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 [...]
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 [...]
October 8, 2009 – 5:24 pm
Attention idiots: Turn on your computer monitor if you cannot read this question asked by Meghan McCain’s website:
Which metropolis has the most intelligent residents? The Daily Beast crunched the data on the brainpower of America’s 55 largest cities, from first-to-worst. How did your hometown rank?
Collective brainpower. More than sports prowess or political leanings or wealth [...]
October 6, 2009 – 3:45 pm
In last week’s LEO, I wrote about grassroots efforts to end felon disenfranchisement in Kentucky. One of my sources for that story, the activist/organizer Kate Miller, mentioned a study critical of the following politically expedient notion: If Republicans restore voting rights for former felons, then those former felons will go out and vote Democrat, unleashing [...]
October 6, 2009 – 12:14 pm
Apparently some people still need closure on this, the death of President Michael Jackson::
WTVQ-TV in Lexington reports that Owingsville First Church of God Pastor Lowell Rice heard about the mural at his church. Rice approached the school officials to complain about the mural, questioning whether Jackson is an “appropriate role model.”
[Visual arts teacher Lorraine] Leadingham [...]
