November 20, 2009 – 4:19 pm
Remember that Northpoint prison riot back in August that was supposedly caused by bad prison-food? And how people were talking about those damn inmates and how nicely they’re treated? A new report released by the Department of Corrections says that rationale is bullshit, for that matter, and that measures taken by the warden played a [...]
November 13, 2009 – 2:27 pm
From November 22nd through the 25th, a delegation of Moroccan educators will undertake a tour of the Commonwealth, starting here in Louisville, then on to Frankfort, Newport and ultimately Hodgenville, site of Abraham Lincoln’s virgin birth. Under the auspices of an “international civic education collaboration,” delegates from the African nation will be meet with lawmakers, [...]
November 11, 2009 – 6:52 pm
Oh Jesus: it’s really come down to this, hasn’t it? I mean, it’s one thing to be named the most perverted city in the country, quite another to be labeled as one of the dumbest, too… but telling us that we are among the saddest bastards in this nation? Pass the shotgun shells, please, and [...]
November 10, 2009 – 5:22 pm
Recently, we informed you that WLKY ran a story about how Louisville is the number-one city in these United States for dirtiest internet keyword searches: Because this information is useful. Now we are proud to report that we’ve managed to dodge another auspicious title, this time being the county with the second-most reported swine flu [...]
November 5, 2009 – 6:25 pm
Kentucky may become the new home of a Harley-Davidson manufacturing plant. According to The Courier-Journal, the flailing chopper-maker is considering relocating a 2,500 employee Pennsylvania facility to the greener, cheaper pastures of the Commonwealth.
Like many manufacturers, Harley-Davidson is consolidating in the wake of declining sales and is exploring how to cut costs with its largest [...]
November 4, 2009 – 5:12 pm
A little over a week ago, the University of Kentucky and Alliance Coal announced plans to name a new men’s basketball dormitory after a dirty, planet- and culture-killing fossil fuel known as “coal,” sparking campus protests that have elicited virtually no response from the university’s board of trustees and its figurehead, UK President Lee Todd, despite [...]
October 29, 2009 – 12:59 pm
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 a [...]
October 23, 2009 – 1:58 pm
Yesterday in Frankfort, independent gubernatorial candidate Gatewood Galbraith made a funny:
[Galbraith] told members of the United Mine Workers of America that people suggested 30 years ago that he was 30 years ahead of his time, then drew laughs when he added: “Here we are.” [AP, via WLKY]
Haw! Sources also tell us that the tireless libertarian gave a [...]
October 19, 2009 – 2:10 pm
According to The Courier-Journal, Kentucky’s newly minted “infrastructure authority” — whose primary task will be oversight of the $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridges Project, which was designed by monkeys in the late 20th century — will hold its first public hearing this Thursday in Room 106 of the shiny Kentucky Transportation Cabinet building in downtown [...]
October 14, 2009 – 4:53 pm
So State Senator Damon Thayer, R-17, wrote an editorial in the Georgetown News-Graphic expressing exasperation over why some people believe that Kentucky’s current system of felon voter rights restoration is outmoded and inefficient. Yet his argument — that the system is fine as it is — is rife with enough oversimplifications and inaccuracies to warrant [...]
