Elizabeth Erwin Public Relations Manager eerwin1@murraystate.edu Paducah, Ky. — Gov. Matt Bevin and Attorney General Andy Beshear faced off during the first gubernatorial forum on Oct. 3, 2019. With over 500 people in attendance, the forum was the first of five debates between the two candidates. The forum was hosted by the Paducah Area Chamber Read More
Story by Ava Chuppe Contributing Writer am.chuppe@gmail.com Gov. Matt Bevin signed House Bill 1, the emergency pension-relief bill, into law on July 24 at the State Capital in Frankfort, Kentucky. The bill provides some relief to regional universities, including Murray State, by freezing employer contribution rates. In 2018-19, Murray State’s pension cost was 49% but Read More
Story by Ava Chuppe Contributing writer am.chuppe@gmail.com Gov. Matt Bevin has ordered flags across Kentucky to be at half-staff on July 19 to honor two Kentucky servicemen. The men were killed in battle during World War II and the Korean War, but their remains were only identified recently. Navy Seaman 1st Class Millard Burk Jr. Read More
Senate Bill 151, “the sewage bill,” was passed in late March of this year, sending Kentucky residents into an uproar. Why did we care so much about a sewage bill? Why should you care? It wasn’t a sewage bill. At the last minute, our senators added over 100 pages of pension reform to the bill Read More
Story by Ashley Traylor, Staff writer In light of budget cuts to higher education, students from nine universities took a stand against Gov. Matt Bevin and defended higher education at the Capitol Rotunda Feb. 13. Bevin decided on a 4.5 percent cut to higher education last fiscal year, in which the Kentucky attorney general, Andy Read More
Story by Bella Utley, Contributing writer Bryan Sunderland, legislative director for Gov. Matt Bevin, spoke during the Breakfast at Business meeting held by the Murray Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. “I like to step back and view this from a business perspective,” Sutherland said. “My last 10 years I worked with a Chamber of Commerce Read More
Story by Alicia Steele, Assistant News Editor Last Thursday Murray State received the $960,500 that was previously withheld from last year’s fiscal budget, President Bob Davies and Jackie Dudley, vice president of Finance and Administrative Services, confirmed to The Murray State News. Last week, Franklin Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Wingate signed an order agreed Read More
Staff Report Gov. Matt Bevin will not appeal the decision of the Kentucky Supreme Court ruling that said he could not reduce funding from an already established fiscal year budget. “This was a bad decision for Kentucky and the ramifications from the attorney general’s political lawsuit could be significant,” said Amanda Stamper, Press Secretary in Read More