The Office of the Attorney General will neither confirm nor deny that they’re looking at Thomas Massie’s alleged violations of the Kentucky Open Meetings Act. But you know they want nothing more than to strangle a Rand Paul disciple. Here’s the gist: Massie didn’t provide notice for at least eight meetings of the Lewis County [...]

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Which Reggie Meeks supporter drives a champagne-colored Z71 pick-up truck? The guy captured on our surveillance cameras looked an awful lot like Meeks himself. They’ve been driving up and down Brownsboro Road all morning illegally placing yard signs in rights-of-way. A few shots: We called Meeks’ office and Betty says he’s out of the office [...]

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So… it looks like the mouth-breathers are the folks who have babies at younger ages and give them crazy names. [NPR] Lexington is in full panic mode over a homeless shelter. It’s all the typical hoopla. [H-L] Karl Rove and the teabaggers may suddenly have to disclose their fancy donors. And you know Republicans don’t [...]

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What’s that sound? You mean the Kentucky Retirement Systems is still claiming that Chris Tobe isn’t an actual SEC whistleblower? Funny, Pensions & Investments sure seems to think he is: At the $13.3 billion Kentucky Retirement Systems, a trustee precipitated an investigation, detailed in an independent counsel report released March 12, into use of placement [...]

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Everybody is being so mean to poor Richie Farmer! Why can’t people just leave Mr. Forgettable alone so he can remain a basketball star in his own head? [Bluegrass Politics] Why did Thomas Massie allow this bank in Lewis County to be robbed? He hates America. [84WHAS] Please, hold your laughter. What? The Kentucky Transportation [...]

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Here’s a bunch of mouth-breathers freaking out over folks not hating the gays. [NPR] Will the Obama Campaign create a fancy website like this to hit Mittens Romney on his flip-floppy anti-gay ways? [Romney Economics] You should read this scathing op-ed about Steve Beshear’s road budget veto harming the residents of Clinton County. [H-L] For [...]

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Lawwwd, you can’t even trust the sheriff’s office in Lexington not to steal guns! Three employees with the Office of the Fayette County Sheriff have been charged in a case that involves confiscated guns that were pawned. [H-L] Game over for the climate? Like you even need to ask or answer that question. [NYT] The [...]

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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China gets the nod to take over a US bank, the first such US approval for a Chinese firm. [BBC] Makers of flame retardants manipulate research findings to back their products and downplay health risks. [Chicago Tribune] Colin Powell says that Dubya didn’t bother consulting his national security council on [...]

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Ouch, this editorial took Steve Beshear to task over his growing Medicaid scandal. Beshear can’t outsource responsibility for poor, sick Kentuckians to low-bidding out-of-state companies or the courts, as much as he might wish he could. [H-L] At the bottom of its press releases the US Postal Service brags that if it were a private [...]

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This is for Pennsylvania but you know it’s coming to the Commonwealth of Kentucky soon enough: Meanwhile, Kentucky’s in the group of the top ten worst public pension systems. The first public pension system in the United States is now declaring bankruptcy. Former Securities and Exchange Commission attorney Ed Siedle warned ten years ago that [...]

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