In his final address of 2012, President Barack Obama urged Congress to do its job. No one is holding their breath.

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It’s the final round-up of the year. We’ll be back to normal on Wednesday. What’s that? A racist twit in Casey County? Surely not! A Casey County man says the life-sized mannequin in his front yard of President Obama holding a slice of watermelon was meant as a joke and not a racist display. The [...]

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It’s Holiday Week so we’re on a limited post schedule. So here’s a pointless round-up. The growing role of class in academic success has taken experts by surprise since it follows decades of equal opportunity efforts and counters racial trends, where differences have narrowed. It adds to fears over recent evidence suggesting that low-income Americans [...]

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This week President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama extend a holiday greeting and thank our troops for their service:

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We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen because it’s so close we can taste it. [Support Our New Project!] What pension crisis? Steve Beshear has appointed his fourth Republican legislator to a fancy state job. This time it’s Danny Ford making $85,000 as surplus [...]

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We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen because it’s so close we can taste it. [Support Our New Project!] An election date has been set for voters to decide on Sunday alcohol sales in Ashland. The vote will take place in both the Moore [...]

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It’s been a couple months since Steve Beshear released a video. So here he is with Jane with a Christmas message:

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Oh, look, Jack Conway has a Political Action Committee called Jack PAC (mentioned a week or so ago): CLICK TO ENLARGE It is – shocker – using an email database obtained from his AG campaign and that of his failed U.S. Senate campaign.

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Now that the Bluegrass Mental Health scandal has broken, we can only hope Adam Edelen wakes up to the reality that he needs to investigate some of his old friends at Kentucky Educational Television. You’ll note the similarities. Primarily executives getting salary increases while the rank and file are starved. Remember KET’s line about budget [...]

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There’s a lot of drama surrounding Bluegrass Mental Health this week. Hoo boy. And if the agency goes down? It could push KERS much further into the ground, potentially forcing Kentucky Retirement Systems to take even more from CERS. For the past 20ish years, Bluegrass and other mental health agencies have relied much more on [...]

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