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John Yarmuth and Anne Northup have an opponent in the 3rd District congressional race. Libertarian Edward Martin qualified for […]

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Roll Call reports that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has heavily invested early in the campaign cycle to improve field operations that made Democrats successful in 2006. So far the DSCC has invested more than $5 million in 17 states, including Kentucky.
This is all possible because the DSCC has maintained an almost 2-to-1 cash […]

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Looking for a job? U.S. Customs and Border Protections is hiring in Kentucky! They’re in Hopkinsville, Louisville, Lexington and Owensboro through the end of the week accepting applications. Big money. [Business First]
Read the first paragraph of this story. A former Champaign school official is accused of hitting the mother of […]

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Rep. John Yarmuth’s re-election campaign just announced that he has raised almost $1.5 million dollars for re-election and has $1,001,636 on-hand.
Like he promised in 2006, Yarmuth hasn’t accepted money from corporate political action committees, unlike Anne Northup. And more than a quarter of Yarmuth’s contributions were from first-time donors.
Yarmuth’s Second Quarter FEC Reporting Totals

Second […]

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It’s a slow afternoon. There’s too much crap to make nine million separate little posts. Time for an update! Maybe some afternoon cat blogging later. Also, we’re chasing a major development in that fancy educational scandal story we’ve been on for a hundred years.  That’s why we’re slow today.  (Rick is just […]

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Richie Farmer spent about $26,000 on registrations and hotel rooms for his little SASDA conference we told you about weeks and weeks ago. Some employees actually had hotel rooms when they lived less than 30 miles away. Hebert didn’t mention that taxpayers had to pay for a police escort to and from Churchill […]

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Please accept our apologies for being slow today. Too much business to handle, not enough hours in the day. Also, who is buying a new laptop for us? And who is gifting us a new iPhone?
Lunsford’s second quarter numbers are out and the McConnell camp is huffy. [PolWatchers]
Bill Cox quit as […]

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Mitch McConnell raised $3 million in special interest funds during the second quarter and Bruce Lunsford can write a $300 million billion trillion check. [PolWatchers]
Poor Ed Whitfield’s wife got axed from the Equine Drug Research Council and was replaced with Dr. Jerry Yon of Lexington. [Business First]
Sonny Landham thinks he’s a climate scientist! […]

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Robert Felner round-up of the day:

UW-Oshkosh Provost Likely To Lead UW-Parkside Temporarily [WISN]
UW-Parkside interim leader announced [Kenosha News]
New UW-Parkside interim chancellor picked [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]
New interim UW-Parkside chancellor endorsed [The Capital Times]
Via Racine Post, Interim chanceller for Parkside; he’s now provost at UW-Oshkosh [The Wheeler Report (PDF Link)]
Jake’s not letting up [The ‘Ville Voice]

And the rest:
All […]

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Ellis Park in Henderson is closing for good. It’s all about the Benjamins. When owner Ron Geary couldn’t get an injunction against a horsey set that would have allowed him to use national account wagering outlets, he decided to call it quits. The summer meet was scheduled to begin on Friday. […]

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