The Environmental Protection Agency has concerns about the environmental impact of a 218-acre coal ash landfill in Trimble County proposed by Louisville Gas and Electric. [WFPL]

Way to go Carter County. You’ve done it again. An Carter County man was shot and killed by state troopers Wednesday after police said he pointed a rifle at them and refused to put it down. [H-L]

On a scale of 1 to 10, how sad will it be watching Andy Barr lose to Republican Ben Chandler one more time? [WTVQ]

It’s interesting that in stories like this one, it’s never mentioned how much Bill Bissett is paid to literally spin for the Kentucky Coal Association. That’s his job – to spin – not to provide facts or tell you anything based in reality. [C-J/AKN]

Hal Rogers continues to pretend that there’s some war on coal. Interesting that concern about a devastating practice (mountaintop removal) still equates to a war on every other form of mining in their feeble minds. [WKYT]

Public scholarship funds – meant for the needy – are benefiting private schools. Because that’s how the “conservatives” want it. [NY Times]

The Lexington-Fayette Urban County government has paid $60,000 to settle a lawsuit involving the July 2010 death of Dean Ferguson, a prisoner who collapsed at the local jail and later died. [H-L]

Here’s more of that fancy mainstream coverage about Kentucky. Voters registered a strong protest against President Barack Obama in Democratic primaries in solidly Republican Kentucky and Arkansas, while Republican Mitt Romney easily captured both states, according to unofficial election returns. [Reuters]

Is this maybe why America can’t have nice things? The Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday moved forward with legislation to increase airline passenger security fees, beating back a GOP attempt to keep them at current levels. [The Hill]

Consultants paid for by the University of Louisville are saying exactly what UofL money-drivers have been saying. Imagine that! What a coincidence. [Business First]

This American Airlines pilot believes sluts should pay the price based on his backwater beliefs. [Wonkette]

Even Colin Powell says the gays should be allowed to get married. Which will cause a bunch of racist twits to freak out. [HuffPo]

A study finds that – yet again – Fox News viewers are the least informed of all. You’re so shocked, we know. [HuffPo]

Two top U.S. financial regulators said on Tuesday the issues around the initial public offering of Facebook should be reviewed, putting fresh pressure on the company, its lead underwriter, Morgan Stanley, and the Nasdaq stock exchange. [Reuters]

The UofL Indigent Care Board got its ass handed to it in the latest audit by Adam Edelen. [The 'Ville Voice]

Wonder why Republicans are having trouble with Hispanics this cycle? Maybe because they’re comparing immigrants to dogs. [Politico]

How rural America got fracked. The environmental nightmare you know nothing about. [Mother Jones]

You should check out the comments from this school psychologist. Nope, not racist at all. And you wonder why America is effed up the goat butt. [Wonkette]

The Kentucky State Police will add a new tool to help solve crimes and analyze crash scenes. [WKYT]

Pakistan has sentenced the doctor who helped the United States find Osama bin Laden. And the U.S. continues to throw millions at that jacked up country of awful. [HuffPo]

Let’s take a look at the conservative fantasy history of civil rights. Yes, mouth-breathers, this means you. [NY Mag]

Mittens Romney versus Liberty Christ Rand Paul in 2016? Rand wishes. He believes he is the chosen one. [NPR]

The US could fall off a “fiscal cliff” if tax rises and spending cuts due to take effect at the end of 2012 are not avoided, auditors have said. [BBC]

Four in ten Democratic voters chose someone other than President Obama on Tuesday in primaries in Arkansas and Kentucky. [The Hill]

Like we told you would happen, the national press is pointing out how anti-Obama Kentucky Democrats happen to be. [WaPo]

Why the hell did it take a judge to decide it was okay for a kid to wear a gay t-shirt? [WKYT]

Nope, no one turned out to vote. So few voted, in fact, that it is embarrassing to be a Kentuckian at the moment. [H-L]

The top Democrat in charge of protecting his party’s majority in the Senate thinks it can be done. But he’s deeply concerned his organization won’t have the money to do it. [HuffPo]

Here’s how the mainstream looked at teabagger birther segregationist Marilyn Parker. The hilarity is here, folks, and it is golden. [C-J/AKN]

A majority of people think Mittens Romney was more concerned with profits than he was concerned with jobs at Bain. [Daily Kos]

We are so, so very sad. Newt Gingrich is all out of whore diamonds! The world is such an awful place. Poor Newt. [Wonkette]

