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Kentucky: A Dark and bloody (and dumb, and depressed, and bored, and…) ground

March 9, 2011 – 6:51 pm

Don’t forget fat. Or stupid. Or cancer-laden. Or incarcerated. Or stricken with Mountain Dew-mouth. Or, uh … did we say fat already? We meant obese. Yeah: Obese. Any way you cut it, the great (?) commonwealth of Kentucky exhibits tell-tale signs of being seriously fucked-up, staggering in the nation like a toothless, morbidly obese friend who pisses [...]

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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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Notes from the Jefferson County GOP’s Lincoln Day Dinner (UPDATE)

February 14, 2011 – 4:43 pm

Despite LEO Weekly’s last appearance at the Jefferson County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner being something of a bust, we decided that we’d brave it once more in the interest of parroting the speeches of rich white people to ye, the sweaty huddled Internet-having masses. And what did we find? About 350 state GOP foot [...]

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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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Low-income no excuse for JCPS, says academic panel

February 9, 2011 – 12:40 pm

In the midst of a robust debate about the future of Jefferson County Public Schools, the leader of a non-partisan education advocacy group says Louisville’s public education system cannot blame extreme poverty and racial diversity for its failing schools. In an editorial published by Insider Louisville, Cindy Heine, interim director of the Prichard Committee for [...]

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2010: Year of the meth

February 8, 2011 – 4:18 pm

According to a press release from the Kentucky State Police, 2010 was a boom year for meth heads, with 1,080 labs discovered statewide (the most ever), with Jefferson County taking the lead at 154 labs strong. (FRANKFORT, Ky.) – Kentucky State Police (KSP) released the 2010 methamphetamine lab statistics today and the number indicates an [...]

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Bill to restore felon voting rights passes committee

February 8, 2011 – 3:53 pm

For the fifth straight year, a House committee has approved legislation that would give convicted felons who serve their time and complete probation the right to vote. The bill was sponsored by state Rep. Jesse Crenshaw, D-Lexington, and would put the issue before voters as a constitutional amendment on the next statewide general election. Those [...]

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Independents’ Day?

February 3, 2011 – 4:52 pm

Could the tyrannical, Julian “BLAAGHGRGHAGHHH!” Carroll-endorsed two-party reign of closed Kentucky primaries be a thing of the past? According to Bluegrass Politics, quite possibly. FRANKFORT – Registered independents would be allowed to vote in a party’s primary election under a bill the Senate State and Local Government approved Wednesday. Senate Bill 41, sponsored by Sen. Jimmy [...]

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Tuskegee Airmen exhibit coming to Ali Center

February 3, 2011 – 2:42 pm

For Black History Month, the Tuskegee Airmen and their many connections with Kentucky will be the focus of a special exhibit at the Muhammad Ali Center that will be on display throughout February. “We encourage everyone who can to visit the center to see this and other exhibits,” says Ken Lucas, commissioner of the Kentucky [...]

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U.S. of Shame

January 31, 2011 – 9:35 am

We regularly post statistics showing Kentucky near the bottom of some unsavory list, but the comedic blog Pleated Jeans proves that every state ranks dead last in at least one category. The map shows that whether its suicides in Alaska, unemployment in Michigan or ugliness in North Dakota, every place needs improvement. The worst thing [...]

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