Cabinet Secretary and State Budget Director Mary Lassiter sent a memo to state cabinet and agency heads regarding personnel restrictions.
Effective immediately:

ACE & ERA awards are suspended indefinitely
Employees are no longer allowed to work more than 40 hours per week except to “prevent or eliminate public or life safety situations” or to meet deadlines
Block 50/discretionary payments [...]

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David Williams and Richie Farmer will announce their candidacy at 11:00 A.M. today. [Page One]
Jack Conway and the folks at the Kentucky Democratic Republican-Lite Party need to educate their ignorant, ridiculous asses. The cost of extending the Bush tax cuts roughly equals the Social Security shortfall. And you people criticized me for questioning Daniel Logsdon’s [...]

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Today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that tons of Kentucky businesses, unions and government organizations have been accepted into the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program. The program helps maintain coverage for early retirees aged 55+ who aren’t yet eligible for Medicare. Those accepted receive reimbursement for medical claims.
“In these tough [...]

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You know how the state’s social workers spend about 80 hours per week trying to scrape by? Most without basic office supplies and the ability to care for the state? And how many had planned to take overtime in order to make sure Kentucky’s helpless children were a little less helpless?
Not gonna happen. [...]

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Two big reasons why Rand Paul’s ideas about addressing the drug problem in Eastern Kentucky are completely bogus and not based in reality. [Here & Here]
July food stamp participation in Kentucky jumped another one percent. Up 7,500 since June for a total of 794,818. 794,848! [Ugh]
Things aren’t looking too swell for Jack Conway in [...]

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This morning Rand Paul got stuck in the back of the ham breakfast at the Kentucky State Fair. He needed a full on booster seat to be seen.
Tons of Paul supporters were also roaming around complaining about having to buy a $25 ticket. Seems it would be wise to tell supporters important details [...]

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Some of you balk at the thought of the Agricultural Development Board investing in diversification projects across Kentucky. But anyone who has bothered to visit the small towns and meet the average Kentuckian? Anyone who has done that recognizes the importance of these investments and the impact they have on hundreds of thousands [...]

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Remember when Bowling Green City Commissioner Catherine Hamilton got caught giving guys blowjobs in the park? It was maybe one of the best political sexytime stories of the entire year. The Board of Ethics says she didn’t violate the city’s code. If she had blown him inside city property, however, that’d be [...]

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The Education & Work Force Development Cabinet is touting the fact that unemployment rates fell in 111 of Kentucky’s 120 counties between July 2009 and July 2011.
Here’s what the cabinet said in a release earlier today:
Boyd County recorded the lowest jobless rate in the Commonwealth at 7.7 percent. They were followed by Fayette and Oldham [...]

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Wonder how many of those non-merit state employees (the folks appointed by Steve Beshear) canned last week were folks who didn’t contribute to the Beshear – Abramson campaign? [Deep Thoughts]
Aww, how cute! Rand Paul says Barack Obama is an elitist on the non-existent mosque issue. And says liberals are arrogant in their [...]

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