Want to win tickets to see Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition? Enter to win. [Page One] How appropriate is it for an employee of the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s Department of Criminal Justice Training to close a press release with “God bless!” sent out via the official state system? Innocent mistake with no harm meant, obviously, but [...]

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This week, instead of addressing the major issue of COMPREHENSIVE TAX REFORM, Steve Beshear spent 2:22 talking about a text message ban: Because that is clearly the most pressing issue Kentucky faces.

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Heh: Gov. Steve Beshear The Democratic governor and coal enthusiast fired mining official Ron Mills in November without giving a reason. Mills, former head of the state’s mine permit division, had been trying to scuttle permits for mining jobs by Alliance Resource Partners, the Tulsa, Okla.-based company whose political connections run deep in Kentucky. Mills [...]

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Oh, wait. The Conway Camp sent this out on the email machine this morning: Why does Jack Conway hate America with his pagan holiday card?

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Gas Station Governor Steve Beshear’s 2009 Christmas card has been released: The interior of the card reads: “Suck It, Kentucky! No Tax Reform!” All kidding aside? It’s a nice, modest card. And this year there’s no uproar about wasted money because it’s paid for by the re-election campaign. See the less modest 2008 card after [...]

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You know what blows my mind? That state employees would – from their state computer – go searching for “Leonard Lawson” and post comments like the one below all over the internet: Ky. friend/pontiki // Dec 18, 2009 at 9:20 am Leonard is a good man, and cares about the people and his family, I [...]

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To update a story from the other day about people running for office in 2011… Governor Mike Duncan? Only if Richie can be talked out of it. Auditor Damon Thayer? Attorney General Rob Sanders? Bob Stivers (wow, unlikely)? Secretary of State Joe Graviss (Democrat) Richie Farmer Tim Couch (the footballer) Commissioner of Agriculture Keith Thomas [...]

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I love that Al Franken denied Joe Lieberman the opportunity to ramble on for an additional minute. And I love even more that Walnuts McCain went batshiz insane over it all: Guess I should have given you a pee alert. Woops. Joe is making it rain in the VIP lounge with his homie Aetna CEO [...]

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Ronnie Ellis on the absence of Jerry Abramson and Jim Newberry: Board members are shocked of course and have already taken corrective action and, you know, it won’t happen again. Uh huh. Right. Where have board members been and what were they thinking? Why don’t people on important boards with significant financial responsibility ask the [...]

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You know, sometimes you feel like giving a person the benefit of the doubt. Until they open their mouth and the stupid comes tumbling out. Like with Arthur Byrn, Kentucky League of Cities’ insurance services board chairman, the guy who makes money selling KLC’s products. He says there’s no conflict of interest there and he [...]

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