This week Governor Steve Beshear and First Lady Jane Beshear spend 1:53 discussing the anniversary of 9/11

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The Third Annual Golden Poo Awards are under way and all ten categories have been opened for nominations. Make your voice heard. We’ll start counting up votes and making considerations this weekend. [Page One] Next Thursday at 2:30 P.M. President Barack Obama will award Kentuckian Dakota Meyer the Medal of Honor. Meyer was born in [...]

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Allison Martin says Jack Conway can investigate allegations that Steve Beshear and crew violated campaign finance law by forcing state employees to donate cash. But that’s hogwash. Not a snowball’s chance in hell Jack’s office could conduct that investigation without personal feelings getting in the way. [Ronnie Ellis] Are you shocked that a state Energy [...]

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Papaw Steve Beshear has been to Indier, Eye-Rack, Afghannystan. He’s just been everywhere. And with the release of this new Flickr set from the governor’s office, you just know his latest trip is going to turn into a campaign commercial. Here are a couple of our favorite images: Any bets on how long he’ll try [...]

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Yesterday Governor Steve Beshear visited the Joint Base Balad in Iraq (and went to Kuwait). “In Kentucky, we truly appreciate and support the thousands of troops from our home state who are serving in the far reaches of the world, who protect our nation’s security and promote peace,” said Gov. Beshear. “When the Pentagon invited [...]

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Really? You’re shocked a Beshear staffer called Alliance Coal to tell them Ron Mills had been fired? Hope Kerri Richardson loves knowingly lying to the press about how staffing decisions are made. [John Cheves] Let’s assume the latest SurveyUSA data are accurate. David Williams is at 28, Steve Beshear at 52, Gateweed Galbraith 9, with [...]

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A West Virginia University has discovered (shocker) that poverty and mountaintop removal mines are linked. How long will it take King Coal to tie this to inbreeding? [H-L] Styrofoam and light bulb wars continue to heat up in the U.S. House because mouth-breathers are just too stupid for common sense. [Politico] Hauling tons of nuclear [...]

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Yesterday was the 79th day in a row for Republican Party of Kentucky Chairman Steve Robertson to question Jack Conway’s involvement in his brother’s drug investigation: “Jack Conway was once considered the heir to a Democrat dynasty,” said Robertson. “But his poor judgment both professionally and politically has lead to his crippling defeat in a [...]

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What REALLY happened in Owen County in 2009? Ralph Dunlop takes a look back. [C-J/AKN] Can you believe this crazy LG&E murder-suicide? Jesus H! [H-L] Bargaining and blackmail. Or how the Republicans’ intransigence on tax increases might rebound against them. [The Economist] Everyone seems to be freaking out over Mitch McConnell’s perceived problem with the [...]

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Dear Kenny Colston: Come the eff on. Hilltop Public Solutions has hundreds of ties to Kentucky. From Mark Riddle to me. If you’re really grasping at straws about what they’re doing, you should just give up. It’s a Beshear push – borne out of Leonard Lawson fear. And they’re raising very little money/DGA may not [...]

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