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Entries from March 2008
March 12, 2008
The Schools
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Kentucky Democrat has a host of reasons that we should be happy to let the CATS test go in our educational system. I’ll give you one more, which is going to seem like a bit of a controversial stance: it takes that [...]
March 11, 2008
Why, Robin, Why?
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So I haven’t been kicking around on these here internets long, and I’ve been doing real reporting even less-long, but since the inception, there have been two constants:
I knew the Stream Saver Bill was important.
As soon as I saw her, I got a little geek-crush on Robin Webb, D-Grayson
I’m sure those of you [...]
March 11, 2008
Breaking: Fallon Fired
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Not Kentucky news, but I’ll apply my local spin machine by saying that Kentuckians enlist in the armed forces at a rate higher than any other state. Even Texas.
So Admiral William Fallon, who was C-in-C of Central Command (Read: Petraeus’ Boss) being let go (He retired. [...]
March 11, 2008
Stream Saver Falls Forward
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PolWatchers is reporting that the Stream Saver Bill is dead in committee, having won a vote 13-12 that needed to pass 14-12. Three members (all Republicans) abstained, although one member–Mike Denham of Maysville–managed to avoid being in the room when the vote was taken. Kentuckians For The [...]
March 11, 2008
House Votes to Raise Tax on Volunteer Cancer Patients
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The House A&R committee approved the 25 cent-per-pack tax increase on cigarettes, among other measures, all designed to get us $800 Million up towards the $900 Million the commonwealth is going to be short in the next two years.
This is [...]
March 11, 2008
The Talent, The Talent, The Talent
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To follow-up on what was written earlier this morning, there’s the beginnings of doing away with our current selection process for Lt. Governor.
This is nothing but good news, despite the misgivings of some on the panel who have apparently become too hung up in [...]
March 11, 2008
Slow News Morning
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So I’ll regale you with a conversation from last night, or a rough interpretation of it. Since this website is new, and I have some friends who aren’t horribly politically inclined, I was talking to a dear friend who hadn’t seen the new hotness that is [...]
March 11, 2008
Evening Extra: Hazing, and Adbots
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I wasn’t planning on writing a post tonight, but had two things that caught my attention: a hazing fraternity at EKU, and the mind-blowing failure of the Google Adsense algorithm.
As far as adsense goes, could we be doing any [...]
March 10, 2008
Welcome to Our Nightmare, New York
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Now that the world knows that Eliot Spitzer has a hooker problem, I think the Commonwealth has something to say to the Empire State: “Ha. Ha. Ha. Welcome to Frankfort, circa 2002.”
Despite the fact that there’s some bigger issues at hand here– [...]
