Corporate python Massey Energy has filed suit against the latest sign-wielding human to bring its destructive mountaintop removal mining practices to a halt. From the AP, reporting in Morgantown, West Virginia:
Massey did not immediately comment on its cases Wednesday, but court filings suggest the protesters are having a measurable, if minor, impact on the bottom [...]
For years, we’ve enjoyed the benefits of cheap spirits, cheaper smokes, and the health rates to claim bragging rights. Come Wednesday, however, and the twin-engines of Kentucky’s vice economy suffer their latest shocks in the form of a much ballyhooed tax hike.
And ballyhooed is right: Surly cigar store merchants are fucking furious! How dare they [...]
In what has to be a landmark victory for Big Burgoo and their legions of Frankfort lobbyists, the Kentucky House of Tards Representatives has approved legislation that makes burgoo the official dish of the Commonwealth.
It’s the sign of a healthy democracy when, at this late of an hour in the 2009 general assembly, our elected [...]
Earlier today the Kentucky House passed HB 228, which would, if passed in the Senate, make it illegal for anyone in the state of Kentucky to be anywhere near the substance known as salvia divinorum, aka “diviner’s sage” (or, as the ancient Mazatec shamans whom cultivated it for religious purposes called it, “Really, really good [...]
Seems like miners just can’t catch a break in this state.
House Bill 119 is currently under the purvew of the General Assembly, and while the non-threatening designation 119 might fool you, if enacted it would reduce the number of emergency medical technicians from its current requirement (2) down to one EMT per 18-miner shift.
Earlier today, [...]
FRANKFORT, KY - At first glance, Greg Capillo appears to be anything but a “lobbyist” - that dreaded, loathsome word whose connotations with corruption, waste, and criminal activity have been cemented in our national consciousness by Jack Abramoff, a perpetually spited Congress, and (more recently) the memes of a righteous Presidential campaign pledging to end [...]
Page One posted portions of an interview today with Attorney General Jack Conway, in which the AG (and Aaron Eckhardt doppleganger) talked about the major issues facing the commonwealth and, of course, his intentions w/r/t the U.S. Senate in 2010. Here’s the juice:
Conway also said that Democrats, “need to keep their options open, keep their [...]