Category Archives: economy

Easy Rider

November 5, 2009 – 6:25 pm

Kentucky may become the new home of a Harley-Davidson manufacturing plant. According to The Courier-Journal, the flailing chopper-maker is considering relocating a 2,500 employee Pennsylvania facility to the greener, cheaper pastures of the Commonwealth.
Like many manufacturers, Harley-Davidson is consolidating in the wake of declining sales and is exploring how to cut costs with its largest [...]

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Lunchbox: Militias on the loose

November 2, 2009 – 12:10 pm

Militias?!?!: Oh god. Chris Kenning’s wonderful story in Sunday’s CJ about the uptick in Kentucky militias — a reaction to the crap-ass economy and the election of President Obama — left us unsettled and a little afraid, with echoes of Waco playing in our heads. Read it.
Dog days continue: In last week’s print issue we [...]

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Lunchbox: Death battle over between life enhancers

October 19, 2009 – 12:25 pm

Feeling healthy again?: A super-bitchy major health care provider and its super-bitchy nemesis insurer have finally agreed to disagree. With the end of the Norton-Anthem dispute — in which services between the two were halted July 1, after Norton demanded double-digit increases in reimbursements and Anthem said no — comes reinstatement of patients’ full, hard-earned [...]

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The Bailout: A Dramatization

September 29, 2009 – 2:57 pm

Those wonks over at The Nation have rendered our government’s ongoing corporate welfare scheme, known colloquially as “Carpetbaggers 2: The Return,” in terms that the average Kentuckian can understand. (sorry: No explosions or tits!) Although their allegory, which personifies the failing financial institutions in the fictitious guise of “Joe & Katie Hazzard,” is at times [...]

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Grim Unemployment News Actually Much Grimmer, If You Think About It

July 24, 2009 – 3:10 pm

Yesterday the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet (KEWDC) released some typically bleak data regarding the Commonwealth’s unemployment levels that, while legitimately bleak, don’t even come close to painting the actual, “face-of-death bleak” picture that is more in tune with reality.

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Dr. Obamastein’s Monster: “Ungh, Ergh, Health Care!”

July 20, 2009 – 2:45 pm

Quick! Stop it before it throws a little girl into a well! Seriously, we could spend plenty of time discussing how the TARP money was spent prior to Obama’s coup of the White House, or how Franklin Roosevelt spent more money than God and fixed an economy that was broken by Wall Street the first [...]

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KY Green Economy Leaves Wallet, Returns to Party Briefly

July 14, 2009 – 5:05 pm

Every day now, it seems, more money is being given to Kentuckians for the purposes of, uh, making us less dumb and not as poor. So it should come as no surprise, then, that the Red House has awarded nearly $4.1 million in Energy Star-rated appliance rebates. In theory, this means that if you’ve finally [...]

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White House Touts Energy Efficiency Initiatives

July 10, 2009 – 3:51 pm

Although the following examples will be labeled by conservatives as a series of rapes further perpetrated upon the corpse of Ronald Reagan the American Taxpayer, Premier Obama’s dastardly gang of tree-hugging Trotskyites have taken to highlighting the results of their tiny stimulus bill — most likely in an effort to show Sean Hannity he knows [...]

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KY Green Economy Says “Hi,” Leaves Party Early

July 9, 2009 – 4:52 pm

According to a new report released by the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies, 8,750 new jobs and $1.7 billion dollars in economic activity can be generated in central and eastern Kentucky via those sustainable “green-economy” alternative-energy jobs Your President is always babbling about. However, the Eastern Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) holds dominion over this 87-county [...]

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Apocalypse Rears Ugly Head (Again)

June 18, 2009 – 5:12 pm

Remember when we all thought we were going to get swine flu, lose our jobs and turn into vegan communists after B-Rock got elected? Well, that middle part is the only myth that just won’t die. Here’s a hat trick (and then some) of economic terror… just in case you thought little Timmy Geithner was [...]

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