It’s Memorial Day. So in addition to remembering lost military and veteran loved ones and saluting those still around today, let’s take a bit to learn more about this great day. Ten facts about Memorial Day from CNN/mental_floss [CNN] The Department of Veterans Affairs Memorial Day site [VA Memorial Day] U.S. Memorial Day History & [...]

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It’s your weekly reminder to watch Comment on Kentucky tonight at 8:00 P.M. Eastern on KET. Scheduled guests: Tom Eblen, Herald-Leader Tony McVeigh, Kentucky Public Radio Joe Gerth, Courier-Journal These three guys can be a hoot so tune in. Hopefully it’ll be entertaining?

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What? Everyone’s turning a three-day weekend into four? Imagine that. Governor Beshear designated Joe Childers, a Lexington attorney, chair of the Mine Safety Review Commission. Childers is a favorite of groups like Kentuckians For The Commonwealth. Score one for Steve Beshear? Disappointing that they hid it at the end of a press release at 3:41 [...]

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This week Governor Steve Beshear discusses the National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries organization. Believe it when we see it? Yup. We’ll hold our tongue because we want to see this succeed.

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Take a look at this photograph published in the Courier-Journal on March 11th. Or, better yet, view a close-up of the sign courtesy of David Harpe here: CLICK FOR ORIGINAL Here, yesterday, is how the arena signage appeared: CLICK FOR ORIGINAL Pretty interesting, isn’t it? Fancy “Workplace Safety” signage placed predominantly in front of everything. [...]

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It’s really heating up again. Everywhere you turn it’s gambling this, gambling that. Even the University of Louisville is pushing for expanded casino gambling. So we thought it’d be interesting to take a look at the media push for gambling in Kentucky. Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP) has pushed the most in support of the [...]

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HAHAHA! We love Larry Cleveland. Here’s why: Police discovered marijuana and rolling papers after they searched him, Cleveland said. Haney also told them he had a quantity of cocaine hidden between his buttocks. “This was literally crack cocaine,” Cleveland said. That has got to be, hands-down, one of the best quotes in a newspaper ever!

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Remember Jerry Lundergan? The guy the current Frankfort establishment hated (including us and wrongly so) when he was chairman of the Kentucky Democratic Party? You know, the folks who are now doing the very same thing for which they criticized Jerry? Lundergan directs his comments primarily at Hillary Clinton’s supporters, but it’s a message that [...]

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Well, Are Hal Rogers’ millions upon millions of dollars worth of earmarks for his friends truly doing what he claims? “You’re using federal money to create organizations that wouldn’t exist,” Allison told the Herald-Leader. “They’re hiring people — sometimes bringing in political supporters. Sometimes (those supporters) promote the lawmaker as much as the group because [...]

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Ready for some fancy new Frankfort rumors? Larry Clark was in another meeting yesterday when he again said that David Williams wasn’t running the show in Frankfort. He again said that he (Larry) is in charge. Clark also said that the special session will be called on June 15th (in addition to what Owens has [...]

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