On the economic ladder, rungs are moving further apart. That’s the America you live in today. [NPR]
Okay, who in their right mind believes that History Channel miniseries “Hatfields and McCoys” is going to boost Kentucky tourism revenue? [FOX41]
Negotiations between Medicaid managed-care company Coventry and Appalachian Regional Healthcare appear at an impasse as the two sides head to U.S. District Court on Thursday. [H-L]
A former justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is attacking Citizens United for being awful. [HuffPo]
Privately, Mitch McConnell told everyone it was the damn teabaggers and corrupt money that helped Thomas Massie win. Publicly? He’s now saying it was just classic politics and cash. [CN|2]
WATB alert. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell visited Barren and Allen counties Tuesday to talk about what he sees as potential problems with the Affordable Care Act and the importance of investing in infrastructure. [BGDN]
Oh, please, you know they didn’t think this thing through. Any scholarship program that’s haphazardly thrown together in a couple months is obviously not well thought out. [C-J/AKN]
Officials have renewed an order closing all caves and abandoned mines on federal forest land in the southeastern United States, including Kentucky, in an effort to limit the spread of a disease deadly to bats. [H-L]
You know things are bad when your Eastern Kentucky town runs out of water because there are too many people in town for the holiday weekend and because the fire department had to fight a fire. [WKYT]
An outside organization is how pressing Democrats in Kentucky to drop their membership with the American Legislative Exchange Council. [WFPL]
Haha, Mittens Romney’s campaign created some phone application that allows you to take photographs of whatever you want and slap a campaign logo over it. You know that’s going to lead to some serious hilarity. [Wonkette]
A new report targets America’s troubling childhood poverty problem. But legislators in Kentucky turn a blind eye to things like this. [HuffPo]
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1 Novena // May 31, 2012 at 8:12 am
“Well, We Beat Romania!”
Yes, the “exceptional” U.S. bested Romania, thus making us #2 in child poverty across the world. Some say that how a nation treats its children is a sign of its moral standing. Especially for a rich country, our is truly pathetic. No universal health care (unlike most all advanced societies), paltry minimum wage standards, and pitiful child care in general. What has America become when it has to compare itself to Romania?
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