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Louisville Gets Green For Greening

February 24, 2010 – 1:30 pm

Mayor Jerry Abramson announced today the creation of four new loan programs whose purpose is twofold: (1) To shore up job creation amid a time of rampant poverty and cannibalism, and (2) create a few green jobs in the process. Created from a combination fund of both federal and city moneys, the new loan programs [...]

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KY Unemployment Rates Up, Benefits Extended

December 23, 2009 – 2:41 pm

The Kentucky Office of Employment and Training released some not-to-happy unemployment figures just in time for the yuletide season.  Fayette County recorded the lowest jobless rate in the Commonwealth at 7.1 percent. It was followed by Calloway County, 7.5 percent; Woodford County, 7.6 percent; Scott County, 8 percent; Boyd, Jessamine and Madison counties, 8.1 percent each; Rowan [...]

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Stimulus Just Getting Started

December 1, 2009 – 12:49 pm

New figures released by the Congressional Budget Office illustrate that socialism may, in fact, be having a positive effect on the nation’s economy, albeit in baby-stepping fashion. While the real impact of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act has been the subject of much “debate,” the CBO’s data — specifically the 600,000 to 1.4 million [...]

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JCPS Gets Stimulated

November 23, 2009 – 4:36 pm

Courtesy of that whole Federal stimulus package that smart people say wasn’t enough to begin with, $52.5 million dollars will be funneled into seven Jefferson County schools for maintenance, new additions and other renovations that would’ve taken years under the trickle-down, starve-the-beast domestic spending policy we’ve come to know and love. Here’s a list of the [...]

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Kentucky Agriculture Gets Stimulus Boost

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 [...]

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If a bridge falls in the Ohio…

September 14, 2009 – 4:36 pm

You have to give it to this city sometimes. Whenever there’s a freak natural disaster (or several), you can at least count on them to be vigorously retroactive in their efforts to haphazardly band-aid any infrastructural hemorrhaging. Be it debris cleanup due to freak flood, errant windstorm or biblical snowfall, you can rest assured that [...]

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McConnell Understimulated

July 27, 2009 – 12:28 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7BQ9mOQqNM[/youtube] Muppet-faced creature of Washington Sen. Mitch “Beaker” McConnell is having fun on the tee vee! Fortunately for him, CNN’s John King is too brain damaged to point out that, over these past six months, the Kentucky senator’s own party has provided no alternatives whatsoever to any of these problems save vapid, obstructionist criticism, the [...]

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White House Touts Energy Efficiency Initiatives

July 10, 2009 – 3:51 pm

Although the following examples will be labeled by conservatives as a series of rapes further perpetrated upon the corpse of Ronald Reagan the American Taxpayer, Premier Obama’s dastardly gang of tree-hugging Trotskyites have taken to highlighting the results of their tiny stimulus bill — most likely in an effort to show Sean Hannity he knows [...]

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YouthBuild Receives Grant, Hope

July 1, 2009 – 2:17 pm

The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded a nearly $700,000 grant to YouthBuild Louisville, an organization that aids unemployed, undereducated and generally disadvantaged teens and twenty-somethings in the River City. The grant will allow the organization, which provides job training and high school education to disadvantaged 16- to 24-year-olds, to operate for another two years. [...]

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Tax Wizardry & You

May 18, 2009 – 6:06 pm

Hey sucker: Want to know how much Uncle Sam is stealing from your debt-laden pockets right this very minute? Venture to nationalpriorities.org, whereupon you’ll discover the gross and obvious spending priorities of that last guy we had in the White House (I totally forgot about him, that one…) vs. our new, hopey one. Regarding our [...]

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