BRAVE PATRIOT Teabagger Birther Marilyn Parker is now essentially a Louisville Metro Council member. PEE ALERT. Let’s take this trip down the crazy lane. [The 'Ville Voice]

How a 21-year-old college kid bankrolled a congressional primary victory in Kentucky. Here’s a look at the RonRandMassie teabagger kid. Also, Preston Bates. HAHAHA. [Mother Jones]

Here’s the Ronnie Ellis take on the Fourth Congressional District primary that played out for Republicans last night. [Ronnie Ellis]

All the sudden, Geoff Davis is concerned about outside groups having influence in Kentucky. [Ryan Alessi]

Way to go, Eastern Kentucky! Two women were shot in the face by a man who then turned the gun on himself in Stanton on Tuesday afternoon. [H-L]

Robert Wilcher, one of two Kentucky Retirement Systems board members representing county employees, resigned today. The board gets to appoint someone to fill his term. [Deep KRS Shenanigans]

From the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet: As mandated by the Kentucky Legislature, uninsured motorists across the Commonwealth will begin receiving notices in June that registrations for their personal vehicles will be canceled if they do not obtain required insurance or show proof of existing insurance. [Press Release & More Info]

This ad against Gary Moore and Alecia Webb-Edgington from the teabagger kid in Texas is hilarious. Alecia missed some votes and Gary went on a work trip. Ha. [Joe Gerth]

State Rep. Tim Moore is currently in flight training as part of his duty with the Air Force Reserve. Maybe he should fly over West Liberty to reflect on his insensitive and gross remarks about political choices and deadly storms? He sure needs a reality check on that front. [Deep Frankfort Thoughts]

Where the heck was this Herald-Leader editorial writer as all this was going down? Oh, right, completely ignoring the political realities of Frankfort. [H-L]

Secretary of State Alison Grimes says no one is going to vote in next Tuesday’s primary election. [Press Release]

Mitch McConnell is really mad at the Democrats again this week. He’s so mad he could spit if he had lips. [The Hill]

The Cabinet for Health and Family Services has launched a new website it says will enhance customer service re: child support. Customers can make payments, update information and check appointments. [Press Release]

Even Fox News says President Barack Obama is ahead of Mittens Romney. And that’s from their poll. [Politico]

For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing. [NPR]

The Texas teachers’ pension fund invested in casinos and lost $99 million. Those casino owners who got the investment? They were Gov. Rick Perry’s donors. Sounds just like Kentucky! [Dallas Morning News Here & Here]

New claims for jobless benefits last week held at levels suggesting sluggish growth in hiring and factory activity in the mid-Atlantic region contracted in May, worrisome signs for a still-fragile economic recovery. [Reuters]

Now Steve Beshear has a good excuse to get rid of one of Daniel Mongiardo’s last guys, Jerry Lunsford. [H-L]

What was that, again, about us being the only folks to criticize Rand Paul, mouth-breathers? [C-J/AKN]

Didn’t take long for CoventryCares to resume coverage of that addiction drug. [Business First]

Whaaaaat? An undercover gay bathhouse spy was endorsed by Michele Beard Bachmann? Nope, it’s not her husband! This is getting more and more interesting. [Wonkette]

This story about Morehead State will literally make you pee your pants while laughing. [H-L]

Here’s a nice look at how Louisvillians will be screwed by the Louisville Water Company and Metro Sewer District. BEND OVER AND GRAB YOUR ANKLES! [C-J/AKN]

Really, you can’t even sit at home in Lexington without having your home invaded these days. [WKYT]

In Pennsylvania, there’s an industrial revolution going on. Battalions of drilling rigs are boring into the earth to extract natural gas from an underground layer of shale called the Marcellus formation. And as the wells multiply all along the western end of the state, people worry they may be facing another toxic legacy. [NPR]

On April 8th Envisat, Europe’s largest Earth-observing satellite, unexpectedly stopped talking to its users on the Earth below. Since then those users have been frantically trying to re-establish contact. [The Economist]

The House GOP leadership is moving swiftly to try to change the Violence Against Women Act to earn support from outside groups and gain passage on the floor. [Politico]

Doesn’t look like President Barack Obama’s decision to say he doesn’t hate the gays had much of an impact on polling. [Daily Kos]

The agreement over voting on amendments to the Export-Import Bank reauthorization legislation is a good example of how bills will make their way through the Senate, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday. [The Hill]

