You know how we hyped the story about a painting of a naked Golden Girl selling for $1.9 million? Well, check this crap out: As you may have heard, last night at Christie’s, a painting of Bea Arthur entitled “Bea Arthur Topless” was purchased for $1.9 million. Was this buy the latest pick-me-up in Steve [...]

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Then take that agency’s janky web survey and let your thoughts be known. Click here to access it. Here’s the email message that accompanied the LMAS survey link: We hope you are enjoying the pet you adopted from Louisville Metro Animal Services (LMAS). As part of our quest to continually improve the services we deliver [...]

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Oh, great. Now this mess involves Kentucky Retirement Systems: California legislative leaders and 10 public employee unions announced opposition Wednesday to any sale of the Los Angeles Times and other Tribune Co. newspapers to a pair of wealthy brothers who fund conservative causes throughout the country. In a letter dated Tuesday to Bruce Karsh, president [...]

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You remember it, right? The Cumberland Valley’s health departments are a hot mess. Now we hear one of their administrative office employees in Manchester was laid off last week. While another employee is being allowed to work Fridays – furlough days. We thought when everyone got the boot in January that this sort of drama [...]

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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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Have you seen what’s happening in Illinois with non-government employees in government employee pension systems? Here’s a taste: For years, the big debate about reforming the state’s heavily underfunded pension system has centered on how many billions the state could save and how much money retirees might lose. But the proposal the House passed last [...]

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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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Why do we think people with common sense (rare, we know) in Frankfort should have been running away from SAC Capital and Blackstone instead of pumping tens of millions into them? Here’s a taste from Vanity Fair: Then came the formation of SAC at the dawn of the hedge-fund age, in 1992, its returns so [...]

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Take a look: The civil lawsuits surrounding the state investment scandal have grown into a cottage industry for New Mexico lawyers. In a recent state Court of Appeals case, 25 law firms ranging from the large, like Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, to one-lawyer firms, like Gregg Vance Fallick, were listed as representing a [...]

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Joseph Adam Minor has been on the stand in a federal courtroom in Bowling Green for about five hours over the course of two days, and only two out of four attorneys have questioned him so far. [Glasgow Daily Times] The old county courthouse lawyer came out in Hal Rogers last week as the Kentucky [...]

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