November 5, 2009 – 12:01 pm
What we audit do: The Metro Council’s Government Accountability Committee unanimously approved the “open books” ordinance, a city bill sponsored by Councilman Jim King, D-10, and Kelly Downard, R-16, which would force companies receiving city tax dollars to make their expenditures public. The measure was drafted in response to the refusal by The Cordish [...]
October 29, 2009 – 12:02 pm
Not o-KACo: State Auditor Crit Luallen released a scathing special examination of the Kentucky Association of Counties (KACo) today, which found a “self-serving” culture that resulted in more than $3 million in excessive or questionable spending over a three-year period. Among Luallen’s blistering findings, it was uncovered that nearly $2 million was charged on agency [...]
October 26, 2009 – 9:47 am
Bright news for the commonwealth came this morning when it was announced that State Auditor Crit Luallen has been named a 2009 “Public Official of the Year” by Washington D.C.-based magazine Governing for her positive impact on state government. The profile focuses on Luallen’s long-standing career as well as being “Frankfort’s Fiscal Enforcer” in the [...]
October 20, 2009 – 12:01 pm
Mud bath: Kentucky Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo’s U.S. Senate campaign is accusing Attorney General Jack Conway of being somehow involved in the infamous “Mongiardo Tapes”, which are posted all over the Internet. In both recordings Mongiardo can be heard cursing and criticizing Gov. Steve Beshear, at one point saying that being Beshear’s lieutenant governor is [...]
October 16, 2009 – 1:20 pm
The bizarre story and media circus surrounding the 6-year-old “balloon boy” only gets weirder. The rumors have already begun swirling that the entire drama might have been a hoax orchestrated by the boy’s publicity hungry dad. Those speculations weren’t helped by the family’s convenient reality-TV moment that aired this morning on the Today Show, where [...]
October 15, 2009 – 12:01 pm
Cut list: Despite the optimistic economic forecast nationally, Mayor Jerry Abramson says the first quarter is not looking good and more cuts to the budget are likely. After last year’s slash and burn, we are wondering what might be on this year’s cut list and whether the mayor spoke too soon when he canceled the [...]
October 15, 2009 – 11:25 am
Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson raised $642,857 for his U.S. Senate campaign in the year’s third quarter, according to a campaign press release. The Republican U.S. Senate candidate filed his finance report today with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and has raised a total of $1,245,992 to date with more than $1 million on [...]
October 14, 2009 – 2:50 pm
The lame controversy over the latest Possibility City ad campaign that is being peddled by the humorless Louisville Metro Councilman Doug Hawkins, R-25, who called the ads “poor taste,” has gone national. In a voicemail message that he left after our interview, the south Louisville Republican highlighted that Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly jumped on [...]
October 14, 2009 – 1:00 pm
In an attempt to inspire new leadership and fresh ideas in the race for mayor, Metro Councilman Brent Ackerson, D-26, said he plans to introduce a resolution before the council that would encourage the Kentucky General Assembly to amend Louisville’s merger law and set shorter mayoral term limits. The freshman councilman’s idea has sparked a [...]
October 14, 2009 – 12:39 pm
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul has a viral video featuring a Kentucky version of the Obama Girl.
From Bluegrass Bulletin:
Well folks, here it is, the “Rand Song” video from Wendy Macy. I don’t know, but we might just have a new “Gene Snyder” jingle in the making:
The Bowling Green ophthalmologist, who is the son of [...]
