Thursday, August 07, 2008

Vanity alert in McCain and Obama-land

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Just realized I got quoted in the Washington Post today in a story about Sen. John McCain's campaign using " AstroTurf ". &quo...

Hurry up those Kentucky tax cuts

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Rumors continue to swirl about Gov. Steve Beshear calling a special session after the November election to raise Kentucky taxes. This will b...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Just a question

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On Saturday, October 25, nearly 60,000 southerners will congregate in Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky to watch the Arkansas Razo...

Who do you think you're fooling, Skippy?

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Governor Steve Beshear's effort to keep hiding the state's checkbook from taxpayers took an odd twist tonight involving Finance and ...

David Boswell wants to be Moveon.org's boy

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Sen. David Boswell is desperate to get out of the state Senate this year so he can maximize his state pension. He even tried to run for gove...

Draud still spinning, media still buying it

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Education Commissioner Jon Draud told The Louisville Courier Journal's Toni Konz that he isn't going to ask for a raise six months ...

Tax reform for working Kentuckians

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Rep. Bill Farmer is working on a bill to repeal all Kentucky income taxes. It isn't what they are trying to do in Massachusetts , but wo...

Hurricane Grayson: Beshear ducks and covers

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Gov. Steve Beshear already embarrassed himself trying to get out in front of Secretary of State Trey Grayson's spending transparency ini...
Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Education watchdog hopeful for real reform

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Could a Frankfort task force actually do something positive for someone other than the politicians? Richard Innes, the Bluegrass Institute&#...

This time they have really gone too far

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A check of internal personnel records at the Fayette County Detention Center shows that jail employee Rashel Coatney, who was roughed up by ...

Enjoy your gas price increase holiday, Ben

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While Rep. Ben Chandler rests up from his hard charge to the left in Washington D.C., House Republicans are making a loud statement for en...
Monday, August 04, 2008

Get off the pot, Governor Beshear

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Did I mention that Gov. Steve Beshear is "studying" the idea of improving Kentucky's disastrous scholastic assessment program ...

What kind of conservative are you?

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The Madison County Republican party is hosting an interesting event Thursday, August 7th at 7:00 pm. They are calling it a "Community F...

What are you trying to say, Governor?

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Somehow I missed the press release on this one, but someone might want to ask Gov. Steve Beshear about the single largest corporate giveaway...
Sunday, August 03, 2008

Playing by "big government rules"

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We're looking at a big battle in 2009 over health insurance reform. The "Harry and Louise" ads from 2004 helped save us from H...

Political imaginations running wild

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Some people try to counter the fact that outspoken people like Dan Rather and Katie Couric dominate a mainstream media with a bias toward a ...
Saturday, August 02, 2008

Another Kentucky education bombshell

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Kentucky's faked high school drop-out rates missed another one. When the Kentucky Department of Education figured out that the American ...

Road trip!

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Headed off for my first Fancy Farm. I have the technology to report from there and expect to do so. Please check back. Here's one rumor ...

Problems reading blogs this morning?

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For some reason, Site Meter is causing a bunch of blogs to not be readable in Internet Explorer. The fix appears to be simply to remove Site...
Friday, August 01, 2008

Do you give a hoot about the McCain campaign?

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I just got a call from Paul Farhi, a Washington Post reporter, who is writing a story about Sen. John McCain's online outreach program. ...

Changing the world one YouTube at a time

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I got off the airplane in Washington D.C. Wednesday morning and rushed over to the Americans for Tax Reform office for a couple of meetings....

Giving the welfare state one more chance to work

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Sen. Barack Obama is proposing to raise taxes on oil companies to fund a $1000 "energy rebate." The energy rebate will spur deman...

You want something to be afraid of?

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Be afraid of this .

One more thing about the economy

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Louisville blogger Jake Payne raises some key points in his missive about the economy yesterday: First, the "Republican meme" is ...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Bill Clinton promises a night to remember

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Couldn't resist showing this email I just got from the Hillary Clinton isn't running for President (until 2012) campaign:

Spend less, spend better, have more

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Keeping anyone from a family, business, or government afloat in tough budget times involves managing fixed and variable revenue streams and ...

