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Kentucky Speaker: Local Option Sales Tax is Focus
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 10:33 PM
Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo says House Democrats' top priority for the 2015 legislative session could be letting local governments temporarily raise taxes to pay for large construction projects. Stumbo had previously said the House would focus on legalizing casino style gambling in Kentucky, an issue pushed by the state's formidable horse racing industry and its popular Democratic ...
Judicial Nominees Testify Before Committee
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 12:26 PM
A U.S. Senate committee has heard testimony from a pair of judicial nominees from Kentucky. WKYU-FM in Bowling Green reported that Senate Judiciary Committee members on Tuesday listened as Bowling Green attorney Greg Stivers explained how practicing law for 29 years allowed him to learn from the judges he appeared before. President Barack Obama nominated Stivers and U.S. Attorney David ...
KY Rep. Waide Indicted for Campaign Law Violations
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 4:15 AM
A state grand jury has indicted Republican state Rep. Ben Waide on two counts of violating state campaign finance laws. Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway said in a news release Waide accepted $10,000 in campaign contributions from Liberty Rehabilitation, where Waide is a partner. State law bars candidates from knowingly accepting contributions from corporations. Conway also said Waide ...
Grimes Bus Tour to Fancy Farm Starts Today
Monday, July 28, 2014 7:26 PM
Alison Lundergan Grimes is kicking off her 14-county, "Road to Fancy Farm" bus tour today. Calling the campaign a "grass-roots effort," in spite of huge fundraisers and visits from powerful Democrats Elizabeth Warren and Bill Clinton, Grimes' political director Elizabeth Cantrell said, “Our ‘Road to Fancy Farm’ bus tour is an opportunity to grow our extensive ...
U of L Cheerleader Found Dead in Apartment
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 5:26 PM
A University of Louisville cheerleader has been found dead in an apartment near campus. The university said the body of 22-year-old Danielle Cogswell was found Monday in an apartment at Cardinal Towne, an off-campus, privately operated student housing complex affiliated with U of L. Louisville police spokesman Dwight Mitchell said the death did not appear to be the result of foul play. The ...
UK, UofL, WKU Team Up on Space Station Project
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 4:30 AM
Kentucky scientists and engineers are collaborating on a project involving research aboard the International Space Station.   The University of Louisville says a NASA grant is making possible the joint project with scientists and engineers from the University of Kentucky and Western Kentucky University.   The research involves experiments on colloids, mixtures of microscopic ...
Clinton to Make Two Appearances with Grimes
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 2:00 AM
Former President Bill Clinton will make two appearances in Kentucky next week with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes.  Grimes' campaign said last week that Clinton would join her at a rally in eastern Kentucky but didn't announce where.  On Monday, the campaign said he would be at events in Lexington and Hazard on Wednesday.  Clinton, who twice ...
UK Gas Leak Prompts Evacuation
Monday, July 28, 2014 4:38 PM
A construction accident disrupted life on the University of Kentucky campus on Monday afternoon. Students, staff, and other workers were evacuated from a 500-foot area surrounding a natural gas line break for about 90 minutes.   UK spokesperson Carl Nathe said, "This was an orderly evacuation, an inconvenience, but a necessary precaution. Whenever you're dealing with ...
Waters: Curse or Cure?
Sunday, July 27, 2014 12:00 AM
Curse or cure? Online debate explores charter schools By: Jim Waters There are two kinds of ignorance: One is genuine unawareness; the other is willful. Rational Wiki defines “willful ignorance” as “the state and practice of ignoring any sensory input that appears to contradict one’s inner model of reality.” Anti-choice politicians possess ...
Whitfield: No Basis for Ethics Complaint
Monday, July 28, 2014 5:25 PM
A Republican congressman from Kentucky says his wife did not improperly spur him to introduce a bill concerning the possible abuse of Tennessee Walking Horses and there's no basis for an ethics complaint against him. U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield spoke to reporters Monday on a conference call. Whitfield says he planned to file the Prevent All Soring Tactics Act regardless of his wife's role with the ...
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