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McConnell Makes Opening Chess Move To Force Senator Bunning To Retire Or Face GOP Primary Challenge In 2010

Mark Nickolas | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Yarmuth, Anne Northup, Nrsc, Daniel Mongiardo, Mitch McConnell, Jim-Bunning, Trey Grayson, Ernie Fletcher, 2010 Elections, Kentucky Politics, Jack Conway, Kentucky, David Williams, Ben Chandler, Crit Luallen, Politics News

For those thinking ahead to the 2010 Senate races, there is no GOP target more inviting than the seat currently occupied by Sen. Jim Bunning.

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Holder, Race and Obama's 10% of the White Alabama Vote

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

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The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race

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Diane Sawyer: Talk to Ashley Judd, Don't Overlook the 800-LB Gorilla on 20/20

Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Silas House, Ashley Judd, Appalachia, Abc-Tv, Kentucky, Mountaintop Removal, Drug Abuse, Children of the Mountains, Strip Mining, Diane Sawyer, Poverty, Media News

Sawyer's special report failed to notice the 800-pound gorilla in the room: Mountaintop removal strip mining that has devastated eastern Kentucky's communities and economy.

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Coal CEO: "I've been around West Virginia long enough to know that politicians don't stay bought"

Dave Cooper | Posted 03.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Kentucky, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Ceo, West Virginia, Massey, Blankenship, Business News

When it comes to cartoonish coal company eco-villians, no one fits the bill better than Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship.

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Wealth Without Wall Street

Don McNay | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business, Wall Street Bailout, Main Street and Wall Street, Cnbc, Too Big to Fail, Enron, Main Street, Don McNay, Insurance Companies, Cirtigroup, Small Business Administration, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Wall Street, Charlie Gasparino, Citigroup Bailout, Deregulation, Banks, Kentucky, CEO Compensation, Entrepreneurship, Bonuses, Entrepreneur, Wall Street Bonuses, Personal Finance, Soviet Union, Citigroup, Oregon, Business News

There has been a long and irreversible trend toward small, entrepreneurial businesses, located far from money centers. Instead, Washington keeps throwing money at these "too big to fail" money losers.

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Deadly Ice Storm Knocks Out Power For 1.3 Million Across Nation

AP | JOE BIESK | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Kentucky, Crazy Weather, Weather, Winter Ice Storm, Ice Storm Power Outages, Winter Storm, Green News

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Steve Beshear (beh-SHEER) is raising his state's death toll to 24 in a storm that caked several states in ice last week. ...

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Winter Storm Rocks Kentucky, Wrecks State's Power Grid

AP | ROGER ALFORD | Posted 03.04.2009 | Home

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CANEYVILLE, Ky. — Thousands of National Guard troops swinging chainsaws cut their way into remote communities Sunday to reach residents stranded...

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Kentucky Ice Storm: Nearly 1M Still Without Power

AP | BRUCE SCHREINER and BETSY TAYLOR | Posted 03.03.2009 | Home

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MAYFIELD, Ky. — Gov. Steve Beshear deployed every last one of his Army National Guardsmen on Saturday, with his state still reeling after a dead...

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Ice Storm War Zone in Kentucky

Mary Lou Song | Posted 03.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Kentucky, Ice Storm, Ice, Arkansas, Texas, Gas, Bluegrass, Emergency, Food, Weather, Extreme Weather, Emergency Preparedness, Maine, Living News

Arkansas and Kentucky were hit the hardest in a recent ice storm, and AnneB, a Kentucky resident, described how people were surviving in an icy Bluegrass State.

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Describing the Devastation of Mountaintop Mining

Peter Lehner | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Tennessee Coal Ash, Renewable Energy, Fertility, Animals, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Mountains, Trees, Mountaintop Removal, Grass, Tennessee, Topsoil, Kentucky, Coal Mining, TVA Spill, Toxic, Clean Coal, Carbon Emissions, Nrdc, Environmentalism, Winter, Tva, Natural Resources Defense Council, Bush Administration, Mining, Tennessee Coal Spill, Land, Environment, TVA Disaster, Valleys, Green News

We also need to cap carbon and make coal pay its true price so that clean energy can compete with it. NRDC will be working on all of that.

