I've been getting this question a lot:
"Does anyone know what happens if some of the Ford plants have workers who pass the contract, while others reject it? Will it be honored only on a plant-by-plant basis, or does it have to be company-wide?"
And here's the answer after I consulted with' [...]
The view outside of the Ford/UAW contract modifications has focused on two concessions,
1) the salary freeze of entry level workers and
2) that UAW members would not be able to strike over the amount of improvements to their wages and benefits. In other words UAW members would be allowed [...]
Republican Trey Grayson has been far busier on the rubber chicken circuit than the media circuit thus far in his U.S. Senate run, but his campaign's new website offers the best definition yet of his priorities and how the primary campaign could develop.
Grayson's campaign sent [...]
In one of his strongest floor speeches to date against the Democrats' health care reform plans, Senator Mitch McConnell came out swinging Wednesday. Now that Democrat Senator Harry Reid is forging ahead with the "public option" in the Senate, McConnell will be busy doing what he does best,' [...]
A combat veteran and Lt. Col. in the Kentucky National Guard is now setting his sights on the 3rd District Congressional seat held by Democrat John Yarmuth since 2007.
Republican Todd Lally is also a UPS pilot who has appeared on coverage of the Thunder Over Louisville air [...]
Rand Paul supporters have turned the cameras on an opposition research tracker, presumably from the Trey Grayson campaign, who was videotaping Paul flipping pancakes at a charity breakfast.
Watch the YouTube video here.
The tracker remains stonefaced and concentrates on his own video camera as a Paul supporter attempts to interview [...]
Days after Democrat Governor Steve Beshear dismissed Republicans' proposed constitutional amendments on expanding gaming as "cynical" politics, Beshear appointed a Republican Senator to a judgeship, thereby removing him from the Senate, and potentially weakening the GOP Senate majority.
CNHI News Service's Ronnie Ellis offers an unvarnished view of the political' [...]
WHAS11 News has learned that Arizona Senator John McCain, the Republican Presidential candidate in 2008, will come to Louisville on Veterans Day, November 11, for the opening of the Mitch McConnell archives at the University of Louisville's Ekstrom Library.
Virtue of McCain losing the presidential race, [...]
From the Associated Press....
University of Kentucky basketball icon Richie Farmer is considering running for governor on the Republican ticket.
Farmer told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he has been in discussions about a possible run and may do some political polling in the near future.
[...]
U.S. Rep. Baron Hill may still face a Congressional fight against Republicans Todd Young or Mike Sodrel in 2010, but Eric Bradner with the Evansville Courier & Press says the Seymour Democrat is stoking rumors that he may run for Governor in 2012 by accepting "an invitation to speak" [...]
Calling Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul, "The Kentucky Positive for Online Gambling," gambling911.com sees Paul as a friend in a Bluegrass state that has been hostile to Internet wagering websites.
He's the son of Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul, a strong ally for legalized Web gambling.
While Rand [...]
The campaign finance reports of Kentucky's U.S. Senate candidates reveal that Democrat Jack Conway and Republican Trey Grayson are the chosen candidates of some heavy hitters within their respective national parties.
As reported in
CQ Politics:
Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson's taped interview with WYMT-TV in Hazard aired Monday night with Grayson touting his experience and "track record."
The interview had already stirred a mini-controversy when Grayson said that opponent Rand Paul was "not a Kentuckian."
As a YouTube audio recording echoed across the Bluegrass earlier this month, Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo explained that he missed a scheduled appearance with Governor Steve Beshear because of difficulties returning from a campaign fundraiser in Chicago.
But, Mongiardo's campaign is now criticizing the Jack Conway campaign for the amount of [...]
As expected Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear appointed Republican Senator Dan Kelly to a Central Kentucky judgeship today, simultaneously calling a special election for December 1 for both Kelly's seat and an open House seat.
As we've mentioned in previous blog posts, it's the third special' [...]
"We're not here to to cram anything down anybody's throat."
That's not Ford Motor talking, but the International President of the United Auto Workers, Ron Gettelfinger, in a one-on-one interview
before he addressed Local 862 members about contract modifications waiting for a ratification vote.
Changes include a wage freeze' [...]
Louisville Metro Councilman and Democratic mayoral candidate Jim King and his ex-wife, Rebecca King have asked a Jefferson County Family Court Judge to seal divorce papers to keep "intensely private matters" from being made public.
The Louisville Courier-Journal's Joe Gerth reports:
In the first case, filed in 1981 and dropped [...]It's a question of risk.
