Thursday, December 29, 2011

Stumbo Focuses On General Assembly

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Governor Beshear study on the feasibility of adding UPike to the state university status will be completed in six to eight weeks. House Speaker Greg Stumbo says he has already written a bill to make the University of Pikeville a state university and that it will be brought up when the general assembly convenes in January. Stumbo says he is behind the idea one hundred percent but knows some people are not in favor of the move. Stumbo says other things on the agenda include a proposed bill would ban the sale of  over the counter cold medicines containing the meth making ingredient pseudoephedrine, redistricting and expanding gaming.