The Murray State University Board of Regents will hold another vote on whether to renew President Randy Dunn’s contract after Attorney General Jack Conway ruled the board met illegally before the first vote. [H-L] Looks like those meth laws in Oregon aren’t doing much for their problem – imagine that. A 21-month investigation by the [...]

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This story certainly won’t help the hemp push in Kentucky. Sure, hemp and marijuana are not the same thing but it’s clear the opposition’s fear is that hemp will lead to marijuana. Amid the whir of fans and the glow of soft white light, workers tended to bright green seedlings sprouting in a giant greenhouse. [...]

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Labor leaders and progressive economists hailed President Obama’s call, in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, to increase and index the federal minimum wage. [The Nation] Concerns by environmental representatives persuaded the Administrative Regulations and Review Subcommittee Monday to defer a new regulation proposed by the Cabinet for Energy and Environment on discharges of [...]

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Today, John Yarmuth co-filed legislation to push for a federal study on the impact of mountaintop removal mining. [The 'Ville Voice] U.S. spending on Social Security and healthcare will double to $3.2 trillion a year over the next decade, threatening a sharp rise in national debt unless Congress acts to avoid the danger, congressional researchers [...]

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A rising chorus of congressional Republicans are calling on President Obama to acknowledge that the pop singer Beyoncé lip-synched during his inaugural festivities on Monday and resign from office, effective immediately. [New Yorker] The House overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday to permit the government to borrow enough money to avoid a first-time default for at [...]

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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!] The foreclosure settlement leaves homeowners’ fate in banks’ hands. Meanwhile, Jack Conway continues to tout that mess in a new press release roughly every other day. [HuffPo] You glad Sannie Overly defeated Bob Damron? You [...]

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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!] Former Olive Hill Mayor Danny Sparks pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of marijuana trafficking and having an open alcohol container in a motor vehicle. [...]

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In his remaining three years as governor, Steve Beshear should redeem his dismal environmental record. This would fit the progressive attorney general and lieutenant governor Kentuckians once knew. Unfortunately, today’s Beshear shows little inclination along these lines, except to keep raking in political money from the coal industry. [H-L] Optimism about the country’s direction has [...]

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Americans swiped their credit cards more often in October and borrowed more to attend school and buy cars. The increases drove U.S. consumer debt to an all-time high. [HuffPo] In April 2009, William Everson, a faculty researcher at the Kentucky Pediatric Research Institute at the University of Kentucky, was helping a technician in the lab [...]

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Wondering who contributed to campaign finance convict Carroll Hubbard for the general election? Here are the highlights: Jerry Lundergan $1,000 Andrew Grimes $250 (Alison’s husband) Gary Wise $1,000 Plumbers & Pipefitters $1,000 United Mine Workers $1,000 Kentucky Society of Interventional Pain Physicians $1,000 Kentucky Educators Political Action Committee $1,000 Kentucky Dental PAC $500 Kentucky Attorneys [...]

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