Since Jack Conway took it upon himself to malign a company (two companies, actually – Urban Outfitters and Big Mouth Toys) without ever bothering to reach out to them? We thought it’d be a good idea to do something about it. Because, really, where was Jack Conway when countless other issues impacted the Commonwealth of [...]

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Hal Rogers has been calling Urban Outfitters out for selling shot glasses and pint glasses that look like prescription pill bottles. Like clockwork, Jack Conway has decided to jump on the bandwagon. From a press release: Attorney General Jack Conway is calling on Urban Outfitters, the national retail store popular with teens, to stop selling [...]

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A judge has been appointed to Kentucky’s longest-running death row case after an Associated Press inquiry into why it had been pending for 16 months without a judge. [H-L] Hillary Clinton clears the field as the Democratic candidate of choice in a new 2016 presidential poll. [Politico] Attorney General Jack Conway said he’s had a [...]

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Kentucky State Police said Wednesday it is too early to say whether charges will be filed in the case of a 5-year-old boy who accidentally shot and killed his 2-year-old sister. [H-L] Congress decided last week to ease the effects of the across-the-board federal spending cuts on travelers upset over airport delays. But low-income Americans [...]

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The issue of alleged racism at the University of Kentucky? Seems people finally noticed: Officials from the Lexington branch of the NAACP met with leaders of the University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine Friday to discuss concerns about the low number of African American and Hispanic students enrolled at the school. -SNIP- Last year a [...]

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Really, who is surprised that Keith Hall is once again in ethical hot water? The Legislative Ethics Commission and its leadership are an absolute cowardly joke. [C-J/AKN] The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night gave President Barack Obama a chance to take humor-laced shots at those things in Washington that rub him the [...]

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With federal investigators in the midst of a frenzied investigation of Richie Farmer’s wasted mountain of cash, we can’t help but think of Kentucky Educational Television. Specifically, we can’t help but wonder what the accounting looks like. And more specifically, how KET spent $225,000 of Corporation for Public Broadcast funds. It’s interesting that all/most of [...]

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Jack Conway didn’t want to be outdone by Alison Grimes, so he made his own photo ops in Perry and Pike Counties: Right now, Jack is welcoming attendees to the Kentucky Junior Historical Society’s annual conference at the University of Louisville. We’re not sure what he has to do with history but it’s bound to [...]

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Attorney General Jack Conway said Wednesday “there’s a good chance” that he will run for governor in 2015 and that he won’t “defer to anybody” when making his decision to run. Unfortunately for Jack, all the big money is leaving him in the dust and it’s backing Adam Edelen. [C-J/AKN] In a major step toward [...]

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In 2007, Kentucky Retirement Systems seeded yet another private equity firm. The company was Mountain Capital and KRS placed $50 million with the firm. That was after New Mountain gave placement agent Credit Suisse $169,000 to arrange the deal. After that, New Mountain used its mountain of retiree cash to fund Strayer University, which opened [...]

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