The faux Family Foundation continues to rail against instant racing and anything that it thinks will upset Jesus or whatever. So the appeals court will offer a ruling in 4-6 weeks. [H-L] A top Obama administration official on Tuesday accused lawmakers in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives of living in a world of “fairy tales [...]

[Read more →]

What would you do if your home, place of employment and entire community were wiped off the face of the earth by a tornado? Recovery in Eastern Kentucky will take a long time and only the Red Cross remains on the ground supporting the people who most need it. [Click Here To Give] The people [...]

[Read more →]

Welp, looks like Papaw Beshear really did give up. The moment he realized the legislature wasn’t going to go gaga for horsey-only gambling, he just cold gave up. Eight days ago, we wondered why he had given up on keeping state employees and the general public up-to-date with his weekly videos. He dropped to once [...]

[Read more →]

Been wondering what happened to Papaw Beshear’s weekly videurtape updates? Us too, since his office last year demanded that all state employees watch them each week. Here’s a look at the last video his office released: CLICK TO ENLARGE We’re guessing he’s been a little bitter since gambling failed. Again.

[Read more →]

This week the Legislative Research Commission covers a lot of ground… FRANKFORT — With a casino-gambling bill beat and legislative redistricting struck down by the state Supreme Court — one after the other in a dramatic 24 hours last Thursday and Friday — the 2012 session left a conflicted February in its rearview mirror this [...]

[Read more →]

How much you want to bet that more than one person in Tourism signed off on the language this firm is being blamed for? Kentucky is canceling its $179,900-a-year contract with a British marketing firm that touted “Roadkill Bingo” as one of the state’s tourist attractions. [John Cheves] Surely you find it highly entertaining that [...]

[Read more →]

This week? We love that Steve Beshear and a handful of those bitter over horsey gambling are trying to blame David Williams for “killing” it. Never mind that it was, you know, everyone else in the state who did so. Primarily progressive Democrats who don’t believe in constitutionally guaranteeing right of ownership to five corporations [...]

[Read more →]

Why was David Ray fired by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet? We hear it’s because he told law enforcement and other investigators the truth about what’s been going on in at least two investigations. Political donors and KYTC officials don’t like the truth. One involves highway painting and another involves contract bidding. We smell a federal [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

State Rep. Reggie Meeks asks the question everyone else is wondering about: For all the hype we spout about being the Horse Capital of the World; our Kentucky thoroughbred as being the “crotch rockets” — in motorcycle vernacular — of the Sport of Kings, the 21 – 16 Senate rejection of expanded gaming to bolster [...]

[Read more →]