Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday has warned the Clark County Board of Education that it must start implementing the district’s controversial facilities plan immediately or risk losing state education funding. [H-L] There are countless personal and societal factors that can contribute to stress, and financial stressors are some of the most discussed. Two of the [...]

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Kentucky prosecutors argued Monday that executions in Kentucky should resume because the state changed the way it would carry out lethal injections based on the concerns raised by condemned inmates who sued over the method. [H-L] Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) says he “can’t imagine” his view on gay marriage shifting, days after a prominent Republican [...]

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Republican Sen. Rob Portman’s surprise endorsement of gay marriage pushed the issue even further to the forefront of the national political conversation. But at the largest annual gathering of conservative activists this week, top speakers have been mostly mum about it. [Politico] People who live near mountaintop removal mining sites in Floyd County have significantly [...]

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Those who long saw McConnell as an establishment Republican appropriator have of late been wondering what he’s been smoking. [Ronnie Ellis] President Barack Obama’s decision to transform his campaign into the freestanding lobbying group “Organizing for Action” is groundbreaking in many ways — but the idea of creating an outside organization to put pressure on [...]

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that Republicans must “evolve” on immigration while preventing America from becoming a magnet for immigrants to come and get benefits. [Politico] Jerry Abramson will not be governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He can dream, though. [WBKO] When President Obama told supporters that he would morph his campaign into [...]

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In his remaining three years as governor, Steve Beshear should redeem his dismal environmental record. This would fit the progressive attorney general and lieutenant governor Kentuckians once knew. Unfortunately, today’s Beshear shows little inclination along these lines, except to keep raking in political money from the coal industry. [H-L] Optimism about the country’s direction has [...]

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We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen. [Support Our New Project!] A central Kentucky Walmart is back open after police discovered a meth lab on a customer. It started when a man walked into the bathroom of the Nicholasville Walmart on Wednesday. [WKYT] A [...]

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We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen. [Support Our New Project!] Federal environmental officials have signed off on the Tennessee Valley Authority’s preferred plan for the final cleanup of spilled coal ash. [H-L] Republican Party leaders on Wednesday began picking up the pieces of [...]

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We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen. [Support Our New Project!] Just like that, David Williams gets a super-fat pension and Papaw Beshear gets to play house in the State Senate for a little while. [Deep Frankfort Thoughts] The Kentucky Supreme Court has opted [...]

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We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen. [Support Our New Project!] A lower-court judge correctly ordered the state to pay more than $20,000 in fees and costs to attorneys for Kentucky’s two largest newspapers in a fight over child abuse records, the state Court [...]

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