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Jonathan Shell joins Pegasus Institute as Director of State Initiatives

November 28, 2023

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Staff

Pegasus Institute is proud to announce that Jonathan Shell, the outgoing Majority Leader of the Kentucky House of Representatives will join us as the Director of State Initiatives. In his new capacity, Jonathan will work to expand our footprint statewide allowing us to...

Kentucky has one of America's highest pension income tax exemptions. And it doesn't even work.

November 27, 2023

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Jordan Harris

Even after reducing its pension exclusion during the last legislative session, Kentucky still has one of the highest in the country. Retirees are leaving the state anyway.

Some Counties Release less than 10% of Defendants Pretrial, New Study Shows.

November 26, 2023

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Josh Crawford

In December of 2017, the Boyle and Mercer County Fiscal Courts, commissioned a report on what improvements they could make to their criminal justice system. Boyle and Mercer county share a jail, the Boyle County Detention Center, and at the time of the commissioned rep...

4-3 Ruling on Right to Work a Victory, but . . .

November 16, 2023

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Josh Crawford

“There oughta be a law!” was a syndicated newspaper cartoon that ran from the 1940s through the 1980s. The basic premise involved the characters encountering some perceived misfortune or injustice with the remedy and punchline often being; “there ought to be a law!”

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