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That’s the headline on CNN.  The headline NOT on CNN is:
Unable to pay bills, London, Ky. YMCA closes
And, the reason they decided to give up?
Director Don Burgin said the London-Laurel County “Y” struggled with $6,000 monthly utility bills and its budget was further stretched by an increase in the minimum wage.
And of course, who do [...]

Tags: budget, bush, closing, cnn, kentucky, london, minimum, nancy pelosi, non-profit, pelosi, unfunded mandate, wage, wages, ymca

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Last year Kentucky elected a new governor to replace the one we had. The one we had had been accused of inappropriate hiring practices. That never was resolved since the person making the charges decided to drop the charges so he could run for governor, and lose.
So, Kentucky ( not me ) elected a guy [...]

Tags: budget, constitution, democrat, donation, Ethics, governor, impeach, kentucky, lawyer, steve beshear, veto

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I read this post on Independent Sources and loved it so much I thought I’d run with it here.  Namely:
37-year old Arelia Margarita Taveras is an attorney with a serious ethics problem. She also has a gambling problem and lost her law practice, her apartment and her parents’ home, and she owes the IRS $58,000. [...]

Tags: addiction, arelia taveras, boz scaggs, gambling, governor, kentucky, lawyer, lido shuffle, steve beshear

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The entire time Republican Governor Ernie Fletcher was in office, Attorney General Greg Stumbo dogged him about hiring people based on political patronage.  Stumbo even went so far as to file corruption charges and seat a grand jury before dropping the charges so that he could run for governor himself.  People of Kentucky bought into [...]

Tags: adam-edelen, applebees, attorney general, crit-luallen, Ethics, governor, homeland-security, jack-conway, kentucky, patronage, steve beshear, US Regional Politics

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We had an election last night here in Kentucky.  This is how MSNBC interpreted it:
Cyclist Lance Armstrong and Kentucky’s new governor were among the few people who could get voters to embrace change on a day they seemed inclined to re-elect incumbents and reject ballot measures calling for new proposals.
I tired long ago of pointing [...]

Tags: change, democrat, ernie-fletcher, governor, kentucky, Media, media bias, National Politics, republican, status-quo, steve beshear

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I live in a very small town in very rural southern Kentucky. We don’t do a lot of newsworthy stuff here. However, I was rather shocked to see we had made national news, at least on Fox:
Skeletal Remains Found in Kentucky May Be Those of Former Slaves
Skeletal remains found during construction in south-central Kentucky may [...]

Tags: civil-war, grave, kentucky, Racism, skeleton, slave, slavery, somerset

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A central theme in this year’s gubernatorial race in Kentucky has been the consistant charge of how corrupt the current governor’s administration has been.  Fletcher was hit with several charges of illegal hiring practices by the current attorney general, Greg Stumbo.  When Stumbo decided to run for governor, this presented a conflict of interest.  So, [...]

Tags: ernie-fletcher, Ethics, governor, greg-stumbo, kentucky, steve-beshears, US Regional Politics

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Here in Kentucky, we had to endure a rather ugly political fight for about a year ( it felt like a LOT longer ). Attorney General Greg Stumbo indicted Governor Ernie Fletcher and just about everyone that worked for Fletcher in any shape or capacity. As soon as the indictments were released, every [...]

Tags: ernie-fletcher, governor, greg-stumbo, kentucky, steve-beshears, US Regional Politics

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An explosion in an eastern Kentucky coal mine killed five miners Saturday, Gov. Ernie Fletcher said. A sixth miner was able to walk away from the blast and out of the mine on his own…
“This tragedy only compounds what has already been a horrific year in America’s coal mines,” Roberts said in a statement.
Earlier this [...]

Tags: coal, death, Energy Policy, ernie-fletcher, kentucky, mine, nuclear-energy, ted-kennedy

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