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WILLIAMSBURG — Whitley County Fiscal Court met in regular session Tuesday afternoon, with road issues highlighting the agenda.

Facebook County Treasurer Joan Isaacs, standing at right, backs up Judge-Executive Steve Kelleys recommendation to temporarily have two Assistant Supervisors sharing duties while Pulaski County Fiscal Court searches for a new County Road Supervisor. Following a vote two weeks ago to move County Road Supervisor Eugene Harness back into an operators positions, Pulaski County Fiscal Court took action Tuesday to keep the department running smoothly while the search for a new supervisor gets underwa...

Though college students are known to have an affinity for shots, leaders at area colleges and universities arent mandating they receive a COVID-19 vaccination this fall.  Members of Gov. Tom Wolfs administration announced earlier this month that the state will not require COVID-19 vaccinations for college and university students but are highly encouraging the vaccine, and local schools, both public and private, are following suit and only recommending the shot.  For state schools, like S...

Function would be gone in his revenue neutral flex funds. and the idea that you would take that safety net function out of the picture is a huge step backwards. >> lets talk more generally about the federal governments affect on poverty in this country. the social security act of 1935 was, in fact, an anti-poverty program. at that time, the elderly were the most impoverished in our society. and that problem was pretty effectively dealt with through social security. and then the combination of th...

>> what i am proposing today is the most fundamental change to how the federal government fights poverty and encourages upward mobility since president johnson first conceived the war on poverty 50 years ago today. i am proposing that we turn over washingtons anti-poverty programs and the trillions that are spent on them to the states. our anti-poverty program should be replaced with a revenue neutral flex fund. we will streamline most of our existing federal anti-poverty fund into a single agen...

Folks at the bottom end of the income scale have getting higher up on that scale. and often times, republicans wont even engage on those issues. i think theyve kind of been pushed in that direction. so i was glad to hear him talk about that in his diagnosis. his prescriptions i felt were way off point and antithetical, really, to the goals hes articulating. by the way, this revenue neutral flex fund stuff, thats a block grant. that means that instead of the federal government being able to ramp ...

Johnson first conceived the war on poverty 50 years ago today. i am proposing that we turn over washingtons anti-poverty programs and the trillions that are spent on them to the states. our anti-poverty program should be replaced with a revenue neutral flex fund. we will streamline most of our existing federal anti-poverty fund into a single agency. then each year these flex funds would be transferred to the states so they can design and fund creative initiatives that address the factors behind ...