Tag Archives: Frankfort

Yum! lobbies Frankfort so you can buy a Double Down with food stamps

April 5, 2011 – 12:06 pm

Welcome to America! A glorious land where we defund Meals on Wheels programs in order to replace them with government subsidized buckets of greasy fried chicken: FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Louisville-based fast food giant Yum! Brands Inc. is lobbying the Beshear administration to make Kentucky one of only a handful of states that allow food [...]

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Rep. Wayne introduces tax reform bill into the wilds of Frankfort…

February 3, 2011 – 2:13 pm

… where it will most likely be poached by a Greg Stumbo/chicken hawk hybrid, which will descend onto the select committee, talons extended, and tear House Bill 318 into ribbons. At any rate, you have to commend Rep. Jim Wayne, D-Louisville, for trying. From The Courier-Journal: “We have a tremendously unjust system,” Wayne, D-Louisville, said [...]

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Rally to stop Williams’ draconian “immigration” bill set for Saturday

January 7, 2011 – 11:37 am

For those of you who don’t know who or what a “David Williams” is,  or about the virulently anti-Hispanic legislation he wants to push through Frankfort’s Senate (along with the help of virtually every other worthless legislator in that building save a handful of the good ones), consider the following: (1) Williams is running for [...]

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ORBP Gear-grinding in Frankfort’s Taj Mahal

August 5, 2010 – 2:30 pm

Of the many examples of fine architecture in historic downtown Frankfort, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet building sticks out like a sore thumb designed by a drunken, potentially syphilitic Frank Gehry. At 200 Mero Street rises a hideous postmodern jumble of boxy glass edges and incongruous surfaces, and judging from a haphazard Google Maps analysis, the [...]

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Commonwealth Axes Judicial Jobs

April 30, 2010 – 12:51 pm

The Kentucky judicial branch is bleeding to death, according to The Lexington-Herald Leader: Kentucky courts will ax 113 positions during the coming months to help make up an expected $6.8 million shortfall for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The job reduction is the largest layoff in the court’s history and follows a smaller [...]

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Beshear ‘disgusted’ with General Assembly

April 15, 2010 – 7:47 pm

The legislative session has adjourned without a budget and with leaders from both chambers blaming each other for the failure to reach an agreement. For the past few weeks House Democrats and Senate Republicans have been deadlocked on the roughly $17 billion state spending plan, which is the one piece of legislation that state lawmakers [...]

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Rep. Wayne On Kentucky’s Impending (Never-ending?) Fiscal Doom

March 31, 2010 – 1:39 pm

Yesterday, the citizens of this fair but imploding commonwealth learned that the biggest task in the charge of our state legislators — namely, crafting a budget — would take precedence over normal Capitol proceedings because they cannot agree on how best to pretend solving the problem; the regular session was delayed, most lawmakers got a [...]

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Zombie ‘Ultrasound Bill’ Needs Bullet to Brain

March 18, 2010 – 4:45 pm

If you’re familiar with zombies — and I know you are, Louisville — then you’re probably aware that the first rule in dispatching an undead denizen is the application of a well-aimed gunshot to their cerebral cortex. Although scientists are still unsure as to what neurological phenomena necessitates this rule, it’s an unquestioned fact of [...]

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“Amanda’s Bill” Watered Down, Frankfort-style

March 12, 2010 – 12:44 pm

Rarely does The Lexington Herald-Leader’s editorial board pen something worth reading. However, today’s installment of Conventional Wisdom For Dummies actually manages to hit the nail on the head; concerning the failure of the Kentucky legislature to produce an anti-domestic violence package worth passing, The H-L is on point: Chairman Tom Jensen and the Senate Judiciary [...]

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Fairness on the March

February 25, 2010 – 1:39 pm

Regarding the fairness rally held in Frankfort yesterday, here’s a short blurb courtesy of The Lexington Herald-Leader, a newspaper which apparently still exists: Sponsored by the Kentucky Fairness Alliance, the rally filled the rotunda and featured speeches from two officials with the state Commission on Human Rights and several state lawmakers. The Rev. Albert Pennybaker, [...]

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