Tag Archives: Gov. Steve Beshear

KY: Fighting Mountain Dew Mouth, Tooth For Tooth

October 14, 2009 – 3:29 pm

Fun Fact: Kentucky ranks 2nd in the nation for loss of natural teeth — a fact attributable to our less-than-exemplary access to proper dental services, which is itself a reflection of historic poverty, under-education, disdain of “elitist” doctors and/or a fondness for chewing tobacco. Call us old-fashioned!
That is precisely why Gov. Steve Beshear’s announcement of a cutely acronymed initiative called Access for Babies [...]

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Rasmussen: Beshear’s Approval at 59% (& Other KY Horse Race Numbers)

October 5, 2009 – 5:18 pm

Lots of super-interesting numbers from Rasmussen out today, chief among them our governor’s rock steady 59-percent approval rating, which has been the lauded subject of an upbeat KDP communique “making the rounds.”
Kentuckians see that Governor Beshear makes decisions based upon what is in the best interest of Kentuckians, not what is politically expedient.  Our Governor [...]

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Gettin’ Drunky in Kentucky

August 25, 2009 – 1:03 pm

Gov. Steve Beshear has declared September to be “Bourbon Heritage Month” in the Commonwealth. What does this mean? A lot of things, actually. Aside from recycling one of Sen. Jim Bunning’s old ideas, it brings to the forefront one of the things this state does and does well: Distilling fermented corn-mash into an amber nectar [...]

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Bridge On The River Duh

August 17, 2009 – 6:04 pm

Kentucky BFF’s Jerry Abramson and Steve Beshear (Louisville mayor and Kentucky state governor, respectively) have released their picks for a five-person board of negotiators charged with the task of destroying downtown Louisville for the next several decades and taking southern Indiana along for the ride. I’m talking, of course, about the Ohio River Bridges Project, [...]

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Gov. Grants Grants for Ice Storm Damage

July 16, 2009 – 11:12 am

While many of the Commonwealth’s beleaguered, cash-strapped counties wait on FEMA to reimburse them for their ice storm-related expenditures, Gov. Beshear and something called the Department for Local Government (DLG) have decided to beat them to the punch — if only to help ‘em out just a little bit.
Last month Gov. Beshear announced that he [...]

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Money For Nothing, Debris For Free

July 7, 2009 – 11:40 am

Remember when it was cold outside? And the trees were bent into submission from all the goddamn ice that turned our fair riverside burg into a picture-perfect winter warzone? And how, after the fact, it left in its thawing wake a hundred-billion pounds of limbs, roots and totaled Volvos that took months and months to [...]

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Another One Tweets The Dust

May 15, 2009 – 1:36 pm

Yes friends: Another young, hip democrat is utilizing The Twitter in Kentucky who isn‘t Jack Conway. Can you guess who it is? (Hint: Mongiardo isn’t young; external forces just make him appear that way. Also, the picture after the jump kind of gives it away) …

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Beshear Uses Webcam

March 13, 2009 – 3:34 pm

Next step: Reality!

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