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Entries Tagged as 'Environment'

Energy Improvement Production Grants Awarded

May 24th, 2012 · No Comments

The Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund just doled out $700,000 ($696,288, specifically) in On-Farm Energy Efficiency and Production grants and this is why Kentucky can have nice things. You won’t often see us hyping anything that lame duck hack/retributionist Steve Beshear promotes but this is one rare instance. The first round (nearly $2 million will be [...]

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Tags: Economy · Environment · Kentucky Business

Kentucky Still The Butt Of The Nation’s Jokes

May 24th, 2012 · 1 Comment

Opposition to gay marriage has hit a new low among Americans, weeks after President Barack Obama announced his support for it, according to a new poll Wednesday. [Politico] The Environmental Protection Agency has concerns about the environmental impact of a 218-acre coal ash landfill in Trimble County proposed by Louisville Gas and Electric. [WFPL] Way [...]

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Tags: Ben Chandler · Discrimination · Eastern Kentucky · Education · Environment · Flashback · Hal Rogers · Health Care · Mainstream Mistake · Polling · The Gays · UofL · Wasted Money

So Much Great News About Kentucky Nationally

May 23rd, 2012 · 1 Comment

Kentucky has the second highest rate in the nation of children living with relatives or close family friends instead of biological parents, according to a report from a national foundation released Wednesday. [H-L] A study finds that – yet again – Fox News viewers are the least informed of all. You’re so shocked, we know. [...]

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Tags: Adam Edelen · Corruption · Discrimination · Economy · Environment · Flashback · Law Enforcement · Mainstream · Polling · Presidential Race · Rand Paul · Stats · UofL · Youth

Rogers Still Dripping Bacon Grease Like Crazy

May 21st, 2012 · 7 Comments

Really? You’re shocked that former Massey CEO Don Blankenship was part of Steve Beshear’s Kentucky Derby entourage? And that all of his biggest donors got first pick of the best 360 seats at Churchill Downs? [CJ/AKN Here & Here] Donors to Hal Rogers (shocker!) got a sweet deal from the government to sell them $6.5 [...]

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Tags: Afghanistan · Barack Obama · Campaign Finance · Corruption · Environment · Hal Rogers · Kentucky Business · Presidential Race · Rand Paul · Steve Beshear · The Gays · Wasted Money

King Coal Spends $ Attacking Those With Concerns

May 18th, 2012 · No Comments

The Kentucky Coal Association freaks out and goes crazy on anybody who dares question mountaintop removal. So what’s the latest? A super-expensive “white paper” attacking the Sierra Club. Take a look: CLICK FOR PDF Bill Bissett wishes desperately that he could be accepted by everybody as a non-spinster. But. Uh. As long as the KCA [...]

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Tags: Corruption · Environment · Wasted Money

Open Meetings Compliance? Not In Lewis County!

May 16th, 2012 · No Comments

Mittens Romney’s incendiary debt speech was riddled with flaws and people are freaking out over it. [HuffPo] Mitch McConnell once again forgets that he is the pot calling the kettle black. [The Hill] How badly will the Time Warner transition from Insight hurt? Will lubrication be necessary for customers in Kentucky? [H-L] Kentuckians are already [...]

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Tags: Campaign Finance · Corruption · Education · Environment · Flashback · Hypocrisy · Investigation · KY-4 · Mitch McConnell · Presidential Race

Louisvillians About To Take It You-Know-Where

May 15th, 2012 · No Comments

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati has a program in which homeowners and renters who were displaced or who suffered damage to their primary homes might be eligible for grants of as much as $20,000 toward the purchase, construction or repair of a home. [H-L] What was that, again, about us being the only [...]

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Tags: College Sports · Eastern Kentucky · Environment · FEAR! · Giving Back · Health Care · Humor · KY-4 · Mitch McConnell · Polling · Presidential Race · Rand Paul

You Probably Don’t Hate The Gays Hard Enough

May 14th, 2012 · 4 Comments

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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Tags: Barack Obama · Budget · Corruption · Discrimination · Economy · Environment · Flashback · Humor · KY-4 · Mainstream · Presidential Race · Rand Paul · Steve Beshear · The Gays

Why Did McCheese Try To Hide His Tax Meeting?

May 9th, 2012 · 1 Comment

Poor Mittens Romney still can’t figure out where he stands on the issue of immigration. [HuffPo] Here’s the glowing mainstream media review of Jerry Abramson and his tax “reform” commission. Absolutely no mention of his attempt to stifle transparency and to keep proceedings secret. [C-J/AKN] Lexington got something else right: the council voted against discussing [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama · Eastern Kentucky · Education · Environment · Hypocrisy · Immigration · Mitch McConnell · Presidential Race · Senate · Steve Beshear · Taxes

What’ll Adam Edelen Uncover Next In Kentucky?

May 8th, 2012 · 1 Comment

A Floriduh judge denied a new trial to a lady standing her ground but totally not because she’s black. [Wonkette] The burden of air pollution and asthma is not evenly shared among U.S. children. [HuffPo] Folks love to hate David Williams and some of that hate is well-deserved. But he helped make this thing in [...]

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Tags: Adam Edelen · David L. Williams · Discrimination · Eastern Kentucky · Economy · Education · Environment · Hal Rogers · Kentucky Business · Kentucky Tourism · KY-4 · Poverty · Presidential Race · Takin yer guns! · The Gays · Youth