Eastern Kentucky University will give buyout packages to 127 employees who applied for them and were accepted, officials announced Tuesday. [H-L] Republicans controlling the House pressed ahead Tuesday with slashing cuts to domestic programs far deeper than the cuts departments like Education, Interior and State are facing under an already painful round of automatic austerity. [...]

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Yep, let’s just make it an entire morning. Here’s Mitch McConnell on KET’s One to One: Immigration, deficits, gun control, yadda, yadda…

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Domestic violence takes place all over the Lexington area but Stan Lee continues to support it by voting against protections. [H-L] President Barack Obama met behind closed doors with energy executives Wednesday in a session the White House said was arranged to discuss the industry’s response to Hurricane Sandy last year and preparations for this [...]

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Both the General Fund and the Road Fund dropped during the month of April. General Fund fell 2% to $821.4 million (down $16.5 million). Road Fund rose 18.3% to $143.1 million. Highlights: Sales & Use taxes down 7.3%, down 1.5% for the year Corporate taxes down 89.7%, up 2.8% for the year Individual taxes Up [...]

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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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Mitch McConnell dropped into Pikeville and Hazard on behalf of his own re-election last week, but also to help realize his dream of becoming Senate majority leader by electing a Republican to replace retiring Democrat Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia. [H-L] Sens. Rand Paul and Marco Rubio are facing a big obstacle if they seek [...]

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Hal Rogers took time from a Food and Drug Administration budget hearing to preach about prescription drugs: It wasn’t just during his opening remarks, though. He went on and on and on: Pills are a big problem, sure. But if you were wondering why the economy is still tanking? It’s because folks in Washington waste [...]

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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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It’s probably not a good day for the Kentucky Department of Highways in Bowling Green, to say the least. [BGDN] Former President Bill Clinton, speaking at the George W. Bush Presidential Center dedication on Thursday, said that he had considered asking his successor to paint a picture of him, but joked that he backed off [...]

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Attorney General Jack Conway said Wednesday “there’s a good chance” that he will run for governor in 2015 and that he won’t “defer to anybody” when making his decision to run. Unfortunately for Jack, all the big money is leaving him in the dust and it’s backing Adam Edelen. [C-J/AKN] In a major step toward [...]

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