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Tech MSU Team takes High Honors
Students from the TSM master’s program competed in the International Telecommunications Education and Research Association’s (ITERA) student case competition in Louisville, Ky., last weekend. Murray State’s students were awarded first place in the ITERA National Student Case Study Competition.
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State Kentucky Delegates
State Kentucky Delegates
Kentucky will have a total of 60 delegates at the Democrat National Convention, August 25-28, in Denver, Colorado.  Those 60 delegates are composed of two main groups - pledged delegates and unpledged delegates. Pledged delegates are, at least in theory, pledged to vote for one of the two candidates based on the outcome of Kentucky's primary election. Unpledged delegates are able to cast their vote however they wish. Of Kentucky's pledged delegates, 34 are allocated by congressional district.
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Jones: Casino Bill
Jones: Casino Bill "Improperly Handled"
“We’re very disappointed,” KEEP chairman Brereton Jones said March 28. “I think we’ve thought for some time that it was improperly handled. I think the governor made a big mistake in not introducing the bill immediately as House Bill 1, and calling the Democratic leadership together and saying, ‘This is what I ran on, this is what I told the people I would do, this is what they said they wanted. We’ll pass this bill first, and then I’ll help you pass your bills.’
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Taming the Wild Budget Beast
Taming the Wild Budget Beast

Mark Twain once said "Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made." Once again in Frankfort we are down to the final hours of the Kentucky 2008 General Assembly. The House and Senate have had one major responsibility for coming to the state capital and that has always been passing a two year budget.

