Don’t forget Team Sammy when you’re considering the St. Baldrick’s Foundation! It’s a team personally dear to us and we’d love for you to support it. [Team Sammy]

A $5,000 state tax credit for new home buyers? $5,000 tax break for small businesses that invest in new technology? Let’s hope these get approved! Kentucky needs them. Badly. [Bluegrass Politics]

Hebert wonders if Ben Chandler would get some mega payback from Barack Obama if he chose to run for the U.S. Senate. [Mark Hebert]

Open records and transparency? What? We don’t need any of that mess here in Kentucky. Heh. Despite all the pomp and circumstance from the Governor and a couple others about the state’s “Open Door” website that allegedly makes public records available, it’s still laughable. And Kentucky still ranks 26th on availability. We’ve got a long way to go. [C-J]

We thought we were broke? We’ll have more on the secretive spending of the State House & Senate over the next few days, but for now check this mess. [Ronnie Ellis]

All the Jim Bunning shenanigans drew a sold-out dinner crowd at Saturday night’s Fourth District Lincoln/Reagan Dinner. [Pat Crowley]

Not content with just dealing with latent homosexuality and instead spreading homophobia, David Edmunds and Martin Cothran pushed to kill a bill preventing fathers of children in situations of affairs (aka the bill that allows people to whore around with no consequences) any rights to be a parent. Unfortunately for those two bigots, it’s all being heard in the court and the legislature won’t be necessary. [C-J]

Did Brad Ginsberg use his personal political opinions to censor an NCAA chat room for WLKY? [The Flynn File]

Remember the “Bruce Lunsford Gas Tax” from last year’s U.S. Senate Race? Turns out it’s actually the Bruce-Lunsford-lowers-your-taxes-thingy. Or, it would have been. Now it’s the “David Williams Gas Tax.” [Joe Gerth]