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A matter of graft

July 15, 2010 – 11:11 am

For all intents and purposes, Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo is a political whore. The funny part is that, in a C-J story that all but tells you that your lieutenant governor is a political whore, their headline is woefully inadequate: “Dan Mongiardo says endorsement of U.S. Senate candidate Jack Conway a matter of trust.” Really? [...]

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79-Percent of Americans Reject Dumb Reagan $50 Bill Idea

April 27, 2010 – 3:14 pm

Since most of LEO’s readership is either (1) too young or (2) too high to remember America’s 40th president, the news that a Republican congressman wants to put The Gipper’s deflated, astrology-and-jellybeans-filled head on the $50 bill might not mean much to you, since young’ish stoners rarely come across any bill higher than a twenty [...]

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More Fun With Kentucky’s Insolvency

January 8, 2010 – 2:11 pm

You are probably aware that our great commonwealth is broke. In case you were wondering just how broke we are, here are some general fund receipts just released by the Office of the State Budget Director. According to the report’s cover letter, our state government collected 8.3 percent less in December 2009 than December 2008 [...]

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KY Budgetary Woes Worse Than Expected

December 29, 2009 – 3:43 pm

You may remember about two weeks ago when the Consensus Forecasting Group projected that Kentucky’s fiscal future wasn’t so bleak, after all. So naturally you went and maxed out your credit card on Wiis for the whole family. Well, turns out the CFG got the fiscal story half right, as Gov. Steve Beshear dropped some [...]

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Bring Out Your Dead

October 1, 2009 – 5:07 pm

If you’d like a good barometer to discern just how badly cash-strapped local and state governments are fairing across this gilded land of ‘Merica, take a peek at this: Inside the Wayne County morgue in midtown Detroit, 67 bodies are piled up, unclaimed, in the freezing temperatures. Neither the families nor the county can afford [...]

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