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The "Superman" of Futurism, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, dies at age 90
The Foundation named for him reports with quiet dignity on March 19: "After a prolific and esteemed career, Sir Arthur has passed away in Sri Lanka." Best known as the author of the short story on which the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" was based, Sir Arthur C. Clarke was both an inspired writer and a source of inspiration for others. In a poll of futurists for the Encyclopedia of the Future (Macmillan, 1996), Sir Arthur C. Clarke was ranked sixth of the 100 most influential futurists in history--ahead of Jules Verne and Isaac Newton.
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Futurist Beshear gets smacked by Future Shock
Editorial Comments: Kentucky entered the 21st Century on crutches. Without real leadership and a true vision of what the potential of the 21st Century held in store for our state, we became a state of ”walking wounded leaders.” The state political power structure was held captive by the impact of 9-11 in New York; the loss of ability to function during the last years of the Patton Administration; and the complete mishandling of the governor’s office during the Fletcher years.
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Federal crime-fighting cuts cause alarm
Federal crime-fighting cuts cause alarm
Congress last December sharply reduced funding for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program from $520 million last fiscal year to an all-time low of $170 million this year. The reduction, part of a much larger appropriations bill signed by President Bush just after Christmas, caught many law enforcement officials by surprise; funding for the grants previously had not dipped below $415 million annually.
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Lexington Newspaper Poll Not Kind to Governor
Lexington Newspaper Poll Not Kind to Governor The Lexington Herald Newspaper recently ran an online poll as to how Governor Beshear was doing as governor. This was in conjunction with Ryan Alessi's article on the first 100 days of the new administration. Most times we do not pay much attention to online polls. It is too easy to fix or manipulate the outcome if your side works hard to push the numbers either up or down. However, this poll seems to be interesting from the fact that (1) it was conducted by a major Kentucky daily newspaper (2) subject question goes to the heart of what is taking place in Frankfort and (3) the number of people who are not happy with the governor who read the Lexington Herald.
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Senate Passes State Budget
Senate Passes State Budget
FRANKFORT — A budget plan tighter than the House version passed the Senate on a 36-2 vote Monday, paving the way for a conference committee to work out a compromise measure. The Senate version of House Bill 406 included none of the revenue measures included in House Bill 262. "The budget we're proposing raises no taxes," said Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee Chair Charlie Borders. "I think that's extremely important."
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Federal Cuts would put Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force at Risk
Federal Cuts would put Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force at Risk
Fighting crime and drug lords in West Kentucky is a major responsibility for the Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force. The Task Force is currently in its 20th year of operation and is now comprised of 16 counties covering Western Kentucky. Their area includes some 340,000 people. The counties now include: Christian, Caldwell, Muhlenberg, Todd, Trigg, Hopkins, Webster, Lyon, Livingston, Crittenden, Calloway, Marshall, Graves, Fulton, Hickman and Carlisle. In the near future, Davis, McCracken, Monore, and Cumberland counties may join the Task Force. Under the President’s plan, the operating budget for the Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force will take a 75 % cut.
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Frankfort Labor Leadership Dumps Rudy--Supports Lawrence House District 1
Frankfort Labor Leadership Dumps Rudy--Supports Lawrence House District 1
Reader be Warned--the following views and analysis are the product of an editorial feature and not a normal news story. Anyone who may submit another point of view will have their comments published in equal space. Kentucky State AFL-CIO leadership selected their political battles for 2008 this past weekend. Most of their choices were predictable. Some were surprising. One was shocking. The shocking one was in the House District 1 comprising the counties of Ballard, Carlisle, Hickman, Fulton, and parts of West McCracken. In this race, the powerful union is supporting Mike Lawrence D-Paducah over the two term incumbent Steve Rudy R-Paducah.
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Governor Beshear Announces Homeland Security Grant
PADUCAH, Ky. – Gov. Steve Beshear today announced a $40,000 Kentucky Office of Homeland Security grant to be awarded to McCracken County Fiscal Court. Part of the funds will be used for Mobile Data Computers (MDCs) for the Sheriff’s Office and Coroner’s Office. MDCs allow officers to receive and transmit data while in their assigned vehicle, as well as compose their reports electronically.
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Kentucky Steelworker Leader Says McCain is no Moderate on Labor Issues
Kentucky Steelworker Leader Says McCain is no Moderate on Labor Issues
America will keep turning right if McCain gets elected, Hari wrote. American journalist Peter Dreier agrees that you wouldn't know that from the American media. “…With some exceptions, the mainstream media have given McCain a free pass, allowing his right-wing opponents [like Rush Limbaugh and religious conservatives] to define him as a moderate, without scrutinizing his record,” he wrote on the Huffington Post Internet website. “Perhaps because McCain is a somewhat avuncular, charming, grandfatherly guy with a sense of humor who occasionally shows up on 'The Daily Show,' he doesn't come off as an angry right-wing curmudgeon.”
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Homeland Security Opens Paducah Office
Homeland Security Opens Paducah Office
PADUCAH, Ky. (March 19, 2008) – Adam Edelen, Executive Director of the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security (KOHS) today announced the opening of a KOHS Field Office in Paducah. The office will be located in McCracken County ’s newly-acquired National Guard Building on Clarks Street in Paducah .
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Kentucky union AFL-CIO Pick Their Candidates
Kentucky union AFL-CIO Pick Their Candidates
Kentucky State AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education - COPE Announces Endorsements For May Primary Elections Frankfort – The Kentucky State AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE), representing twenty-eight international unions, nine central labor councils, six building trade councils and hundreds of local unions across Kentucky, met in Frankfort on Saturday, March 15th, to consider candidate endorsements for the May Primary Elections.
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Kentuckains for the Commonwealth: Fighting in the Lesiglative Trenches
Kentuckains for the Commonwealth: Fighting in the Lesiglative Trenches
Progressive issue politics cannot be simply dismissed by legislators anymore. The shift in global resources wars, climate crisis, water and food shortages, air pollution, and attack on the earth for raw resources without thinking of long term impact or harm to ordinary Kentuckians, is now providing a new path for the KFTC to march.
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Heather Ryan, Democrat, takes on Ed Whitfield, Republican, in Louisville Event
Heather Ryan, Democrat, takes on Ed Whitfield, Republican, in Louisville Event
Democratic candidate for 1st congressional District, Heather Ryan took her fight with incumbent Republican Ed Whitfield to Louisville on Wednesday. Ryan, her husband Carl and their six month old baby, Ireland, show up at the Louisville Metro Democratic Club political debate for US Senator.
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Democrats Push Through Budget Bill
By a vote of 85-14, House Democrats were able to pass a budget bill late Wednesday. This budget is a far cry from the governor’s budget in that new revenue for state programs and operations will come from new taxes on services and other avenues, but not from any casino gambling operations.
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New Leader at Local Government
New Leader at Local Government
FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 12, 2008) – Gov. Steve Beshear today appointed Tony Wilder, Judge/Executive of Boyle County, as commissioner of the Governor’s Office for Local Development (GOLD).
 
