Media outlets are reporting varying stories about damage in Eastern Kentucky. If anyone has Morgan County information, specifically, please chime in. Am hearing everything from “slight damage to the court house” to “Main Street is leveled.” Update from the Governor’s Office and Emergency Management: Heavy damage to Trimble County Fire Station No. 2, near Milton [...]

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Be safe, folks: Make sure you have enough Coke Zero to get you through any disaster situation. And make sure you take care of your pets while taking care of yourself.

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Patients say the University of Louisville Hospital Emergency Room offers their only option for health care. [C-J/AKN] Florida legislators tried to take a page out of the Republican playbook in Kentucky on the drug testing front. Naturally, as legislators, they didn’t feel they needed to be tested for drugs. [Wonkette] What? You mean climate change [...]

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Really, ouch: The commonwealth’s other long-term liabilities are high, with the funding level for the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) only 36.1% as of June 30, 2011, down from 97.3% funded as of June 30, 2003. Funding levels for the commonwealth’s other retirement systems are better but have deteriorated as well due to investment losses [...]

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It’s not just about redistricting this week with the Legislative Research Commission staff! Here goes… FRANKFORT – Redistricting this week in a nutshell: A roller coaster ride in the Capitol. On Tuesday, a Franklin Circuit Court judge ruled that the boundaries lawmakers had drawn for their own House and Senate districts were unconstitutional. The ruling [...]

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This week the Legislative Research Commission provides a bit of a civics lesson: FRANKFORT –If you Google ‘How often do redistricting plans end up in court?’ you get 134,000 hits in 0.37 seconds. Somewhere in all those hits, you’ll likely now find ‘Kentucky redistricting 2012.’ A lawsuit challenging the recent state legislative reapportionment has not [...]

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Governor Steve Beshear’s office released photos of the US 68/KY 80 bridge disaster at Kentucky Lake: “We are grateful that this wreck caused no injuries or loss of life. Since that bridge carries 2,800 cars every day, we were very fortunate that no one was on the span at that time,” said Gov. Beshear. “We’ll [...]

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This week the State House Republicrats are really angry about redistricting and they talked about a fancy foreigner bird that pooped everywhere: Okay, so maybe it wasn’t so much bird poop… but it got you to watch the video, didn’t it?

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Earlier this afternoon, Republican State Rep. Ben Waide filed an alternative redistricting plan for the State House. “It is my belief that this plan is the most fair and balanced of any of the redistricting plans offered in this session,” Rep. Waide said. “Many Kentuckians, despite their political beliefs, are up in arms over the [...]

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Republican Bill Farmer filed a bill (HB304) today that would turn redistricting over to an independent panel Democrats will poo poo this in 3, 2…

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