FRANKFORT, Ky. - Smokers purchased 120 million fewer packs of cigarettes in Kentucky over the past two years after the state doubled its cigarette tax to 60 cents a pack, a state economist said Friday. Greg Harkenrider, deputy executive director of the Governor's Office for Economic Analysis, said that raising the tax in 2009 appears to have done what proponents had hoped: caused people to smoke less. "The data's hard to refute on that point," he said.
The program is designed to provide students who are interested in public service with the opportunity to gain experience and exposure by working in key areas of government. Gubernatorial Fellows are assigned to the Executive Office of the Governor or the Governor's agencies, based on their major or area of concentration. Fellows will be expected to work a minimum of 20 hours per week and will be paid for their time on the job. Fellows must also meet weekly as a group to participate in a lecture series as well a$ additional government activities such as press conference, budget briefing and policy briefings.
A proposed expansion of the state Water Development Authority is highlighting a strained relationship between a Kanawha County lawmaker and Gov. Joe Manchin's administration. Delegate Nancy Peoples Guthrie, D-Kanawha, is questioning plans to expand the authority's staff, accusing the agency's executive director of trying to create a "fiefdom" and trying to take the governor's office to task for a lack of transparency.
It's no surprise that Sean Murray-Nolan's job title - "executive director of the office of the governor of New Jersey" - seemed rather exalted for a 27-year-old. He made it up.
Certainly, not many newly appointed government officials would have the gravitas to ask the U.S. Department of Justice for an audit of their own agency. Alan C. Woods III, executive director of the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, did just that in July 2003.
Gov. John Hickenlooper's office released a new economic forecast on Friday March 18 that could mean a tiny bit of relief for budget cuts threatening schools. A faster-than-expected rebound of income tax is expected to bring an additional $161.3 million into state coffers this fiscal year," said Henry Sobanet, executive director of the Governor's Office of State Planning and Budgeting.
In his first public appearance since the Nov. 2 election, Senate president and acting governor-to-be Earl Ray Tomblin, D-Logan, said Monday he will focus on executive branch duties when he takes office. I will spend my time as governor running the executive branch of government," Tomblin said during a news conference before an overflow crowd in the governor's reception room. "I do not plan on presiding over or voting in the Senate.
Wednesday's announcement that Procter & Gamble picked Box Elder County for a new paper products manufacturing plant was greeted with praise and pride by Utahns who worked to make it happen. This is a huge win for the state of Utah, and the positive impacts of it are going to be felt for generations to come," said Jason Perry, executive director of the Governor's Office of Economic Development. "This is the kind of company that really builds communities, it trains our work force and, through our experience and what we know of them, creates management personnel to go throughout the entire world. Procter & Gamble is known as one of those great companies that really produces some great CEOs.
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