Supporters of Hillary Clinton have already started pushing her to run in 2016. You know she’d lead to hugely Democratic numbers in Kentucky – especially in a primary. [WaPo]
Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms announced on Monday that Grade I winner Madcap Escapade died this past Saturday of colic and will be buried on the farm. Owned by Bruce Lunsford and Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms, the 11-year-old daughter of Hennessy has a yearling filly by Unbridled’s Song and weanling colt by Malibu Moon. [H-L]
A Kentucky Newspaper suffered one of the biggest losses in years yesterday. Both Eric Crawford and Rick Bozich resigned. And those were the two people/reasons folks paid money to read articles from the paper. Doesn’t help that circulation is rumored to be down 10,000 in just a week. [The 'Ville Voice]
What? More gunshots in a Lexington neighborhood? Surely not. Surely this isn’t yet another instance of trying to be just like Louisville. [WKYT]
Don’t worry, Kentucky likely won’t take steps to end overincarceration any time soon. Not while the for-profit private prison system continues to throw mad cash at electeds in the Commonwealth. [ACLU]
Thanks to some Republican buttcramps, a coal activist was questioned about – get this – child pornography. What a disgustingly low stunt to pull. [Gawker]
You can’t even hang out in a vacant house in Lexington these days without sustaining life-threatening injuries. [H-L]
Bullitt County’s first state nature preserve will be formally dedicated this week, a move state officials say will protect the sensitive area from development. [C-J/AKN]
Louisville has been growing warmer. In a list of the nation’s fifty largest cities monitored by professors at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Louisville’s core is warming at faster rates than the surrounding areas—and it’s doing so faster than any other large city in the country. [WFPL]
Everything about this story involving the EPA and drones is sure to send mouth-breathers into a rage. [Wonkette]
First Mittens Romney’s campaign couldn’t spell America. Now it can’t spell official. Which probably bodes pretty well for the camp in Real Amercia. [HuffPo]
President Barack Obama enlisted Bill Clinton to campaign alongside him in New York on Monday, tapping the popular ex-president’s star power to rake in cash for his re-election bid from Wall Street investors and show-business elite. [Reuters]






4 responses so far ↓
1 GIS // Jun 5, 2012 at 8:25 am
About 10 years ago, the US Geological Services estimated there was about 16 years of mineable coal left in Kentucky. Has everyone completely forgotten this? Why create such a huge war over coal, when it’s already on it’s way out?
2 Monica // Jun 5, 2012 at 8:51 am
@GIS:
For the same unknown reasons that we hang on to tobacco.
3 Jocko Flocko // Jun 5, 2012 at 10:37 am
Imagine American Idol where the singers could only perform two songs…Muskrat Love or Achy,Breaky Heart. That’s the American 2012 Presidential election.
4 GIS // Jun 5, 2012 at 10:56 am
@ Monica:
That’s not the point. Coal will be gone literally, in 5-10 years, as in “no more coal to mine.” Tobacco seeds will always be sold and grown in KY, as long as there’s a market.
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