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As authorities cracked down on prescription opioids and then on heroin, the black market offered up fentanyl as a substitute. Fentanyl –...

Last year, several members of the U.S. House of Representatives proposed a bill that would reshape the way TANF (Temporary Assistance for...

While national attention focused on waves of opioid and heroin crises, methamphetamine and fentanyl use across the country – and in...

With the bipartisan rejection of an insurance tax hike, Louisville Metro Government must redirect $35 million to pension obligations for...

The Kentucky House Judiciary committee unanimously passed Senate Bill 57 sponsored by Senator James Higdon on Wednesday. What's in the...

Eight months ago, after meaningful drops in homicides and shootings in Louisville, we first examined the role that self-initiated...

House Bill 3 (“HB 3”) is a common-sense measure which seeks to target the administration of Kentucky’s welfare system to those services...

There is a great deal of discussion about legalizing marijuana in the state of Kentucky. Pegasus Institute has not taken a position on...

Pegasus Institute is proud to announce that Jonathan Shell, the outgoing Majority Leader of the Kentucky House of Representatives will...

Even after reducing its pension exclusion during the last legislative session, Kentucky still has one of the highest in the country. Retiree

In December of 2017, the Boyle and Mercer County Fiscal Courts, commissioned a report on what improvements they could make to their...

“There oughta be a law!” was a syndicated newspaper cartoon that ran from the 1940s through the 1980s. The basic premise involved the...

The Kentucky Department of Education released a statement this September regarding the most recent K-12 test scores and introducing some...

The Mercatus Center released its full report on the fiscal condition of the states. Using data from states’ 2016 Comprehensive Annual...

The Cato Institute recently published a study by Chris Edwards on tax reform and interstate migration. Interestingly, the two factors...

When bullets strike flesh, lives are forever changed. When the victim is killed, families are left behind to grieve, to deal with the...

The Cato Institute, a Washington DC based think-tank has released the fifth edition of their “Freedom in the 50 States” report. The data...

A new report from The Council of Economic Advisers makes the case that work requirements should be added to non-cash welfare programs....

Kentucky made some national news today in announcing that the Education Professional Standards Board voted to remove the unnecessary...

There has been a great deal of analysis in the national media in the last week about the most recent provisional overdose death count...