By Patricia Scheyer

NKyTribune reporter

Kentucky Senator Chris McDaniel was given the Kentucky League of Cities ‘Friend of the Cities’ award Saturday morning at the regular Kenton County Mayors meeting held at the Crescent Springs Fire Department.

The “Friend of the City” award goes to the legislators who most uphold the KLC standards of shaping the future of the Commonwealth. This is the sixth time that Senator McDaniel has won the award, having won it in 2014, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2023, and 2025.

Some of the issues he has succeeded in helping to advance are the reduction in the state income tax, taking it down incrementally, and in the 2025 session, House Bill 1 reduced the state income tax from 4 percent to 3.5 percent, effective January 1, 2026.

McDaniel worked on the criminalization

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