The Centers for Disease Control and American Academy of Pediatrics have for years recommended that thimerosal be removed from all childhood vaccines "as soon as possible." Yet, the mercury-based preservative is still used in most seasonal and H1N1 vaccines.
So, what's worse, the risk of the [...]
I just spoke a few minutes ago with leaders of United Auto Workers Local 862, who acknowledge they are nervous whether local union members will approve of several revisions to the existing contract with Ford.
UAW International President Ron Gettelfinger, who once led the UAW here, will be in Louisville at [...]
The campaign for Jim Bunning's U.S. Senate seat has been one bizarre chapter after another, starting with "One tough S*O*B" at Fancy Farm, then "I don't need this job, f*** it," on YouTube, and now "He's not a Kentuckian."
After Sec. of State Trey Grayson told WYMT-TV in Hazard that' [...]
The pieces continue to fall into place, whether by design or incredible coincidence, for Democrats to wrest control of the Kentucky Senate away from Republicans.
As reported by Tom Loftus in the Courier-Journal, Republican Sen. Dan Kelly was [...]
We've heard the Abraham Lincoln quote a lot as America marks the 200th anniversary of his Kentucky birth.
"I too, am a Kentuckian," the Republican patron saint is quoted as saying as he promised not to abandon his principles.
Now, Kentucky's Republican primary for U.S. Senate is heating up with [...]
Democratic Governor Steve Beshear is poised to appoint another Republican to a coveted position?
Expanded gaming opponent and Republican David Williams is behind the effort to let Kentuckians vote on a constitutional amendment to allow expanded gambling in the Commonwealth? Isn't that a campaign pledge of the Democratic Governor?
What in the' [...]
When is the last time you heard of jobs being shipped into the United States?
According to a Bloomberg report, Ford will shift the manufacturing of its Kuga compact SUV from Saarlouis, Germany to the Louisville Assemblly Plant in October, 2011.
As WHAS11 News first reported in July, Ford plans [...]
Somewhat buried in the tit-for-tat news releases from the Mongiardo and Conway campaigns on Wednesday was an allegation by Conway's spokesman that Mongiardo lied about why he missed a scheduled appearance with Gov. Steve Beshear in the days following the YouTube release of an audiotape purportedly of Mongiardo bashing Beshear.
"It" [...]
Someday the U.S. Senate campaign will turn to the candidates' stand on the issues. Until then, the campaign managers of both the Jack Conway and Daniel Mongiardo campaigns have been in full spin mode for months about other stuff.
Based on quotes in news releases Wednesday, imagine a debate between Mark' [...]
Kentucky's unemployment rate dropped from 11.2% to 10.9% last month, but a state analyst says that decline is deceiving.
The chief labor market analyst of the Office of Employment and Training says a .3% drop in Kentucky's unemployment rate does not reflect more jobs, but people who have been unemployed for [...]
The Mongiardo Senate campaign says it will decide in the next few days "whether to file a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission and call for a thorough investigation into possible illegal conduct by Attorney General Jack Conway's campaign."
That's after the Conway campaign did not deny that it [...]
Facing questions about how his libertarian brand of Republicanism jibes with socially conservative Republicans, Senate candidate Rand Paul issued a statement today supporting today's Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity in schools, and "pledges to do everything in his power as a United States Senator to end abortion."
But when the National [...]
After Courier-Journal columnist Joe Gerth questioned whether Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul's libertarian-leaning views would be a "tough sell" to socially conservative Republicans, the Paul campaign issued the following response:
"This morning, columnist Joe Gerth said Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul needed to reconcile his positions on social issues with" [...]
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In the latest salvo between prominent Republicans Bill Farish and Senate President David Williams, Lanes End Farm GM Bill Farish says Williams is playing politics with expanded gaming at Kentucky racetracks to drive the social conservative vote.
Farish says "the word around Frankfort is" [...]
Now that Norton Healthcare and Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield have agreed to a new three year contract after an ugly dispute that affected some 300,000 people in Kentuckiana, Kentucky House Speaker Pro Tem Larry Clark says he will continue to pursue legislation that aims to prevent policy [...]
Now that Medicare has lifted its ban on insurance companies telling senior citizens how
proposed health care reform legislation would affect their Medicare coverage, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is not about to let the issue drop.
That's not a surprise, as the "gag order" involved three factors of great [...]
