Casey Parker-Bell.

#### Kentucky tax receipts topped one-point-two billion dollars in January - the fifth consecutive month the numbers exceeded a billion dollars.

Tax receipts were up more than 12 percent from January of 2021.

#### Governor Beshear says COVID numbers are improving.

He says in two or three weeks, public schools could be in a position to stop requiring masks.

He says right now, the positivity and case numbers are still too high.

### The state House voted 57 to 37 for a measure reforming Kentucky's unemployment insurance system.

House Bill 4 limits the number of weeks people are eligible for benefits and expands job search requirements.

#### The Courier Journal reports State Representative Susan Westrom, a Democrat from Lexington, is ending her bid for reelection.

There are two other Democrats running in the May