In light of the Blue Grass Airport indictments, Eric J. Frankl has been appointed the Airport’s new executive director. [H-L]

A letter writer took issue with Ed Manassah’s backwater, codger-esque comments about bloggers. Kudos to you, Lucinda Marshall. [LEO Weekly]

Remember when Laura Bush headlined a fancy pants motivational seminar? Now Dubya is doing the same thing. It’s just $19 per office to attend. [Talking Points Memo]

Could Lexington learn from Louisville’s 21C? Lexington Vice Mayor Jim Gray was involved in the development. [Tom Eblen]

Rick Pitino could learn a bit about punishment. Allowing players to play after getting into scuffles that eventually involve police? Hardly something so small that those involved shouldn’t be suspended from games. The University of Louisville must have zero public filter for anything outside of Mark Hebert. [Francene!]

When will Jim Gray sack up and enter the Lexington Mayoral race against the corrupt Jim Newberry and Teresa Isaac? The latest news about the Blue Grass Airport indictments should be a wake-up call for him. [Barefoot & Progressive]

Alan Keyes is set to terrorize schoolchildren throughout Western Kentucky! Everybody get ready for the four-time losing presidential candidate and nightmare. [Kentucky New Era]

The Kentucky Division of Forestry will pay out $33,413.19 to 62 counties from the collection of wildfire suppression fees required by KRS 149.180. [Press Release]

Before you get lured into the hype: the drop in unemployment rates is not good news. It’s merely the result of people who have been unemployed so long that they have dropped off of official counts. [Joe Arnold]