So, ladies, you know what time it is. Time for us to demand freebies from someone, anyone! Who is gonna give us some free seats and drink tickets to the Louisville/Jefferson County Democratic Party’s annual Wendell H. Ford Appreciation Dinner on April 25th? We will not give you hookers or blow in exchange, but, we [...]

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Why were the Kent Downey court records sealed? Kentucky forgot about it all after The Kentucky Post ran an article from the AP on it on January 10, 2001. Arguments about opening the attorney general’s files on the scandal involving Kent Downey – files that would embarrass one of Downey’s presumably prominent friends if they [...]

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Governor Steve Beshear finally released details of an estimated $3 billion in stimulus money that will roll into the Commonwealth of Kentucky over the next 28 months. Beshear outlined some major areas of funding with Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson today: Medicaid: Kentucky’s Medicaid program will receive about $990 million over the next two years. The [...]

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It’s about time. The right to use homophobia and such as a wedge issue was left up to Kentucky Democrats for the past year. But Republicans have finally stepped up to the plate. This from Stephenie Steitzer: A bill filed by the Republican Senate majority leader would make it easy for the legislature to try [...]

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By now you’ve all read Rick’s tale of being arrested and spending seventeen hours in jail. While I believe, as I say below, Rick is responsible for his failure to be a responsible driver and that it’s stupid of him to have let something so simple turn into a nightmare scenario, the system is so [...]

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Dahaha. It never ends. Poor old Frank Simon has sent out another email blast. This week he’s yammering on about five bills in the legislature that comprise the “General Assembly’s Covenant with Kentucky Families.” Haha. Really. Let’s take a look at the fear he’s spreading: SB 79 – The Ultrasound Bill – Requires abortionist to [...]

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State Auditor Crit Luallen is at this very moment holding a press conference to discuss her office’s latest audit of the Blue Grass Airport. Over the past several weeks, Luallen’s office has reviewed more than $755,000 in expenses from the past three years (spanning the period January 2006 to December 2008) from now former airport [...]

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Really, could yesterday have gone on any longer? Can this Jim Bunning mess get any crazier? Oh oh– we got our annual Tom Riner fridge magnet and legislative survey in the mail a couple days ago. As always, it’s a photo of Riner and his 95 children and this time it’s a calendar. The fanciest [...]

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Speaking of Greg Stumbo, John Cheves blows another one out of the water by pointing out the ethical issues surrounding Stumbo, his pal Keith Hall, Rocky Adkins and Jim Gooch re: HB 119–  which we mentioned yesterday. Rep. Keith Hall, D-Phelps, is pushing a bill in Frankfort to cut safety standards for the kind of [...]

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President Barack Obama will address the nation tonight at 9:00 P.M. eastern. The White House has provided us with this excerpt from his planned remarks: But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will [...]

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