Bad news for nation of whiners

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The Great Depression of 2008 not only has not materialized, but we aren't even in a recession. I bring this up to point out that the peo...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Mayor Newberry, sell the cars and save the kid

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Sources with the City of Lexington report Mayor Jim "fire them if their kids get cancer" Newberry is still waffling about whether ...

Making racism a taxable event

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I know there are still a few people in Kentucky who really hate people based on the color of their skin. This isn't for them. This is fo...

Reality TV bailout coming up next!

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Just saw this from Associated Press : LAKE CITY, Ga. - More than 1,800 people showed up to help ABC's "Extreme Makeover" team ...
Monday, July 28, 2008

Ready for another tax scam?

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It is almost time for Frankfort politicians to start talking up a back-to-school sales tax holiday just in time for free publicity in advanc...

It's the government involvement, Gov. Beshear

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Just saw this from a recent gubernatorial trip to Somerset: “We need to start emphasizing preventative health care and wellness,” (Governor...

Which liar lied last, Stumbo or Beshear?

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Here's a great passage deep in Ryan Alessi's Monday column : "Last week, Beshear said he would stay out of House leadership rac...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Greg Stumbo whines his way to prosperity

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Ryan Alessi picked up Saturday on a 2005 law I may have mentioned once or twice . Great job getting this quote from Representative/former ...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Jefferson County GOP picnic Friday

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Congressman John Yarmuth's campaign got video of his opponent Anne Northup Friday night saying that her "secret weapon" on the...

Just a thought about Rashel Coatney

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If Lexington taxpayers weren't paying for their detention center administrators to drive around in taxpayer-provided cars, they could pr...

Just say no to the horsing bailout

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I get that any business or trade association would want to have some kind of political connection to offer resistance when the government go...

Barack Obama's economic plan at work

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A Chicago blogger has seen Obama Magic at work on the mean streets of the Windy City. Check it out .

Just the way it goes

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I'm off to cover what will either be a really neat exclusive story or a complete nothing I can't talk about. Either way, I'll be...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Still can't keep a good idea down

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Back in late May , hackers caused the Bluegrass Institute site to be taken down several days for repairs. Well, it has happened again. The B...

Corporate welfare weakens America

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I'm reading a very interesting book about how out-of-control fringe benefits wrecked Detroit automakers over the last half a century, d...

State Medicaid transparency, what a concept!

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South Carolina continues to kick our butts on Governor-driven state spending transparency. Their latest victory is in posting Medicaid spend...

Need video conferencing Thursday

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Just when I thought I was almost completely off the gasoline-consuming grid, I have to drive around to meetings today. That doesn't mean...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

"Newberry's judge" has to go

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The plaintiffs in the Lexington illegal welfare benefits case will ask that Judge Jennifer Coffman recuse herself from the case because of ...

Barry can't do math

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Do you really like Sen. Barack Obama's tax proposals and economic ideas? This will help:

Lexington jail defendants duck and cover

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The defendants in the Lexington jail prisoner abuse scandal are attempting this morning to give up their right to a speedy trial in order ...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Why can't it be "press one for freedom?"

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Just took a call from James "Jim" Wells of Lexington. He said he wanted to talk to me about something. Said he had just called in ...

Beshear makes move to behead Draud

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Gov. Steve Beshear's first action after his election last November was to try to get rid of Education Commissioner Jon Draud. Looks like...

It's the stupid out-of-control spending

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Congress is getting ready to misspend another billion dollars of your money: "The federal government doesn’t need to spend more money ...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Landmark lawsuit rocks sanctuary city

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Americans who value our freedoms are genuinely proud to see people from around the world risk everything they have to come here for the oppo...
Saturday, July 19, 2008

Al and me in Austin

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Al Gore is across town talking to Netroots Nation. Americans for Prosperity has a hilarious Al Gore video:

Why not just spend less on stupid stuff?

