Steve Beshear and his wife, Jane, released 2012 state and federal income tax returns Tuesday that showed a total joint gross income of $252,164 — an increase of more than $55,000 from 2011. [H-L] Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is using footage of President Richard Nixon and recently testifying IRS officials to bash President Barack [...]

[Read more →]

Watching the national folks freak out over homophobic state legislators makes it clear that they’ve never paid attention to Kentucky. [HuffPo] Dietician and health advocate Anita Courtney and the Teens Against Tobacco Use organization are the winners of the 2013 Public Health Heroes awards from the Lexington-Fayette County Board of Health. [H-L] No one in [...]

[Read more →]

Steve Beshear can’t let the folks in Indiana get too much press on this issue so last week he decided to do a video about hiring veterans:

[Read more →]

We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen. [Support Our New Project!] That’s because it’s all hype, it’s not happening. Polly Judd is skeptical of talk that her famous granddaughter, actress Ashley Judd, might run for U.S. Senate in Kentucky as a Democratic challenger to [...]

[Read more →]

We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen. [Support Our New Project!] That sound you heard was the absence of Martha Jane King at a Veterans’ Day event in Russellville yesterday. She refused the mayor’s requests to attend. We hear she was too busy having [...]

[Read more →]

Steve Beshear decided to do another video and this week he focuses on Veterans’ Day:

[Read more →]

We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen. [Support Our New Project!] Wondering why the Kentucky Democratic Party is a disaster that can win a simple Metro Council race? The Kentucky Democratic Central Executive Committee has transferred $350,000 over the past month to Ohio, where [...]

[Read more →]

Way to go, Rand Paul, for helping block jobs for veterans. You’re doing what you do best. Obstructing, obfuscating and being an embarrassment to Kentucky. [NYT] The jury was given the chance to decide in the murder trial of Lisa Gilliam. They left the courtroom in the afternoon and returned a few hours later, but [...]

[Read more →]

A Kentucky law passed this year to protect students of for-profit colleges mistakenly excludes many of those schools, including three that the attorney general has sued over allegedly misleading claims. [C-J/AKN] A Kentucky-based organization that provides financial aid to veterans is seeing a spike in the number of requests as the conflicts in Iraq and [...]

[Read more →]

To the Democrats and Republicans complaining about Chris Hightower advertisements: get over yourselves. We’ll take ad dollars from nearly anybody. If someone wants in front of our audience, we’re willing to let them access our audience. Partisanship be damned. Maybe you’ve forgotten we’re the reason he lost his job in 2010? And that ads don’t [...]

[Read more →]