violated the couples' constitutional rights and might have to pay damages.
A federal judge has ruled that a former Kentucky clerk violated the constitutional rights of two same-sex couples who were among those to whom she wouldn't issue marriage licenses — a refusal that sparked international attention and briefly landed her in jail in 2015.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate signaled Wednesday that it's time for an aluminum company to follow through on its long-stalled promise to build a massive plant backed by a state investment.