Kentucky’s public university presidents say they’d like to see the state’s U.S. senators help overhaul the country’s immigration system. [WDRB] The University of Louisville is considering offering buyouts to longtime faculty and staff in an effort to save $2.5 million as the state’s financial support dwindles. [C-J/AKN] There’s all kinds of important stuff to cover [...]

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Metrosafe dispatchers tell WDRB News that a child was found with a BB gun on a JCPS school bus Thursday afternoon. That should make you feel extra-safe. [WDRB] There’s a push in Frankfort to go even further in preventing grocery stores from selling wine and liquor. But when you look at the money that’s been [...]

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You’ll want to read this email sent by Greg Fischer’s head of LMEMS to all employees: From: Richmond, Dr. Neal Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 3:46 PM To: EMS-Everyone DL Subject: Openly-carried firearms Everyone, Recently, I received e-mails from a few of you asking whether or not it is now permissible to openly carry firearms [...]

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If you haven’t read the Toni Konz piece from last night, you need to. It’s all about the school board trying to cover its ass like woah. Some excerpts: By now, you have probably read the statement/response that the Jefferson County Board of Education sent on Friday in response to Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday’s [...]

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Anyone have a favorite web developer/graphic designer? Send them our way. Hiring folks for a new project. [Jake] Kentucky lawmakers are hotly debating whether to legalize industrial hemp. But do Kentucky farmers think hemp could help grow profits? [WDRB] If John David Dyche really wanted people to care about him getting cut at A Kentucky [...]

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If a Louisville lawmaker has her way, anyone arrested for a serious crime in Kentucky could be swabbed for their DNA. But what some are calling a crime-fighting tool, others are calling an invasion of privacy. [WDRB] Republican State Senators are proving just how corrupt and ridiculous they are. Julie Denton deserves a solid slap [...]

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Is it finally going to happen? The Kentucky side of the Big Four Bridge is set to open on Thursday morning. [WDRB] If you missed it earlier this morning, a progressive group is hitting Mitch McConnell on guns with a new television ad campaign. [Page One] New information is slated to be released this week [...]

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Metro Government is making strides toward sustainability. Anyone who has loosely paid attention knows that, despite the cheering of sustainability efforts, those strides will mean little unless pension dollars are put to work in sustainable ways. Most major pension plants are part of the Council of Institutional Investors – a moderate group that eyes long-term [...]

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Ruh ro! John Yarmuth says no one is coming for yer guns: HIDE YER GUNS!!! He’s gonna take yer guns!!!1!

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Really: Life begins at conception, according to the Catholic Church, but in a wrongful death suit in Colorado, a Catholic health care company has argued just the opposite. A fetus is not legally a person until it is born, the hospital’s lawyers have claimed in its defense. And now it may be up to the [...]

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