A special lawmaking session to redraw state legislative districts started Monday with high hopes that it will end Friday with bipartisan agreement on reworked House and Senate districts. [H-L]
The Senate’s most prominent climate change skeptic, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), called in to Mike Huckabee’s radio show on Monday to discuss conspiracy theories on global warming and the Obama administration’s plans to deal with it. [HuffPo]
The Kentucky Supreme Court will hear arguments next week that could settle three years of legal wrangling over whether Instant Racing machines are, as touted, just another legal pari-mutuel bet — or unauthorized slot machines. [C-J/AKN]
Of course Grandmother Hal Rogers is one of the nine congresscritters up for re-election without a campaign website. [Click the Clicky]
State House Majority Leader Rocky Adkins said Monday he is considering moving his residence from Catlettsburg to one of the counties in the newly drawn House 99th District. [Ronnie Ellis]
Democrats have long despised Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) but they hope he wins his primary race against Matt Bevin because they view him as an easier opponent in 2014. Or maybe they’re realizing Bevin is an extremist lunatic who would be worse than Mitch McConnell. [The Hill]
Fayette Circuit Judge James Ishmael ruled Monday that former state lawmaker Steve Nunn is liable for $20 million in punitive damages and $3,827,968.97 in compensatory damages for causing the death of Amanda Ross. [H-L]
Things that don’t matter: Fringe teabagger groups being mad at Mitch McConnell and running web ads about defunding health care reform. [WaPo]
Jimmy Rose was not on the national stage performing for America’s Got Talent on Monday. Instead he attended an open house for Congressman Hal Rogers in Perry County. [WYMT]
The National Security Agency assured Americans last week that it only surveils a tiny percentage of the web data it collects. But it turns out the NSA screwed up the math, and that percentage was off by an order of magnitude. [The Atlantic]
With the special legislative session beginning today to focus on redistricting, we thought it’d be a good idea to focus on something that actually matters – Kentucky’s fiscal health. [Page One]
A spokesman for Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the head of the Appropriations State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee, told The Daily Beast that the Obama administration has decided to withhold aid from Egypt. [HuffPo]