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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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