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Posted on: December 8, 2008
For the past 8 years, Operation Migration has led endangered whooping crane juveniles to Florida for the winter. 
This year the nearly 1,400 mile migration route was altered to avoid the Appalachian Mountains and, lucky for us, the new migration route flew over western Kentucky.
Posted on: December 6, 2008
Since 1981, Faye Haney has been a familiar face in the Ballard County Courthouse. Anyone renewing their drivers license, paying a traffic fine or reporting for jury duty has been greeted by a smiling face and a helpful attitude. In January of 2009, the helpful attitude and smiling faces will remain, however, the lady at the top will no longer hold the reins. Faye Haney will be attending to other important matters - her family.
 Faye Haney is shown above with her staff of deputy clerks. Pictured are: front to back - Holly Dunker, Faye Haney, Shana Riepe, Ginger Thomas and Anna Case. Haney’s retirement will become effective December 31st. Circuit Judge Tim Langford will make
Posted on: December 6, 2008
http://www.assistance.ky.gov. This one-stop-shop provides readily accessible links for struggling Kentuckians to help find critical resources in tough times, such as health insurance and home mortgage information.
Editor's Note : I checked it out - pretty helpful links. Of course, I have broadband computer access which many struggling West Kentuckians lack.
How about the state sending out a snail mail letter to recipients of state programs with information on where to go to get access to computers and help using them?
Or maybe a public information television campaign? Or both?
Posted on: December 3, 2008
Missy Jenkins, Heath High shooting survivor, teacher and now author, and  Supreme Court Justice Bill Cunningham will be at the Hickman County Arts, Crafts, Book and Food Fair on December 6th at the Young Center, FUMC, South Washington Street in Clinton signing their books.
Posted on: December 3, 2008
This past week’s stories in two major Kentucky papers taken together emphasize the tone deaf quality of our leaders in Frankfort. Spewing money out of one pocket while turning the other inside out to show taxpayers and President Elect Obama the pitifully poor state of the Commonwealth is an activity shared by both the executive and legislative branch.
Posted on: December 2, 2008
UPDATE: We don’t know who fixed the cover. Had to be someone from the government (nobody I know keeps those cool red cones lying around).
W alking back from the courthouse this morning around ten, I noticed the cover was off the manhole that sits right in the middle of the sidewalk almost under our one- and- only- traffic light. A few weeks (months?) ago, someone tripped on this very same manhole and was hurt.
Posted on: December 1, 2008
Saturday's Paducah Sun headlined a front page story "Future of university relies on Paducah".
Posted on: December 1, 2008
 Eastern Kentucky University and General Atomics, a firm out of California, will be working together to come up with a non-food biofuel. General Atomics, founded (when else?) in the 1950s, created the Predator drone used extensively by the military. To move the deal, Rep. Ben Chandler came up with $4 million dollars in federal funds for the project.
Posted on: November 26, 2008
We're joining the millions of our fellow Americans celebrating the holiday.
Back on Monday, December 1st.
Here's our wish for you...
Posted on: November 26, 2008
Got an email today from the Cumberland Chapter of the Sierra Club. It looks like Paducah is on the list for a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. Oh goody. More foulness for ground, air, water and living beings. This sounds like a really bad idea. There is an address to submit your opinion in the email. Do something unfood related this weekend - write to the Department of Energy.
Posted on: November 25, 2008
By: State Gov't Press Release
According to the seasonally adjusted employment data, the government sector, which includes public education, public administration agencies and state-owned hospitals, gained 2,700 positions between September 2008 and October 2008.
The sector has grown by 10,000 jobs since October 2007 with roughly half of those positions in local government.
Posted on: November 25, 2008
Step 3. "Ge ntly pry the headlight assembly away from the fender as shown in the picture. This will free the ball stud from its retainer in the fender..."
Yeah. Right.
Posted on: November 25, 2008
One of my childhood heroes was buried today. Tom Gish, who made the Mountain Eagle (It Screams!) a light in the darkness of the hollers of Eastern Kentucky, went to his Maker at the too young age of 82.
Posted on: November 21, 2008
 Increase in projected shortfall to more than $450 millionconfirms Kentucky’s economic crisis
Gov. Beshear says
“Next year, the budget shortfall may be even larger.”
Posted on: November 20, 2008
Incumbency seems to be the biggest predictor of success at the ballot box. In past elections, we calculated the chances of reelection at 91%. This year, the chances of re-election were even better. The percentage of incumbents went up this year. Two years ago, there were 65 unopposed House legislators. This year, there were 70 unopposed.
Posted on: November 20, 2008
Posted on: November 20, 2008
Governor Beshear has come up with a seven point plan including looking at nuclear power. Does that mean West Kentucky will go nuclear?
Here's his press release.
Posted on: November 20, 2008
 This Saturday's Kentucky Executive Committee won't be as exciting as some seem to anticipate it being. Rumors that KDP Chair Jennifer Moore will resign or be ousted have been denied both in the Governor's office and by Moore herself.
Posted on: November 20, 2008
*70 of 100 seats in the House were uncontested.
*Of 21 contests – *11 Democrats won by 66.8%
*10 Republicans won by 59.2%
*9 open seats
*1 House member lost in May primary
Posted on: November 18, 2008
The major predictor of success at the polls? Incumbency, incumbency, incumbency.
We put together a list of Kentucky Senate races across the state. Without exception, regardless of party, incumbents came out on top. While across America, "change" was the watchword, across Kentucky, it was business as usual.
Posted on: November 18, 2008
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Nov. 18, 2008) – Joined by representatives of the United Way, advocacy groups and children’s health care providers, Gov. Steve Beshear today officially kicked off a coordinated effort to enroll as many children as possible in the Kentucky Children’s Health Insurance Program (KCHIP) by the end of Fiscal Year 2010.
Posted on: November 12, 2008
.jpg) Noted Kentucky futurist, Ivan Potter, announced yesterday the emergence of a new 21st century geographic entity in mid America called the "Great Rivers Megalopolis".
Posted on: November 10, 2008
Veterans' Day sprang from the horror of World War I, the "war to end all wars". Men and women who serve the United States by putting on the uniform and going where they are sent, doing the job that needs doing, and coming home to a world unchanged - except for their lives turned upside down - deserve more than a Penney's white sale or a day to sleep in.
Veterans aren't red. They aren't blue. They are us. Honor them on this their day.
Posted on: November 10, 2008
Gov. Beshear awards $840,000 to West Kentucky
Workforce Investment Board
Funds to assist workers displaced by Trigg County Johnson Control closing
Posted on: November 7, 2008
 Think back to last General Assembly and the blazing issue of the day. Casinos or no casinos?
At the time, casino gaming was advertised to save jobs in the horse racing industry, add much needed dollars to local economies and provide good paying jobs in a slowing economy.
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