Pro-tip to the charter schools folks: Having these Metro Council people write a letter in support of your group of religious extremists and teabaggers is not exactly a positive thing. These folks: Jon Ackerson, Stuart Benson, Cheri Bryant-Hamilton, Kelly Downard, Robin Engel, Ken Fleming, Bob Henderson, Dan Johnson, Kevin Kramer, Jerry Miller, Barbara Shanklin & [...]

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Greg Fischer is still pushing this aging care industry lobbyist mantra. Where the hell does he find the time to write all this and promote it on Facebook and Twitter? [Click the Clicky] Kentucky musician Ben Sollee was featured on CNN. Check this video out. It’ll autoplay. [CNN] Here’s Greg Fischer discussing the five finalists [...]

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The Kentucky Retirement Systems and Greg Fischer’s very own Tommy Elliott have some serious problems on their hands. Check out this massive CYA acid trip. [Page One] Greg Fischer will announce just how large the city’s deficit is today. Massive cuts will take place. Meanwhile, he’s still hiring friends at $100,000 a pop and doling [...]

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Why is it, exactly, that Jim Ramsey never, ever has to answer for people repeatedly stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars on his watch? When this happens at other schools, the buck stops with the individual at the top and they take ultimate responsibility. He’s yet to do so. Ever. For any reason. [C-J/AKN] Will [...]

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Here’s John Yarmuth recognizing the Fairness Campaign’s 20th year:

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A study ranks the Louisville area high for use of deficient bridges. This is where you yell, “No shiz, Sherlock!” [C-J/AKN] Kentucky unveiled 19 additional low-achieving schools and five of them are in Jefferson County. [WFPL] The community is beginning to weigh in on the controversial University of Louisville Hospital merger. [FOX41] Guess we really [...]

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Yesterday marked the 141st day Republican Party of Kentucky Chairman Steve Robertson has questioned Jack Conway over his involvement in his brother’s drug scandal: “The Conways just seem to keep stepping in it over and over,” said Robertson. “Yesterday we learned that Matt Conway helped expunge a felony from a convicted criminal’s record — the [...]

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Remember a few years ago when the Fairness Campaign wouldn’t do anything to help Todd Eklof when Kentucky Farm Bureau fired him for not hating the gays? Because they were afraid of not be allowed entry to the State Fair? Haha, well… here we are several years later, Eklof has resolved everything on his own [...]

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This is the most ridiculous shiz I’ve ever heard. A law firm saying that inbreeding skews data linking mountaintop removal to birth defects. Worse than Bob Farmer. It’s enough to make us hope every mouth-breather in Appalachia succumbs to Darwin’s theory. Jesus. [WFPL] Yesterday marked the 69th day of Jack Conway’s refusal to deal with [...]

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Remember when your momma told you not to say anything if you couldn’t find something nice to say? Yeah, we’ll try really hard not to roll our eyes over that parental farce. We’ll believe the Fairness Campaign is “working hard to implement a statewide anti-discrimination fairness law” when they bother trying to work with Republicans [...]

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