Franklin Circuit Judge Philip Shepherd denied a request by Gov. Steve Beshear to dismiss a Tea Party lawsuit challenging the legality of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange. [H-L] After years of vilifying prominent religious and conservative leaders, gay activists on Wednesday turned their ire to an unlikely target: Democrats. [Politico] The Louisville Metro Council on [...]

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The Fayette County Public Schools plan to slash work days for 42 directors of the district’s family resource centers next year because of continued government funding reductions. [H-L] Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens on Thursday cast doubt on the criteria used to decide the 2000 Bush v. Gore case that ultimately delivered the [...]

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The former poster child of the “ex-gay movement” renounced his controversial past beliefs in an email interview with PQ Monthly last week. [HuffPo] The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the state can be sued over changes made to Kentucky’s retirement system in 2008. [H-L] Kentucky is seeing rising unemployment at the county level with [...]

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It’s probably not a good day for the Kentucky Department of Highways in Bowling Green, to say the least. [BGDN] Former President Bill Clinton, speaking at the George W. Bush Presidential Center dedication on Thursday, said that he had considered asking his successor to paint a picture of him, but joked that he backed off [...]

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About the only thing this McConnell audio scandal is missing is ominous banjo music humming in the background. Or maybe banjo with a gay escort electronica beat. [Deep Thoughts] Curtis Morrison launched a legal defense fund plea. Go take a look for yourself. [Click the Clicky] “The so-called super PAC is two basic amateurs ” [...]

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The campaign arm of the congressional GOP is moving to reboot its polling operation after a messy 2012 cycle, the first concrete remedy taken by the Republican side since candidates and outside groups were left stunned on Election Day by results that their internal data never came close to predicting. [Politico] A federal appeals court [...]

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Ten years and $60 billion in American taxpayer funds later, Iraq is still so unstable and broken that even its leaders question whether U.S. efforts to rebuild the war-torn nation were worth the cost. Thank goodness we invaded to help soothe Dubya’s ego. [HuffPo] A woman accused of neglecting horses and other animals in Woodford [...]

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We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. You can help. [Support Our New Project!] It’s past time Kentucky confronted its own fiscal cliff represented by more than $33 billion in unfunded liabilities in its pension system, local leaders said Monday. [Ronnie Ellis] Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been [...]

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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!] The Republican Party of Kentucky wrongly claimed that Republican Ben Chandler voted for ObamaCare. [H-L] The Kentucky Commission on Tax Reform is planning to ask for an extension. That’s according to commission chair [...]

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Any frequent reader of this column knows how I love the history and the colorful characters and stories of Kentucky politics. [Ronnie Ellis] Researchers have been looking into the amount of prescriptions that go unfilled for kids on Medicaid and they’ve found some pretty startling results: Almost 17,000 or 22% of prescriptions at two clinics [...]

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