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Entries Tagged as 'Kentucky Business'

Energy Improvement Production Grants Awarded

May 24th, 2012 · No Comments

The Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund just doled out $700,000 ($696,288, specifically) in On-Farm Energy Efficiency and Production grants and this is why Kentucky can have nice things. You won’t often see us hyping anything that lame duck hack/retributionist Steve Beshear promotes but this is one rare instance. The first round (nearly $2 million will be [...]

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Tags: Economy · Environment · Kentucky Business

Rogers Still Dripping Bacon Grease Like Crazy

May 21st, 2012 · 7 Comments

Really? You’re shocked that former Massey CEO Don Blankenship was part of Steve Beshear’s Kentucky Derby entourage? And that all of his biggest donors got first pick of the best 360 seats at Churchill Downs? [CJ/AKN Here & Here] Donors to Hal Rogers (shocker!) got a sweet deal from the government to sell them $6.5 [...]

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Tags: Afghanistan · Barack Obama · Campaign Finance · Corruption · Environment · Hal Rogers · Kentucky Business · Presidential Race · Rand Paul · Steve Beshear · The Gays · Wasted Money

Your Weekly Transportation Lady Video Update

May 18th, 2012 · No Comments

This week the Transportation Lady discusses Kentucky-built automobiles that are featured on the cover of the 2012 Official Kentucky Highway Map, which is apparently a thing:

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Tags: Kentucky Business · Kentucky Tourism · Spotted

Papaw Isn’t Going Over To Indier This Time

May 11th, 2012 · No Comments

RONNIE ELLIS IS BACK! Everybody go read this ASAP! [Ronnie Ellis] Don’t miss Comment on Kentucky tonight at 8:00 P.M. Eastern on KET. Scheduled guests: Russ Cassady, Bill Estep, Tom Loftus. Sure to be a great show with Cassady – the editor of the Appalachian News-Express. [KET] Steve Nunn’s attorney, Warren Scoville, finally ditched him. [...]

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Tags: Afghanistan · Discrimination · Eastern Kentucky · Economy · FEAR! · Journalism · Kentucky Business · KY-4 · Law Enforcement · Steve Beshear

Some Teabagger Hypocrisy On Farm Subsidies

May 10th, 2012 · No Comments

Thomas Massie has spent a lot of time trash talking farm subsidies lately. Particularly during a visit to Shelbyville where he spoke to a group of farmers. But you know what’s really cute? The teabagger hypocrisy. Thomas Massie most certainly doesn’t have a problem taking farm subsidies for himself. He just doesn’t like it when [...]

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Tags: Hypocrisy · Kentucky Business · KY-4

What’ll Adam Edelen Uncover Next In Kentucky?

May 8th, 2012 · 1 Comment

A Floriduh judge denied a new trial to a lady standing her ground but totally not because she’s black. [Wonkette] The burden of air pollution and asthma is not evenly shared among U.S. children. [HuffPo] Folks love to hate David Williams and some of that hate is well-deserved. But he helped make this thing in [...]

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Tags: Adam Edelen · David L. Williams · Discrimination · Eastern Kentucky · Economy · Education · Environment · Hal Rogers · Kentucky Business · Kentucky Tourism · KY-4 · Poverty · Presidential Race · Takin yer guns! · The Gays · Youth

One Of Many Audits Crit SHOULD Have Conducted

May 7th, 2012 · No Comments

This wasn’t exactly the right story to be featuring on the front of the paper on the biggest tourism weekend of the year in Kentucky. Especially when it’s a hit on one of the state’s signature industries and sources of tax revenue. [The 'Ville Voice] A majority of Kentuckians favor a statewide smoking ban. Interesting [...]

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Tags: Crit Luallen · Discrimination · Economy · FEAR! · Flashback · Investigation · Jack Conway · Kentucky Business · Kentucky Tourism · Mainstream Mistake · Polling · Presidential Race · Richie Farmer · The Gays

Dear State Employees: Sorry About Your Luck

May 4th, 2012 · 3 Comments

What? You’re a state employee looking to get paid when you normally do? And you have all kinds of bills set to be automatically paid? And maybe you’ve had your vacation scheduled for months and months? Haha, yeah, sorry bout yer luck! At least, that’s what Steve Beshear and his Personnel Secretary, Tim Longmeyer, say [...]

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Tags: Budget · Economy · Kentucky Business · Steve Beshear

Shame On You For Stealing All Of That Cornbread!

May 3rd, 2012 · 2 Comments

This candidate in Texas says you shouldn’t pee on an electric fence. Or something like that. [Wonkette] How dare Mittens Romney hire a known homosexual to do campaign work! The shame! Horror! [HuffPo] Calumet Farm finally sold for $36 million. Guess the claims that it wasn’t being sold were flat-out lies. [H-L] Have you ever [...]

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Tags: Adam Edelen · Barack Obama · Corruption · Eastern Kentucky · Economy · Flashback · Humor · Kentucky Business · Law Enforcement · Poverty · Presidential Race · Richie Farmer · The Gays

KYTC Just Loves Wasting Your Sweet Tax Dollars

May 3rd, 2012 · 1 Comment

Sorry, Thomas Massie absolutely lying about not having seen the mail piece attacking his opponents. I discussed with with one of his campaign staffers the day I published it and they shared with me Massie’s thoughts on the piece. [WFPL] An insurance provider must continue to pay for members to be treated at Eastern Kentucky’s [...]

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Tags: Corruption · Eastern Kentucky · Economy · Education · Health Care · Jobs · Kentucky Business · KY-4 · Presidential Race · Steve Beshear · Taxes · Wasted Money