Liam Niemeyer
Liam covers government and policy in Kentucky and their impacts throughout the Commonwealth for the Kentucky Lantern. He most recently spent four years reporting award-winning stories for WKMS Public Radio in Murray.
Kentucky Lantern is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.
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The problem is becoming more common in tiny Kentucky communities -
Republican Kentucky Attorney General Russel Coleman says it is constitutional to use public, county funding to fund the placement of school resource officers at private schools, according to a legal opinion published earlier this month. -
A Lexington-based nuclear energy startup is proposing to build a massive nuclear power plant complex along the Ohio River in Lewis County, which, if fully realized, would be the largest nuclear power plant site in the country and the first nuclear power plant in Kentucky. -
Company plans to invest billions but will also receive a 40-year local tax break -
Gov. Andy Beshear is calling on lawmakers to spend the new funding in the state budget. A Republican leader has raised concerns about whether political games are being played with budget forecasts that show new revenue amid a very uncertain economic forecast. -
A group of economists in charge of forecasting how much revenue Kentucky will bring in the next two fiscal years predicted a more pessimistic financial outlook in the coming years, citing a number of uncertainties in the economy. -
Other counties and cities have issued moratoriums, or temporary bans, on data centers
