Tag Archives: Gov. Beshear

Kentucky Agriculture Gets Stimulus Boost

Gov. Steve Beshear announced yesterday $850,000 in socialist Federal funding to help Kentucky’s farmers become more energy efficient. Coordinated by the Governor’s Office of Agricultural Policy, the funding marks a substantial step toward greening-up the Commonwealth’s rural economies; so says the press release: The energy stimulus incentive program will provide 25 percent reimbursement of the actual cost of [...]

Beshear’s Car Talk

Plans are underway to construct a lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant/energy research institute in Central Kentucky thanks to a partnership between UK, U of L, and The Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The plans — largely spearheaded by Gov. Beshear — involve construction of a facility that would aid the nation’s ailing automakers in the research [...]

Breaking Bread With Beshear

File under: Totally wish I could’ve been there. Earlier this morning our steadfast Governor held a prayer/breakfast at the Frankfort Convention Center (rumor has it the planned monster truck rally was canceled due to it possibly jibing with the event’s intended solemnity). According to the AP (via the C-J), Beshear spoke to a crowd of [...]