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Beshear rolls out new wave of TV ads

July 18, 2011 – 11:13 am

One week after a Republican Governors Association front group went on the air in Kentucky with ads depicting our economy as a nightmare and David Williams as its solution, today sees Steve Beshear countering with two ads touting himself as Mr. Jobs Jobs Jobs. Via cn|2, here they are: The first ad includes Jerry Abramson’s [...]

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Galbraith smacks Beshear and Williams, gins up fundraising drive

May 27, 2011 – 10:27 am

(Well, not literally smacks; however, the first rule of Fancy Farm is, uh …) Those of you unfamiliar with “perennial Kentucky political candidate” Gatewood Galbraith would be wise to watch the following interview wherein Galbraith — who is running as an independent candidate in this year’s Barn Burnin’ Electoral Hootenanny gubernatorial election against incumbent Democratic Governor [...]

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“FACES of Coal” infests EPA hearing

May 11, 2011 – 4:45 pm

Pro-mountaintop removal mining front-group FACES of Coal was in Washington, D.C., today to do what they do best: Lie their pants off! May 11 – Washington, D.C.– Today the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment conducted a second day of hearings on the EPA’s regulatory guidance on surface mining and the economic impacts of EPA’s [...]

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Beshear urges Florida governor to save anti-’pill mill’ system

February 22, 2011 – 11:10 am

Believing a monitoring system could help clog up the illegal prescription drug pipeline between Kentucky and Florida, Gov. Steve Beshear sent a letter to Florida Gov. Rick Scott that asks him to reconsider a decision to cancel a state drug-monitoring program. “I implore you to reconsider your decision, and implement this life-saving program,” Beshear wrote. [...]

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In defense of Kentucky mountains

February 21, 2011 – 9:12 am

A few days after hundreds of protestors marched on the state capitol and camped out at Gov. Steve Beshear’s capitol office in a demonstration against mountaintop removal, members of Congress passed a spending bill that significantly weakens the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate the mining practice. The legislation cuts $61 billion from the federal [...]

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Frankfort sit-in continues for fourth day

February 14, 2011 – 10:46 am

The Kentucky Rising protesters are still at it today (aka I ♥ Mountains Day), having remained in Gov. Steve Beshear’s office over the weekend after bum rushing him on Friday in an effort to end mountaintop removal mining in Kentucky. From a press release: FRANKFORT – Fourteen protesters, including internationally-known writer Wendell Berry, remain in [...]

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“I’m about to pull an Egypt,” anti-MTR protester tells Mother Jones

February 11, 2011 – 2:32 pm

Led by Kentucky author and poet Wendell Berry, a group of environmentalists opposed to mountain top removal have staged a sit-in in Frankfort that has gained a bit of national attention. From Mother Jones: The fight over MTR has been heating up at the national level since last month, when the Environmental Protection Agency vetoed a [...]

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UPDATED: Anti-MTR Kentuckians stage Frankfort sit-in, force meeting with Gov. Beshear despite possibility of arrest

February 11, 2011 – 10:37 am

What will Gov. Steve Beshear do? Sick the KSP on Wendell Berry? UPDATE: Although he’s not pulling a Mubarak, Gov. Steve Beshear has dropped his oh-so-busy schedule to meet with Kentucky Rising protesters who want him to end mountaintop removal mining in Kentucky. “We can surface mine in a responsible way,” the governor told the [...]

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More Louisville job loss woes

February 3, 2011 – 10:58 am

The Associated Press reports that Kentuckiana — that mythical combination of Louisville and Southern Indiana — ranks ninth out of 372 U.S. metropolitan areas for most jobs lost in 2010. The Louisville area, including Southern Indiana, lost 7,500 jobs during the year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed, putting it ninth from the bottom [...]

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Beshear ditches governor’s debate because he was “busy being governor.”

January 21, 2011 – 10:59 am

Just ignore the competition, refer voters to your weak-sauce website and hump the Chinese yuan: These silly debates will take care of themselves. Although the debate just ended, peep this from The Bowling Green Daily News (bold emphasis mine): Republican gubernatorial candidates David Williams and Phil Moffett, as well as independent Gatewood Galbraith, will participate [...]

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