Is Thomas Massie a big time jobs creator? Not so much. And he’s following directly in Rand Paul’s hypocritical footsteps. [Page One Here & Here]

Despite his 2008 call to “let Detroit go bankrupt,” presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Monday that he would “take a lot of credit” for his impact on the U.S. automobile industry’s comeback. [HuffPo]

According to the latest polling data, a majority of Democrats support same-sex marriage. [Daily Kos]

Few have faced challenges as daunting as the one confronting Lyndon B. Johnson on November 22nd 1963. [The Economist]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called a vote to move Senate Democrats’ legislation to extend the current Stafford student loan interest rate a political stunt meant to win over young American voters. [The Hill]

Jerry Abramson and the Beshear Administration tried to hide today’s tax “reform” meeting by asking the Legislative Research Commission to keep its cameras turned off. [Page One]

Just par for the course, really, as Jerry is keen on things like tolling bridges just to toll them. He’s got a lot of excuses. [The 'Ville Voice]

Maybe Downtown Louisville wouldn’t be in such a sorry state if all of the city’s development cash hadn’t been squandered on Cordish Cos. [FOX41]

And the Medicaid wars rage on. This is going to be another black spot on the Beshear Misadministration. [H-L]

Does no one else think it’s odd that Rick Santorum endorsed Mittens Romney at 11:00 P.M.? [HuffPo]

This 5191 documentary has everyone in a tizzy lately. Are you ready for it? [WKYT]

Why is it still a surprise that Jefferson County leads all 119 other counties in tourism dollars spent? [WFPL]

Really, we’re all shocked that it’s always about money? And that someone threatened a lawsuit because someone else dared question where a VA hospital may be built? [C-J/AKN]

A majority of Kentuckians favor a statewide smoking ban. Interesting that David Williams supports it and Steve Beshear does not. [WFPL]

The copilot in the Comair 5191 crash speaks in a new documentary film. [H-L]

There is a party in the pants of “Exodus International,” and nobody wants to come! And that is why the group has canceled its upcoming “Love Won Out” convention, in which ex-gay ladies show off their human male husbands, and ex-gay men show off Michele Bachmann. [Wonkette]

Let’s get something clear: Crit Luallen did have enough information from Richie Farmer’s employees to do a scathing audit like Adam Edelen did. Jack Conway even had information about wrongdoing. I know because I’ve discussed it with their staffers for years. With more than 100 people on staff, Luallen certainly had the manpower to conduct such an audit. And while we’re talking about Farmer… why aren’t we talking about corrupt former Democratic commissioners like Logsdon? [Joe Gerth]

Hillary Clinton says she wants to see a female U.S. President but that it won’t be her. [HuffPo]

Why is it so expensive to buy or sell a house in the United States? The foreigns take a hard look at it. [The Economist]

Just changing your name when you’re a mega bank with mega problems won’t solve anything. [Reuters]

Lawwwd, you can’t even rent your house out in Lexington without finding two dead bodies in it. [WKYT]

Also, you probably can’t even go anywhere in Lexington without catching the pertussis! Whatever that is. (Okay, we know it’s whooping cough, but go with it.) [WLEX18]

US hostage Warren Weinstein has pleaded with President Barack Obama to meet his captors’ demands in a video released by al-Qaeda’s media arm, says US monitoring group Site intelligence. [BBC]

Remember last week when he got our hands on that fancy letter about state payroll problems? The mainstreamers wouldn’t have seen it otherwise. Yes, we’re tooting our own horn. [Page One]

This is proof that craft beer in Kentucky is a hot ticket. Now, if only Kentucky would recognize that killing the silly label tax could seriously fatten the state coffers. [H-L]

The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights last week publicly accepted three conciliation agreements in fair housing cases, including one in Madison County. [John Cheves]

What would you do if your home, place of employment and entire community were wiped off the face of the earth by a tornado? Recovery in Eastern Kentucky will take a long time and only the Red Cross remains on the ground supporting the people who most need it. [Click Here To Give]

It appears sustained deadly catastrophe is all it took to get “Real Americans” to believe that Faux News was just foaming at the mouth about global warming being a myth. [Wonkette]

The worst of the worst in Kentucky had a racist circle jerk in Frankfort on Saturday. No one was arrested and only a few verbal incidents took place. It was really cute watching all the sheet-wearing mouth-breathers have a public shouting session. [C-J/AKN]

Cutting benefits for the poor and increasing the Pentagon budget sounds like the smart thing to do. Let’s let the poors fend for themselves as we assplode a bunch of the world or whatever. That’s the Mittens Romney way. [HuffPo]

