Jack Conway says the Ohio County School Board violated open records laws with secret meetings. [Open Government]

The Courier-Journal editorial board stole Stan Lee’s ‘mosquitos in a nudist camp’ line! We hope Larry Wilder takes our advice and turns his “I was drunk in a trash can” situation into a money pit with tours on the talk show circuit and maybe a book. [C-J]

Speaking of the C-J… Well… just read this hilarious letter to the editor at the bottom of the page. [PEE ALERT]

Governor Steve Beshear finally admitted that he didn’t like buying gambling votes with school construction earmarks. [Bluegrass Politics]

Awww snap! Now Greg Stumbo says he urged Governor Steve Beshear to travel Kentucky pushing slot machines. The war of words has begun, ladies. The Governor is also wrong about campaigning for an issue – campaign works, it’s how people win. [Joe Gerth]

Miss Southern Fails: Louisville least week? Then check this shiz out. [Clicky Clicky]

The Cincinnati neighborhood of Central Parkway and Liberty Street the #1 most dangerous in America? [Ruh Ro]

Is Ellis Park dead? Again? [Joe Arnold]

Kentucky’s minimum wage of $6.55 per hour will increase to $7.25 per hour on July 1. This is 23 days ahead of the mandated federal minimum wage increase. Cue the “conservatives” complaining about poor people making more money. [Labor Dept Release]

First Lady Jane Beshear has released her list of top ten summer reads as part of her Reading Recommendations initiative: Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis; Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleischman; Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes, Mollie Katzen; The Coal Tattoo, Silas House; The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick; The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy, Jeanne Birdsall; Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl; The Eleventh Hour, Graeme Base; From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg; Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak. [Press Release]

Jewish Hospital President and CEO Bob Shircliff is leaving the company to become a consultant. [The 'Ville Voice]