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From the Associated Press : "Among other revenue-raising possibilities, the commission recommended gradually increasing the current fed...
Friday, July 18, 2008

Live blogging Americans for Prosperity

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I'm at the Americans for Prosperity conference in Austin, Texas. Robert Novak is the keynote speaker. I'll cover his remarks on the ...

Few hail the hero's return

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A couple of years ago, Ben Chandler's campaign consultant Mark Nickolas caught lightning in a bottle when he started a blog called Blueg...

Will Jim Ramsey get a pass?

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Louisville Business First looks pretty silly congratulating University of Louisville President Jim Ramsey for not taking a $113,000 bonus e...

Another scalp so soon?

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There are unconfirmed reports this morning Fayette jail Assistant Director of Operations Jim Kammer is being forced to retire at the end of ...
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Bad numbers in Whitley county

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The Corbin News Journal reports today that the Whitley County School Board "voted to provide a free breakfast for all students." ...

Aim for their heads, Jim Bunning

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Sen. Jim Bunning did a quick interview with Larry Kudlow about how our Republican administration is screwing us fiscally .
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Gonna get another scalp soon

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With Fayette County Detention Center schemer Don Leach forced out this week , we turn our attention to which domino falls next. Some say Ji...

Getting McCain right on education reform

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Sen. John McCain was in Cincinnati this morning talking up school choice. That's a good thing, says the Cato Institute , as long as he d...

Four minutes of smaller government whoopass

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Just as Massachusetts is asking for another $100 million for their socialized medicine program, the people who are pushing to repeal their ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Hillary Clinton STILL not dead?

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They are switching superdelegates away from Barack Obama. And my favorite quote from a Fox News interview ( linked here ) with a Hillary su...

Replacing Ernesto

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Lots of behind-the scenes action on the Republican side in the effort to keep Rep. Kathy Stein out of the state Senate. From the Lexington C...

Will there be another study group?

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Talk radio host Leland Conway made Gov. Steve Beshear say this morning he would consider a plan to eliminate Kentucky's income tax. Rep...

Beshear sets up a website without a study group

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Gov. Steve Beshear announced today an interactive website to allow state employees to arrange carpool rides to work. Apparently he did this...

One down

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Under intense pressure for his role in multiple scandals at the Fayette County Detention Center, Don Leach is resigning August 1. He leaves...

Cutting off Medicaid's nose to spite KY's face

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The Lexington Herald Leader takes a swipe at the drug problem this morning by suggesting we burden our drowning Medicaid entitlement with pa...
Monday, July 14, 2008

Compared to what?

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I would love for anyone to explain to me why Lexington taxpayers wouldn't be better off selling their public golf courses. The fact that...

Four days from the truth

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Last Thursday, Gov. Steve Beshear's budget office admitted that state revenue was up for the fiscal year ending in June. I still haven&...

Lex jail head circles wagons, shoots "wounded"

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As a criminal trial with an August 18 start date threatens to shine unwanted light on his own checkered past, Fayette County Detention Cent...
Saturday, July 12, 2008

Is Hillary still not dead yet?

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Sure would like to hear what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have to say about this .

FDIC: a stupid idea that should die now

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Some people are trying to blame yesterday's failure for IndyMac bank on Sen. Chuck Schumer and some are jumping on Sen. John McCain , b...

Fayette jail defendant should have talked to dad

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Lieutenant Kristine Lafoe, the only female defendant so far in USA v McQueen et al, the Fayette jail inmate abuse scandal , had good reason ...

GOP Online Platform Committee open for you

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I just found this . Check it out and report back, please.
Friday, July 11, 2008

Gutsy move in Massachusetts

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I've watched with mild curiosity a movement to get state income tax repeal on the ballot this November in Massachusetts. But now I'm...

"You can't handle the evidence!"

