Monday, June 30, 2008

Big Easy beats sleazy, Kentucky not so lucky

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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal struck a blow for the good guys today when he vetoed an effort to pass an enormous pay raise for legislators af...

Teresa Isaac stepped in it worse than Newberry

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In sworn testimony, former Lexington Mayor Teresa Isaac contradicted herself on a key element of her story that has allowed her to claim con...

Kentucky's failed gas price strategy drags on

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Kentucky's first-in-the-nation price-gouging lawsuit against Marathon Oil filed by then-Attorney General Greg Stumbo should go to trial ...
Sunday, June 29, 2008

Road to hell paved with Ohio's intentions

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Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear could take one of two lessons from a Wall Street Journal op-ed over the weekend about how things are going in Oh...
Saturday, June 28, 2008

Steve Beshear, color in Obama's blank slate

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Some people who are excited about Sen. Barack Obama have developed a tendency to project their pet issues onto his presidential campaign pla...

Hillary Clinton pops the question

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Politicians of both parties have dragged out Ronald Reagan's quote about being better off than you were four years ago many times and th...
Friday, June 27, 2008

Jim, are going let her talk about you like this?

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Former Lexington Mayor Teresa Isaac may have dumped the Fayette Detention Center prisoner abuse scandal in current Mayor Jim Newberry's...

An autopsy on Frankfort's special session

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The obvious point of contention in what remains of the HB 1 debate is Speaker Jody Richards' statement that their handiwork "will ...

Killing Kentucky business on the installment plan

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Some of the noise coming out of Frankfort today will sound pretty self-congratulatory over their handling of public employee fringe benefits...

Hey, look what you decided to do!

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Lexington has its share of problems now, but what would things be like if you were forced to cough up the money for "Great Ideas" ...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Lexington payroll snafu is latest screw-up

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The ongoing computer problems in the Lexington Fayette County Urban Government have now resulted in the city missing payroll payments to emp...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Give the money back, Mayor Jim Newberry

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News coverage and commentary about the current pension discussion in Frankfort has been pretty lousy, but the idea that city newspapers are ...

Nothing going on here, move on (and go broke!)

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I appreciate that the mainstream media wants to better serve its readers through the blogosphere, but this (and this and this ) is not the...

A brief discussion on new media

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I will be a guest on the Leland Conway radio show (630 AM or wlap.com ) at 9:15 this morning discussing coverage of the Fayette County jail....
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

It's another isolated incident at FCDC

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A few funny things about the Lexington Herald Leader's report late Tuesday about the exposed drug ring at the Fayette County Detention C...

Circling wagons, covering tracks in Lexington

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Lexington Commissioner of Public Safety Tim Bennett had separate closed-door meetings today with Fayette County Detention Center Director R...

Deny this, Governor Steve Beshear

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If Gov. Steve Beshear has no plans to call a special session to pass tax increases after the November elections, he should quickly and publi...

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the bloggers"

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Captain Darin Kelly at the Fayette County Detention Center just told me that he won't give me any information about what is going on at...

Will the last officer at the jail turn off the lights?

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4:30 Update : Houlihan has resigned. Taxpayers are off the hook for this one. As I write this, though, none of the five indicted officers , ...
Monday, June 23, 2008

Looks like one more successful initiative, maybe

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The Bluegrass Institute's government spending transparency initiative seems to have really gotten the attention of Governor Steve Beshe...