Are we in the middle of the third industrial revolution? The digitization of manufacturing could transform the way goods are made and change the politics of jobs, too. [The Economist & More Economist]

Many of the country’s biggest media companies, which own dozens of newspapers and TV news operations, are flexing their muscle in Washington in a fight against a government initiative to increase transparency of political spending. [Pro Publica]

Nearly six years after an explosion killed five miners at Kentucky Darby Mine No. 1 in Harlan County, the operators have not paid nearly $700,000 in civil fines and interest fees for safety violations connected to the accident. [C-J/AKN]

Republican elite are holding off the teabaggers. So much for that teabagger takeover, kids. [Politico]

President Barack Obama will use a tour of election battleground states next (this) week to push Congress to prevent interest rates on federal student loans from doubling, a move that could appeal to middle-class and younger voters crucial to his re-election chances. [Reuters]

Was Papaw Beshear’s veto funtimes over road projects in David Williams’ district vindictive? Since he didn’t veto projects in, you know, the district of anyone else? [WFPL]

You know you want to win a fancy copy of Jim Higdon’s Cornbread Mafia! Go enter ASAP and consider supporting his Kickstarter project to take the book on tour. [Page One]

A former emergency manager in Laurel County was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $241,000 in restitution in a federal fraud case, according to U.S. Attorney Kerry B. Harvey’s office. [H-L]

George Zimmerman was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. That’s not the end of the story, nope. But it means the justice system is doing it’s job. [HuffPo]

You think race isn’t an issue in the United States? You need a serious wake up call. [WaPo]

Can you imagine how hilarious it would be if Lindsay Graham really were a vice presidential pick? Oh, the mouth-breather closet case jokes we wish we could use. [Wonkette]

A federal jury convicted two people in Breathitt County on charges of conspiracy and vote-buying. Way to go, Eastern Kentucky. [H-L]

If you aren’t outraged over the good old boy corruption at KET, you are completely desensitized to the shenanigans in state government. [Page One]

Papaw Beshear line item vetoed 45 things in the state budget and people are about to foam at the mouth. [C-J/AKN]

Of course the White House is punting on a key executive order banning contractors from discrimination against the gays. If you expected anything different, you certainly have no political sense. Republicans and Democrats do things like this like it’s no big deal. [HuffPo]

Remember when that sports thing happened? The NCAA trophy is apparently being toured around the state. [WFPL]

According to the latest polling data, President Barack Obama is trusted more by the American people than Mittens Romney when it comes to taxes. [Daily Kos]

Mittens Romney’s “foreign policy” isn’t just hawkish, it’s murky. We can’t wait to see how his sister wives get put to use. [Reuters]

How is Muslin Witch Lady Michelle Obama taking the Jesus out of Easter now? SHE IS RUINING EASTER. HIDE YOUR KIDS. [Wonkette]

Don’t act like you’re shocked to hear the 99.99% fat, white Republican Party feels that there’s been too much media attention on the Trayvon Martin tragedy. [Politico]

Things aren’t so rosy on the jobs front in Eastern Kentucky. Specifically in Pike County, where 130 jobs at a single company were just cut. [H-L]

Of course it’s Mitch McConnell appointing a man who attacks U.S. Muslims to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. [WaPo]

Basically, Steve Beshear is going to appoint Irv Maze to an open Court of Appeals spot. [C-J/AKN]

Come on, Morehead, can we quit it with embarrassing people who do things like have stand-offs with police? [WLEX18]

The rest of the civilized world just sort of rolls its eyes at the United States for not having a form of universal health care. [The Economist]

Does anyone in Kentucky even have Current TV? We thought it was something that Al Gore was playing pat-a-cake with in San Francisco or whatever. [NPR]

Internet freedom starts at home and the United States needs to practice what it preaches online. [Public Policy]

Mittens Romney says President Barack Obama will end Medicare. Maybe we should all start wearing adult diapers until the November election. Pee alerts galore. [HuffPo]

On Saturday, the Obama Campaign will open its field office in Louisville. Which, well, doesn’t really mean anything, unfortunately. [Press Release]

The owner of the West Virginia mine where 29 men died in an explosion two years ago on Thursday says it will begin to permanently seal the mine soon and finish the job by summer. [WKYT]

Lexington residents are apparently concerned that violent sports-related celebrations will hurt that city’s image. [FOX41]