The Daniel Mongiardo Senate campaign says their analysis of a YouTube video attacking Mongiardo proves that the Jack Conway Senate campaign is somehow involved in the "dirty tricks."
In a presentation to several reporters Monday, spokesman Kim Geveden said:
"the evidence we have gathered and prove to you that Attorney General Jack" [...]
In the Sunday Louisville Courier-Journal, the newspaper's former political columnist Al Cross revealed that Attorney General Jack Conway loaned his own campaign more than $100,000 in third quarter fundraising. (Cross is now the director of
the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of [...]
Rand Paul says he has 14,000 donors, most of them online. And at least one loyal supporter is taking his support online, in the form of a website that gives the false impression
that it is sponsored by rival Republican Trey Grayson, but proceeds to trash Grayson while touting [...]
The mayoral term limit proposal floated by Democratic Metro Councilman Brent Ackerson is gaining momentum. KY State Rep. Steve Riggs of Louisville wants the Jefferson County delegation and Mayor Jerry Abramson to discuss the idea, but says eventually it should be up to the citizens of Louisville Metro to decide.
Here's' [...]
Conway: Our campaign has raised $2 million, doubling our opponent's money.
Mongiardo: (We have) significantly reduced Conway's cash advantage from a 3:1 advantage after the 2nd quarter to 2:1 at the end of the 3rd quarter.
Conway: We are still the only campaign that can [...]
It's exactly what Mitch McConnell said he would do. On the campaign trail one year ago, the Senate Minority Leader was blunt and bragadocious talking about bringing home the bacon to the Commonwealth:
"Under the Constitution, every Senator has one vote, but I assure you every Senator is not equal," [...]I just got off the phone with Jack Conway's campaign manager, Mark Riddle, who says that it appears someone has tried to hack into the campaign's Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Click here for the pdf file supplied by the Conway campaign
Mark Riddle says a staff member who monitors the [...]
The third quarter fundraising results are in from the four major U.S. Senate candidates in Kentucky. Rand Paul is the third quarter champion, but its a long way from the May primary.
According to the campaigns, here are the money standings:
1)
Rand Paul (R)
$1,010,668 in the third quarter,
$1,121,693 [...]
Who is the favorite in the Kentucky GOP primary for Jim Bunning's U.S. Senate seat?
Candidate A raised $1,010,668 in the third quarter, and Candidate B raised $642,857.
While Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson has been considered the Republican establishment pick for the nomination (Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and 22 [...]
As WHAS11 reported Wednesday, because the Louisville Zoo suspended train rides after a train derailment on June 1, the zoo has not had the benefit of train ride revenue, roughly $400,000 per year.
Still no word on the estimated cost from lawsuits, settlements or increased insurance premiums emanating from derailment [...]
Late Wednesday night, the campaign of Republican Senate hopeful Rand Paul released its Federal Election Commission report for third quarter fundraising, confirming more than $1 million in three months.
Now, Kentucky pols are anxiously awaiting fellow Republican Secretary of State Trey Grayson's third quarter numbers, because the Grayson campaign [...]
One of AOL's top stories Tuesday night? Louisville's "racy" Possibility City television ads that promote Louisville to young professionals and would-be vacationers.
Metro Councilman Doug Hawkins has criticized the ads, which include references to "tattooed butts" and parody ads for erectile-dysfunction drugs, as crossing the [...]
Watch my update on the Mongiardo tapes and the YouTube era of Kentucky politics here.
The Daniel Mongiardo U.S. Senate campaign says it's narrowing down the list of possible suspects responsible for posting audio clips of Mongiardo criticizing Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear.
While they don't' [...]
Before his scheduled appearance on the WHAS11 News at Noon, Attorney General Jack Conway spoke with me on a range of issues: identity theft, a special prosecutor for the Jim King/Katie King campaign contributions, the price-gouging lawsuit against Marathon/Ashland, the YouTube attack videos against rival [...]
Two and a half hours after Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo's campaign announced its best fundraising quarter, the campaign of Attorney General Jack Conway rained on Mongiardo's parade, saying it did even better.
Mongiardo: "I am humbled by the outpouring of support from the thousands of people all across this Commonwealth."
Conway campaign: [...]
For whatever reason, October has yielded a bumper crop of e-mails. I have spent the last few days weeding through about 1,000 in my inbox. And, I almost missed this one, which links President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize to severe winter weather.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Presidential Nobel [...]
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway shares a common bond with Eleanor Jordon and Virginia Woodward. All three Louisville Democrats came up short in their respective bids for the Third Congressional District seat. Conway lost to Anne Northup in 2002. But, Jordan (lost to Northup in 2000) and Woodward (primary loss [...]
