What the hell is going on in Scott County These days? A chocolate lab named Darcy ended up at the Scott County Animal Shelter after her owner says she escaped from the yard. [WKYT] With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration [...]

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What does Alison Grimes do when she wins an award recognizing her advocacy with individuals with disabilities? Hypes it all all week long. With a press release one day: Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes received the Kentucky Rehabilitation Association’s Gerald N. Williams Accessibility award in recognition of her efforts to ensure accessible opportunities for [...]

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Ouch! Republicans are hitting Alison Grimes pretty hard today: CLICK TO SEE FOR YOURSELF The ad goes on: When Alison Lundergan Grimes attacks Kentucky’s Senator Mitch McConnell for “obstruction,” she’s signaling to Washington liberals that she would rubber-stamp the Obama-Pelosi agenda that McConnell is defending Kentuckians from. “Alison Grimes says she’s thinking about running because [...]

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In the past five years, Kentucky lawmakers have cut the state budget by $1.6 billion. But if something doesn’t change, they may have just begun to cut services. [Ronnie Ellis] Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is taking a page from President Obama’s reelection playbook for his own campaign — embracing Internet memes, data mining and cinematic [...]

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Last spring, Conor Murphy was a hired hand who spent his days galloping racehorses, combing knotted manes and shoveling manure in a stable in Berkshire, England. [H-L] The job market may not be as weak as it looked just a month ago — but it is still nowhere near as strong as it could be. [...]

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A judge has been appointed to Kentucky’s longest-running death row case after an Associated Press inquiry into why it had been pending for 16 months without a judge. [H-L] Hillary Clinton clears the field as the Democratic candidate of choice in a new 2016 presidential poll. [Politico] Attorney General Jack Conway said he’s had a [...]

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Joseph Adam Minor has been on the stand in a federal courtroom in Bowling Green for about five hours over the course of two days, and only two out of four attorneys have questioned him so far. [Glasgow Daily Times] The old county courthouse lawyer came out in Hal Rogers last week as the Kentucky [...]

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The former poster child of the “ex-gay movement” renounced his controversial past beliefs in an email interview with PQ Monthly last week. [HuffPo] The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the state can be sued over changes made to Kentucky’s retirement system in 2008. [H-L] Kentucky is seeing rising unemployment at the county level with [...]

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On April 10, Alison Grimes sent out a press release about her delivering a $1,000 check to a Muhlenberg County girl for winning a slogan contest. Of course, it turned into a convenient photo op: Today, she sent one from Harlan County, where she dropped off an honorable mention check: Perfect photo op. She’ll have [...]

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Wanna know what won’t result in Mitch McConnell leaving the U.S. Senate no matter how much we’d like it to? Environmental lawyer Tom FitzGerald is considering a campaign to oust U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell in the 2014 election. [Joe Gerth] An appeals court handed the Environmental Protection Agency a big win Tuesday, overturning a lower [...]

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