Judge Shepherd expresses concern about botched executions in Kentucky death...
This morning in Franklin Circuit Court, Judge Phillip Shepherd said that he is “concerned” about the botched executions this year in Ohio and Oklahoma, and he thinks the court might need to “revisit”...
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Mitch McConnell: Sexism pretty much over, poor kids should lower their...
Sen. Mitch McConnell has been twisting in the wind over the past few days regarding his support for the Paul Ryan budget in 2011, pretending that he didn’t support voucherizing Medicare even though he...
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Mitch McConnell tells a pants-on-fire lie about Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion
McConnell’s fire pants As we mentioned earlier today, Sen. Mitch McConnell made some truly bizarre statements this week in Oldham County about how gender discrimination is practically over because...
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Sen. Brandon Smith (famous climate science “academic”) is still living on Mars
By Joel Pett, reprinted with permission of Pett/Herald-Leader Sen. Brandon Smith’s truly bizarre statements from a July 3 committee hearing in Frankfort — saying climate scientists are full of it...
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6th Circuit Court of Appeals grants motion to consolidate Kentucky’s same-sex...
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the joint motion by the plaintiffs and defendant in the Love v. Beshear case has been granted, which will significantly speed up the process for a...
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Rand Paul continues lying about his Civil Rights Act criticism, calls those...
Predictably, it appears that Rand Paul did not take our advice on being honest with people about his past statements on the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Instead of giving an honest explanation for why he no...
View ArticleBotched execution in Arizona adds to growing evidence of the need for reform...
Wednesday in Arizona, James Wood was the third American inmate this year to be slowly tortured to death by a lethal injection that was supposed to be quick and painless. Wood’s execution lasted almost...
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Medicaid expansion leads to booming reimbursements, plunging uninsured rate...
Larry Kissner, the commissioner of Kentucky’s Department of Medicaid Services, told a legislative committee in Frankfort last week that Kentucky’s decision to expand Medicaid not only dramatically...
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Rep. Adams calls out Frankfort’s “game of punishment and retribution” on...
Rep. Julie Raque Adams, R-Louisville (LRC Public Information) As we wrote about in print this week, it is extremely clear that the Government Contract Review Committee in Frankfort terminated a...
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The Obamacare miracle in eastern Kentucky
This week we mentioned the amazing new numbers from Kentucky’s Department of Medicaid Services on what the Affordable Care Act and the expansion of Medicaid has meant for the state. Perhaps the most...
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