What is Mitch McConnell's view of expanded gaming at Kentucky racetracks? Don't ask.
Appearing at the opening of a University of Louisville medical research building, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked whether he has misgivings about the way the Republican leadership has handled' [...]
As blogged about last week, it appears the Louisville mayor's race will be quite expensive, with two candidates, Jim King and Greg Fischer each already reporting more than $200,000 raised in campaign contributions.
When filing last week's blog, I had only received a news release from Fischer's campaign. Since [...]
This is what campaigns are all about, pointing out the differences between candidates and campaigns. Recent endorsements in Kentucky's U.S. Senate race are stark.
In accepting a campaign donation from the of the National Right to Work Committee PAC, the Rand Paul campaign said the "NRTWC supports candidates best suited to" [...]
I have admittedly devoted little attention to Republican Todd Young's candidacy for Democrat Baron Hill's seat in Congress. With Hill getting all kinds of attention for playing basketball with President Obama (The White House team reportedly took four out of five games over the Congressional [...]
The "Czar Accountability and Reform Act of 2009" hits on conservatives' concerns that the Obama administration is circumventing the Senate's "advise and consent" role on Presidential appointments by naming the "czars."
The New York Times updated the controversy this week.
Kentucky Congressman Brett Guthrie is a co-sponsor, saying "Czars should be'" [...]
Jay Blanton, the former University of Kentucky spokeperson who has been running interference for Gov. Steve Beshear, is moving to the top communications job at Keeneland.
The Governor's office is reorganizing the office, with Policy Director Katie Allison Dailinger now supervising the state's communications, but with current spokeswoman Jill Midkiff [...]
As reported by Joe Gerth in the Louisville Courier-Journal, the first quarter of fundraising in the Louisville mayor's race shows an expensive campaign ahead, with two Democrats, Jim King and Greg Fischer each raising more than $200,000. (A news release from Fischer is below).
A check of the online database [...]
Here are the four different spins on the Rasmussen poll of Kentucky's U.S. Senate race, from the four main candidates.
Daniel Mongiardo
"The Rasmussen poll varies widely from two recent independent polls that show Daniel Mongiardo as the strongest Democrat against Republicans Trey Grayson or Rand Paul. No matter how you slice" [...]
A new Rasmussen Reports poll of Kentucky's U.S. Senate race shows both Republicans Trey Grayson and Rand Paul besting Democrat Dan Mongiardo in the general election.
Democrat Jack Conway, however, is deadlocked with Grayson in the general election poll, and holds a 4 percentage point lead over Rand Paul.
The poll [...]
In July, Kentucky's Health & Family Services Secretary Janie Miller told WHAS11 News that a smoking cessation program for Medicaid recipients is a great idea, but no funding is available.
Now, a bigger and stronger coalition of health care advocates is pushing Governor Steve Beshear to [...]
Before a ribbon cutting and speech at MedEx12, a Louisville health care information technology company, Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo addressed the controversy surrounding sound bites of him criticizing Governor Steve Beshear.
Watch the raw video of the interview and Mongiardo's speech here.
In the interview, although [...]
Late Show host David Letterman says he was the victim of an extortion attempt after he engaged in sexual affairs with several female staff members.
"This morning, I did something I've never done in my life. I had to go downtown and testify before a grand jury," Letterman said' [...]
The Rand Paul Senate campaign is beating its collective chest after raising $1 million in the third quarter of 2009. While other campaigns may take a while to release 3rd quarter reports, the Paul campaign routinely posts its day to day totals.
"The good news is we raised $55,000 the last" [...]
A quick update after a second audio production featuring the purported voice of Dan Mongiardo criticizing Steve Beshear was released Wednesday.
While the release of the first tape might be chalked up to a prank, this second production makes it clear that this is an orchestrated attempt to harm Daniel [...]
A loyal reader of the WHAS11 Political Blog sent me this e-mail Tuesday, positing that the Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo audio tape that bashes Governor Steve Beshear is the result of illegal eavesdropping. Kentucky is a "single party consent" state, meaning that if either Mongiardo or someone else party to [...]
The liberal group, Americans United for Change unveiled a new television ad Tuesday running on cable TV in Louisville and two other markets. The commercial is aimed at Louisville-based Humana and Republican Congressional leaders who rushed to the insurance company's defense last week when Humana came under fire for a [...]
