University of Kentucky HealthCare officials said Monday they will use $30 million in cash to outfit the 8th floor of Pavilion A at UK Chandler Hospital in coming months. [H-L] The Democratic-run U.S. Senate passed a $500 billion, five-year farm bill on Monday that expands a taxpayer-subsidized crop insurance program and rejects sweeping cuts in [...]

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An eastern Kentucky mayor who previously announced his resignation has changed his mind and decided to stay in office. [H-L] Consumer prices fell in March for the first time in four months as the cost of gasoline tumbled, providing scope for the Federal Reserve to maintain its monetary stimulus to speed up economic growth. [Reuters] [...]

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Standard & Poor’s said it expects to be the target of a U.S. Department of Justice civil lawsuit over its mortgage bond ratings, the first federal enforcement action against a credit rating agency over alleged illegal behavior tied to the recent financial crisis. [Reuters] Here’s your duh moment about Crit Luallen considering a run for [...]

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Lexington’s fire department responded to a fire inside a research building on the University of Kentucky’s campus Tuesday night. The fire started inside a glassware dryer on the second floor of the Kentucky Tobacco Research and Development Center, Major Chuck Bonta said. [H-L] In 2007, U.S. regulators cleared Boeing’s use of a highly flammable battery [...]

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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!] Consumer advocates have complained that U.S. mortgage lenders are getting off easy in a deal to settle charges that they wrongfully foreclosed on many homeowners. [HuffPo] A former superintendent at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch [...]

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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!] That sound you hear is Dudley Webb trying to screw something else up in Lexington. This thing? A children’s museum. We kid you not. [H-L] Paul Krugman is worried about our future. The Nobel Prize-winning [...]

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There was a time last spring when it looked like The David School might not survive. After nearly four decades of helping students who’d had problems in public schools, the private school in a hollow outside the old Floyd County coal town of David was broke. [H-L] The just-completed deal to resolve the so-called fiscal [...]

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We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen because it’s so close we can taste it. [Support Our New Project!] What pension crisis? Steve Beshear has appointed his fourth Republican legislator to a fancy state job. This time it’s Danny Ford making $85,000 as surplus [...]

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An Iranian national and an American citizen who worked as an airline pilot pleaded guilty Monday in a plot to ship helicopters and aircraft parts for Iran’s state-run civilian airline, in violation of the U.S. trade embargo. [WaPo] A faith-based group is organizing against a countywide vote to allow alcohol sales in Greenup County in [...]

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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!] Election Day, as it usually is, was a good day to be an incumbent. Unless you were Republican-lite Ben Chandler. [WaPo] State Rep. Sara Beth Gregory and Albany lawyer David Cross said Wednesday [...]

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