Alex Acquisto

Addiction Recovery Care has agreed to a settlement with the Department of Justice to the tune of nearly $28 million for alleged Medicaid fraud, according to a NY lawsuit filed Jan. 12. A Bahamian trust says ARC owes them $8M. @AcquistoA kentucky.com/news/state/art…

On Comment on Kentucky, Bill Bryant @kynewsmakers welcomes @AcquistoA of @ heraldleader, @MarioAndersonTV of @SpectrumNews1KY and @isaiah_km Martinez of @WHAS11. Watch tonight at 8 on KET.

New: Three West Virginia jails are being used to house the country’s immigrant detainees in a deal with ICE that has made the state’s corrections division more than $333,000 so far this year. Inmates are moved to accommodate ICE detainees. westvirginiawatch.com/2025/10/02/wes…

Herald-Leader chosen by ProPublica for Local Reporting Network partnership kentucky.com/news/state/ken…

Andy Wolfson, longtime Courier Journal legal affairs reporter, dies at 70 courier-journal.com/story/news/loc…

Kentucky’s highest court has reversed Lexington’s ban on no-knock warrants, ruling that a city ordinance banning their use directly conflicts with state law. The city has not officially commented on the ruling. @_AustinHorn kentucky.com/news/local/cri…

Possibly lost in the sauce of this morning's news: Despite a new wave of KY Dems running for Senate in '26, not all the horses may be out of the barn just yet. There's talk of a very prominent Kentucky horse trainer joining the field. kentucky.com/news/politics-…

So, Harper’s Ferry has been told to take down material depicting suffering of slaves following Trump order to remove signs or displays that “emphasize negative aspects of American history or historical figures.” wjla.com/news/local/har…

Addiction Recovery Care closes five more locations, including flagship in Louisa kentucky.com/news/state/ken…

Fight heats up over proposed KY power line. Residents, Berea College oppose plan Some opponents believe the line could impact drinking water and the college forest #storylink=cpy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">kentucky.com/news/local/cou…

Big Frankfort news. This upcoming session will be Senate Transportation Chair Jimmy Higdon's, R-Lebanon, last one. He's not running for reelection next year. Pretty big shoes to fill both in his district and in the very powerful committee role.

New: Here’s the bulk of my interview with Sen. Mitch McConnell. He has lots of thoughts about his legacy in KY, his future, Andy Beshear & one thing that “irritates the hell out of” him. Check it out! kentucky.com/news/politics-…

Rawlings, R-Burlington, is filing the bill with Rep. John Hodgson, R-Fisherville. They said they aren't aware of any geoengineering actually happening rn in Ky. Co-chair Rep. Jim Gooch said in jest, "I just personally don't know what could go wrong when man starts playing God."

Still, this conspiracy theory has been fanned by some in the GOP, incl. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who filed a bill very similar to the one that'll be filed here in Kentucky. kut.org/energy-environ…

Just now in the Natural Resources & Energy Cmte, two GOP lawmakers presented a bill to outlaw geoengineering in KY skies, incl. cloud seeding. Sen. Steve Rawlings blamed cloud seeding on the deadly July floods in Texas - a claim that has been widely debunked by experts.

This weekend on Comment on Kentucky, Bill Bryant @kynewsmakers talks with @AcquistoA of @heraldleader, @RylandKY of @NPR and @liamniemeyer of @KYLantern. Watch tonight at 8 or Sunday at 1 pm on KET.

Gov. Beshear today, after he was asked about the proposal for Kentucky to invest in ibogaine research to treat addiction: "we've got a (treatment) system that works, so lets make sure that we're not just looking at the next bright shiny object."

ICYMI yesterday, a Kentucky Republican wants the state to invest in researching the psychedelic drug ibogaine as a way to treat addiction. kentucky.com/news/politics-…

Yesterday @_AustinHorn & I wrote about Bryan Hubbard's unsuccessful attempt to get Ky to invest in ibogaine in 2023. Both Blackburn & Dr. Jean Loftus, who spoke in favor of ibogaine today, are Americans for Ibogaine volunteers, which Hubbard now heads.bit.ly/4mvtm7v

Jessica Blackburn testified earlier about taking ibogaine in her early 20s after trying many other unsuccessful attempts to treat her opioid addiction. She credits ibogaine with saving her life. I wrote about her story in 2023: kentucky.com/news/health-an…

Ky GOP Sen. Donald Douglas said he will file a bill in the '26 session to research ibogaine to treat addiction. He said he has talked w/lawmakers in roughly 15 states "who are looking at forming a legislative consortium to putting money in research."