It is a political firestorm on so many levels.
If the tape is legit, who is secretly recording Dan Mongiardo and releasing damaging comments on YouTube?
If the tape misrepresents Mongiardo, the question still remains who is behind it?
Regardless of the tape's legitimacy, it raises the public question of the working relationship' [...]
After former First Lady Laura Bush spoke at the "Get Motivated" seminar at Freedom Hall on Tuesday, she made her way to the Glenview home of Irv and Cathy Bailey for a luncheon with local influential supporters of her husband.
Cathy Bailey is a prolific Republican fundraiser who served as [...]
It's not the first time the question has been asked of Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels. Though he shrugs off the query from The Wall Street Journal's Kimberly A. Strassel, Daniels is firmly in his element with the financial newspaper's interviewer.
"There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being" [...]
"I have zero loyalties for him, zero."
The voice sounds like Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo's, and in comments to
the Lexington Herald Leader's Jack Brammer, a Mongiardo Senate campaign spokesman does not deny that it is, in fact, Mongiardo who was taped predicting that Beshear's administration is doomed' [...]
Here is the totality of the e-mail from a Norton Healthcare representative on the presumed progress in the contract stalemate with Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield:
"Norton and Anthem met today (third full day of negotiations). Negotiations are expected to resume later this week."
The fact that the companies have stopped [...]
"... when these reports come out, they're reviewed by the press, pundits, both political parties and our opponents, who will judge the strength of our campaign based in part on our fundraising success." --- Trey Grayson
KY Secretary of State Trey Grayson's U.S. Senate campaign has been very quiet since Fancy' [...]
In Louisville, the attention on the "Get Motivated" Seminar at Freedom Hall on Tuesday
has focused mainly on embattled Louisville Cardinal Men's Basketball Coach Rick Pitino's
planned speech, despite revelations emanating from an alleged extortion plot against him.
But, another big name in Louisville Tuesday will require Secret Service protection [...]
With little of the national angst that accompanied the installation of permanent lights at Chicago's Wrigley Field, an even more legendary national sports venue will install permanent lights for the first time in its history, when Louisville's Churchill Downs makes the move in time for the 2010 Spring Meet.
In a [...]
The co-founder of the news and commentary website, thevillevoice.com, has now moved to a new web address.
In his first post on the LouisvilleMojo.com website, Rick Redding, the former Business First and LEO writer says "3,197 posts later, I have decided to move on to something bigger, and better."
Redding co-owned [...]
Kentucky Senate President David L. Williams is firing back at Bill Farish, the Lane's End Farm G-M and expanded gaming proponent. In an op-ed last week, Farish - a former George W. Bush aide from a prominent Republican family - blasted [...]
Still waiting to hear how much campaign cash Secretary of State Trey Grayson reeled in from a $500 per head D.C. fundraiser Wednesday night. 23 GOP Senators, including Kentucky's Mitch McConnell were scheduled to "host" [...]
Looks like both sides have enough motivation to try to reach a deal.
Here's the joint release from both Anthem and Norton:
Officials representing Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Kentucky and Norton Healthcare met for several hours today. The meeting included Anthem president and general manager Deb Moessner and [...]
Just heard that after a marathon eight hours of negotiations, Anthem and Norton will release a joint statement tonight. Stay tuned..
[...]The goodwill of Kentuckiana, through the WHAS Crusade for Children, has funded medical equipment at Kosair Children's Hospital for generations. The dispute between Kosair's parent, Norton Healthcare, and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield threatens to disrupt the care Kosair provides to the kids who need it most.
The stalemate has [...]
Governor Steve Beshear's office is not yet interjecting itself into the stalemate between Norton Healthcare and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Spokesman Jay Blanton says the state prefers that the two corporations settle the dispute themselves, but Blanton stressed that the Governor expects Norton and Anthem to "act like" [...]
Click here for Anthem President Deborah Moessner's letter to Norton President Stephen Williams:
9-22_letter_to_Steve_Williams[1].pdf
Click here for Norton's response to the Anthem proposal:
09-22-09_Williams_ltr_to_Moessner[1].txt
And here is the other letter released by Anthem on Tuesday:
Dear Valued Anthem Customers and Brokers:
I am writing to give you an update on the contract dispute [...]
A summary of the Norton/Anthem dispute follows. If you have any questions about the dispute, post them here and I will do what I can to get them answered.
Summary and developments
Executives with Norton Healthcare and Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield will meet on Wednesday, September 23, in [...]