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A motion in US District Court in Lexington over the Fayette jail inmate abuse scandal defendants' request to view sealed evidence has b...

MSM wakes up to Kentucky pension issue

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A good article in Business Lexington this morning addresses important issues about the state's public employee fringe benefits disaster...
Thursday, July 10, 2008

Whiners and crybabies and economic growth

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If the people who are ready to kill Phil Gramm would stop hyperventilating long enough to hear what he actually said, a lot of them would ag...

KY Libertarian Chair: better if Obama wins

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Kentucky's Libertarian Party Chairman's message for Republicans who aren't happy with Sen. John McCain as their presidential nom...

Hillary Clinton won't go away

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Sen. Hillary Clinton is selling t-shirts for $50 on the internet to pay off her campaign debt (to herself.) She even says near the bottom of...
Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Rumors and more

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Got a copy of a goofy Fayette County Detention Center internal email. Here, see for yourself (click to read): As funny as it is to see them ...

More Fayette jail cover-up craziness

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As Mayor of Lexington, Teresa Isaac said and did some pretty strange things. But even after hearing her threaten to condemn Lexington Mall a...

Forget Japan; send Beshear to California

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Enticing businesses to move from California to Kentucky may not be such a hard sell if a massive $9.7 billion tax increase goes through in ...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Coveting North Carolina's partisan rancor

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North Carolina has a Democratic governor and Democratic majorities in its House and Senate. And unlike Kentucky, it has Republicans in both ...

Is the state lottery era almost over?

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Anyone who made it past third grade math understands that buying a state lottery ticket is little more than a quick way to pay taxes. So it ...

How about another price fixing scheme?

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From the same people who caused your food prices to explode while trying to lower your gasoline prices, we now have expressions of concern ...
Monday, July 07, 2008

Big week coming up for Fayette jail defendants

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Attorneys for the five indicted Fayette jail employees in the inmate abuse scandal will be back in US District Court Friday trying to get t...

Doing something about gas prices

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A new bill pre-filed today will allow people to drive electric cars on some Kentucky roads. If you go to KentuckyVotes.org and sign up for...

Big government rally in Edgewood

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Smoking ban fans will have a party to discuss infringing on private property rights Wednesday at 6pm .

Still spending too much in Kentucky

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Kentucky's end of the year revenue figures due out later this week are expected to show cash inflows have continued upward, outpaced onl...
Saturday, July 05, 2008

WLEX spiked damaging Newberry, Isaac story

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Lexington's NBC television affiliate WLEX-18 is sitting on a story about Mayor Jim Newberry and former Mayor Teresa Isaac repeatedly att...

Let's prove David Williams right on this one

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State and local officials in Kentucky are still claiming pension reform in the end of June special session will improve or even eliminate t...
Friday, July 04, 2008

Stu Silberman, school choice poster boy

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With all the talk in Frankfort the last few years about making school districts set up policies to deal with bullying (a bullying bill was ...
Thursday, July 03, 2008

Have you seen this?

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Out with the old, in with the really old

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Here goes Gov. Steve Beshear with another one of his bold leadership things . "Governor Beshear has abolished the Kentucky Horse Racing...

Steve needs a hurricane

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Gov. Steve Beshear rages about gas prices in Louisville, but what he really needs is a hurricane. Hurricane Katrina allowed Gov. Ernie Fletc...
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Louisville gas prices making Beshear sick

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My YouTube account is more than ready for Gov. Steve Beshear to have his Jimmy Swaggart moment over gas prices in Louisville.

LFUCG doesn't want you to read this

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Fayette jail whistleblower Cpl. John Vest said the following under oath in his multi-million dollar civil suit against the city of Lexingt...
Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Seven billion dollars buys a lot of misery

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The state of Kentucky started the new fiscal year Tuesday with $7,016,000,000 in bonded debt. As a percentage of our economy , that's mo...

Happy 401-k Day!

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Now that we have finished the worst June for stock market investors since June 1930, today is exactly the wrong time to be getting down on t...