Editor's Note: Due to the importance of this appointment, this publication plans to undertake an extensive review of GOLD's structure and mission for later publishing. It is our belief that this agencey is one of three in state government that has the potential to save Governor Beshear's administration
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New Rep. Will Coursey Passes First Bill
New Rep. Will Coursey Passes First Bill
FRANKFORT - Rep. Will Coursey, D-Benton (left), celebrates the passage of his first bill in the Kentucky House of Representatives as House Majority Floor Leader Rocky Adkins, D-Sandy Hook, looks on. Photo by Bud Kraft, LRC Public Information.
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Future of Coal Power under fire
Future of Coal Power under fire
While coal is mined in 26 states, more than two-thirds of it comes from Wyoming, West Virginia, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. West Virginia employs the most miners, more than 20,000 in 2006. Nearly 18,000 coal miners worked in Kentucky that year and more than 5,800 in Wyoming. Coal-producing states that supply nearly half of the nation’s electricity are feeling squeezed as efforts to combat global warming outpace technology needed to make the nation’s most abundant fossil fuel burn more cleanly. In 2007, proposals for 59 coal plants were scrapped in 24 states, either by state regulators concerned about the effects of carbon-dioxide emissions or by power companies worried about the future costs of pollution, according to data from the Sierra Club.
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Timeline for Losing Control of  the Kentucky State Budget
Timeline for Losing Control of the Kentucky State Budget
Steve Beshear won an impressive mandate from the Kentucky voters to change how business was conducted in Frankfort. Beshear had won a hard fought series of political battles within his own party and against the Republicans to gain the right to lead the state into the future.
 
By February 18,that hard fought mandate and political momentum was in shambles. Within 125 days of being elected, Governor Beshear had lost control of the political game in Frankfort.


LEGISLATIVE UPDATE:

March 12, 2008 ( Wednesday) House passes $18.7 billion dollar budget by a vote of 84 to 14. The vote Wednesdy evening was along party lines.
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Has Governor Beshear Lost his MoJo?
Has Governor Beshear Lost his MoJo?
In this state capitol, the halls of power are whispering that the newly elected governor has lost his MoJo.
Governor Steve Beshear is now fighting to keep control of his new political powerbase while structuring a balanced budget for fiscal years 2009 and 2010. On both fronts, he is losing ground to the realities of modern state government.
 Taking a page out of Governor John Y. Brown and Governor Wallace Wilkerson’s Manual of Working with the Legislators, Governor Beshear’s legislative team dropped the ball. Casino bill, as Plan A, is now all but dead in the water. And from all accounts with people close to the 1st and 3rd floors of the Capitol building, there is no Plan B.
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Kentucky League of Cities Leader speaks to the Problems of Future Pension Costs
Sylvia Lovely, Executive Director of the Kentucky League of Cities had lunch with the Courier Journal editorial board recently. She discussed many problems facing cities in Kentucky. She spent most of her time speaking to the problems of city pension costs. The article is a long read, but if you desire to understand how 21st Century Kentucky must confront issues, then it is worth the time to read.
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New Kentucky Public Debt to Entertain the Global Rich?
New Kentucky Public Debt to Entertain the Global Rich?
The propsed luxury hotel,to be built at the Kentucky State Horse Park, is triggering many questions on the wise use of Kentucky state public debt. This is the second large scale public bonding project(City of Versailles,KY being the other project) to create large public debt for used in strange private development projects and potential large private profits. The Lexington Hearld Leader did an excellent article concerning these questions.
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