Sen. Williams seems less concerned about helping our industry, and more concerned about maintaining control over his Senate fiefdom.
You can't get more Republican than Kentucky's Farish family, the heirs of the Standard Oil fortune. Will Farish served as ambassador to the United Kingdom during the first term of the' [...]
As reported in Politico last week, the National Republican Senatorial Committee's "handpicking" of electable candidates has riled some grassroots Republicans who would rather each state's primary decide the best candidate, and not the national party.
Rand Paul supporter Ryan Sheets of Louisville is organizing another internet driven "moneybomb" on September [...]
The candidates for U.S. Senate already know a number of endorsements they have secured, yet maximize the endorsements' effect by rolling them out one at a time.
It does not minimize the importance of any endorsement, but offers oppotunities to keep the campaign visible.
The latest is the Daniel' [...]
Something tells me the Federal Bureau of Investigation would frown upon an agent leaving his guns, body armor and FBI equipment outside in a car overnight. But that's apparantly what happened in Indianapolis. The FBI is offering a reward in the search for a 10 mm [...]
Keep those tips and political commentaries coming. My reporting and anchoring assignments this past week have made it difficult to keep the blog updated as frequently as I wish. Have a guest editorial you want to post here? Send it my way. For now, here come a random series of [...]
One of my favorite podcasts is ESPN's Fantasy Focus with Matthew Berry, who infamously proclaims that he is "anti-cancer." Now, Rand Paul is challenging other Senate candidates to see if they stand up to the "anti-cancer" test.
Here is a news release from the campaign:
Dr. Rand Paul challenged his Democratic [...]
As Andrew Wolfson reports in the Courier-Journal, a preliminary report from the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance finds that Metro Council member Jim King, "violated campaign-finance laws last year when he gave his daughter (Katie King) $145,000 during her election campaign for District Court," and "there is reason to" [...]
Ford Motor Company has confirmed that a new 7-seat European minivan, the
C-MAX, will arrive in North America beginning late 2011. Ford is not revealing where it will be manufactured. The automaker is beginning to reveal which vehicles it is choosing as "global C-cars." Until [...]
Troy Riggs, Chief Robert White's right hand man on Louisville Metro Police, has been selected as
the new police chief in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Riggs has been a key architect of the Louisville Metro Police charm offensive after a series of controversial police shootings' [...]
By my estimation (purely anecdotal), Rand Paul is second only to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell among Kentucky politicians getting national press.
McConnell is the highest ranking Republican in the country. Paul is a Bowling Green ophthamologist (who also happens to be the son of a cult [...]
Hal Heiner is giving up his Metro Council seat in an attempt to become Louisville's first Republican mayor in decades. The 19th District council member will launch his campaign at the Tumbleweed Restaurant on River Road (an attempt to get the Louisville skyline behind him [...]
It's official, former lawmaker and gubernatorial hopeful Steve Nunn is charged with the murder of his ex-fiance.
Here is the news release from Lexington Police:
On Friday, September 11, 2009 at approximately 06:30 a.m., the Division of Police responded to 541 West Short Street, Lexington, KY in reference [...]
I am up way too late after anchoring the Sunday night news. Late enough to start perusing the Monday papers.
The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza writes about Congressman Ron Paul's money machine. While the Texas Congressman's runs for president have been unsuccesful, his fundraising model might have the largest [...]
Governor Steve Beshear, and First Lady Jane Beshear received flu shots on Thursday from Lt. Governor Daniel Mongiardo.
Here's the release from the Governor's office:
Governor Beshear, First Lady receive flu shots from Lt. Governor Daniel Mongiardo
Governor and Mrs. Beshear encourage Kentuckians to get influenza vaccinations
FRANKFORT, [...]
Nothing earth-shattering in The Hill's take on the Kentucky U.S. Senate race, in which Reid Wilson gives an overview of the bitterness of the campaign so far and how both candidates are invoking the name of former U.S. Senator Wendell Ford, whose retirement left the [...]
It's common for Kentucky's Attorney General to join with the Attorneys General of other states, acting in concert on certain issues, (i.e. Kentucky's recent settlements with Pfizer and Dish Network), but a move made by Attorney General Jack Conway and 30 other Attorneys General across the [...]
UPDATED: With better photo. The grainy photo was screen grabbed from a day that our DVR had some bugs.
And then there were four. Louisville businessman and 8664 co-founder Tyler Allen is the fourth Democrat who will run for Louisville mayor. Allen tells [...]
