Franklin Circuit Judge Philip Shepherd denied a request by Gov. Steve Beshear to dismiss a Tea Party lawsuit challenging the legality of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange. [H-L] After years of vilifying prominent religious and conservative leaders, gay activists on Wednesday turned their ire to an unlikely target: Democrats. [Politico] The Louisville Metro Council on [...]

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In the past five years, Kentucky lawmakers have cut the state budget by $1.6 billion. But if something doesn’t change, they may have just begun to cut services. [Ronnie Ellis] Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is taking a page from President Obama’s reelection playbook for his own campaign — embracing Internet memes, data mining and cinematic [...]

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Law enforcement agencies across Western Kentucky are struggling with a declining number of officers and rising crime rates. Sheriffs in the region say having fewer officers available is leaving departments shorthanded for emergencies, causing scheduling headaches and delaying response times to calls. [H-L] Seven healthy horses in Baffert’s stable at Hollywood Park have died suddenly [...]

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In a desperate attempt to hide their bipartisan collusion in raiding pensions, the legislature and governor have put out a disastrous bill, Senate Bill 2, that not only tries to cover up their past indiscretions but harms local governments and non-profits as well. [H-L] Where’s Jack Conway on this? Oh, right. New York’s attorney general [...]

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Friends of the Jackson Independent School were shocked when the small K-12 school ran short of money and needed a line of credit to get through last fiscal year. [H-L] In the constant race to be the best America is falling behind other large, wealthy nations in at least one major category: Employing the nation’s [...]

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Homophobe Whitney Westerfield is yet again revealing his true colors. This time to the teevee folks: Kentucky is one of three states with a gaping hole in its laws aimed at protecting citizens who are in abusive relationships, and one conservative freshman state senator wants to see that changed. -SNIP- Westerfield said when he first [...]

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The administration of Eastern Kentucky University fired EKU Center for the Arts director Debra Hoskins on June 12 because of allegations including fiscal misconduct and falsification of university records and documents. [H-L] Scientists monitoring global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations report that, for the first time in human history, CO2 levels could soon rise above 400 [...]

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Jeff Hoover retweeted something interesting: Hoover, though not remarkably short statured like Greg Stumbo, seems to feel his manhood is threatened whenever anything gay gets mentioned.

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Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is endorsing former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s (R) House campaign, a move that could help Sanford regain his footing in the race and improve Paul’s standing in the early-voting presidential state. [The Hill] The discrimination dispute between the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization of Lexington and T-shirt printer Hands On Originals [...]

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The former poster child of the “ex-gay movement” renounced his controversial past beliefs in an email interview with PQ Monthly last week. [HuffPo] The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the state can be sued over changes made to Kentucky’s retirement system in 2008. [H-L] Kentucky is seeing rising unemployment at the county level with [...]

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