Here’s Governor Steve Beshear’s weekly address, published on Friday. He discusses the Kentucky Derby. Take a look:

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Secretary of State Trey Grayson has launched a new service allowing constituents to stay up-to-date with what’s going on in state government. You can now sign up to receive email notifications or subscribe to RSS feeds so you’ll know when an official action of the Governor has been taken via Beshear’s executive journal. The service [...]

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Is it D-Day at the Herald-Leader? Layoffs of 53 people at the newspaper are rocking Kentucky. Who in the news room will get the cut? [Herald-Leader] Wonder where the Herald-Leader got the idea for this Ring Road story? We typically talk about where we get our ideas. [Bluegrass Politics] Former sex scandal radio host John [...]

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Don’t forget to watch Comment on Kentucky tonight at 8:00 P.M. Eastern on KET. Scheduled guests for tonight: Roger Alford, Associated Press Ryan Alessi, Herald-Leader Ronnie Ellis, CNHI Newspapers Maybe Alessi, as higher ed reporter for the H-L, will discuss the University of Louisville’s latest problems. Expelling a nursing student for what she wrote on [...]

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Planting pansies at the sites of homophobic abuse is a good idea. [The Pansy Project] Reminder for the weekend: Sustain his hosting its grand re-opening this Saturday. All day. Tons of free seminars and educational sessions. A happy hour with tasty treats and booze. Free screening of Gill Holland’s excellent film Flow. Activities for kids. [...]

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Kentucky’s Second U.S. Congressional District is abuzz with robo-calls targeting newly-elected Brett Guthrie. Here’s a rough transcript: “In the middle of the AIG scandal, our Congressman Brett Guthrie voted to make Virginia Republican Eric Cantor the conservative leader in Congress. “Since Congressman Guthrie’s vote for Mr. Cantor, $260 million in bank bailout money has gone [...]

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We’ve slowly been becoming fans of Kentucky-based YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip and just came across this video they created for an environmental “Convenient Truths” contest. Bear Necessities:

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Yesterday the news broke of major indictments in Clay County over an alleged massive vote-buying scheme. Russell Cletus Maricle, Douglas C. Adams, Charles Wayne Jones, William E. Stivers (aka Al Man), Freddy W. Thompson, Paul E. Bishop, William B. Morris (aka Bart) and Debra L. Morris (aka Debbie) were all indicted in various counts of [...]

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State Auditor Crit Luallen just released an audit of the Scott County Sheriff Bobby Hammons that is pretty interesting. While the audit found that the sheriff’s financial statement fairly presents revenues, expenditures, fees and taxes, we’re focused on a $10,273 deficit for the 2007 tax collection period. There were several days in November 2007 where [...]

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President Barack Obama’s decision on mountaintop removal is expected to come ‘very soon.’ Only then will we know what the Obama Administration plans to do about the practice. News came yesterday in congressional testimony from Nancy Sutley, chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. During a subcommittee hearing, Ben Chandler grilled Sutley. [WV [...]

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