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Coal Waste in Rep. Nick Joe Rahall's Water

Dave Cooper | Posted 02.28.2009 | Green

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The coal industry doesn't want any regulation on coal waste, because it would hurt their corporate profits.

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Consumer Confidence and an All American Attitude

Don McNay | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business

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In today's economy, there are a lot of things out of control. Greedy bankers and lousy leaders put the world in peril -- it is easy to get depressed. Then I think about the bright side.

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We Need a Rehab Program for Spenders

Don McNay | Posted 02.24.2009 | Business

The nation's economic system has also gotten addicted to shopping.To turn the economy around, Americans need to find a spender's version of rehab.

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GOP Pressures Kentucky Senator To Retire

Politico | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Senate Race, Jim Bunning, Gop, Kentucky, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Mitch McConnell Kentucky, GOP Candidates, Politics News

Some Republicans are privately urging Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) to step down at the end of his term amid growing concerns that he can't win reelection ...

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A Wall Street Kind of Scandal on Lexington Ky's Main Street

Don McNay | Posted 02.11.2009 | Business

The Lexington scandal helped me understand why some in the big city media were going easy on the Wall Street mess, while people like me, living in the heartland, are going crazy about their excesses.

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The Post Crazy Economy

Don McNay | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Wall Street Bailout, Economy, Economic Crisis, Consumer Spending Down, Mortgage Crisis, Addiction, Main Street, Don McNay, Credit Crisis, Credit Cards, Wall Street Journal, Frugality, Wall Street Crisis, Subprime Mortgages, Wall Street, Kentucky, Personal Finance, Business News

To some, the crisis was caused by consumers. It's as if they are unhappy that we're getting our act together. It's similar to a dope dealer getting angry when a customer goes into rehab.

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Coal Ash Piling Up Most In Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Georgia And Alabama

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

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WASHINGTON — Millions of tons of toxic coal ash is piling up in power plant ponds in 32 states, a situation the government has long recognized a...

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Burris, Race, Religion, And The Senate

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

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"I am now the junior senator from the state of Illinois. . . . Friends, we're going to have to have some powerful prayer. . . . They can't deny what t...

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Why TVA Coal Investigation Matters: Interview with Former MSHA Investigator

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.30.2009 | Green

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When wildfires consume beautiful homes in California, it headlines the evening news. But when thousands of people go without water for weeks in Appalachia, it's not "newsworthy."

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Making the Best of the Economic Mess

Don McNay | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business

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I don't know how a Citigroup collector is going to convince an unemployed worker that he has a moral obligation to pay up. Thus, I am expecting huge credit card defaults in 2009.

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Jimmy V and the Closed Wallet

Don McNay | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Jimmy V, Economics, Charity, Economic Crisis, Espn, Cancer Research, Cincinnati, Kentucky, Recession, Consumer Confidence, Jim Valvano, Prostate Cancer, Financial Crisis, Cancer, Confidence, Personal Finance, Business News

I'm not the only person thinking twice about giving money to charity. Or about spending money. Most people have the same kind of hesitation that I have. And this compounds the financial crisis problem.

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GOP to America: Drop Dead, or "What's in it for Me?"

David Fiderer | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Auto Bailout, Bush Administration, Mitch McConnell, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Republican, Kentucky, Financial Crisis, Democrats, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Politics News

Let's be clear, the Republican senators' moves against the Detroit bailout is not about $15 billion, which is a rounding error in the context of the Iraq surge or the financial bailout.

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Putting Wall Street on the Main Street Compensation Plan

Don McNay | Posted 01.08.2009 | Business

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Those of us who run our own businesses don't get bonuses if we lose money. We usually don't get bailed out or taken over. If we lose enough money, they lock us up and board up the front windows.

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Unearthed: The News Without the Chaff

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 01.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Freedom's Watch, Hurricanes, Mountaintop Removal, 350.Org, Lobbyists, Coalition of the Willing, Kentucky, Auto Industry Bailout, Farm Subsidies, Global Warming, Cfcs, Media News

Bush eases mining pollution regulations, greenhouse gases reach record levels, 2008 hurricane season sets records, Big Three spent $50 million lobbying Congress this year, and more.

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