Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | yesterday
... from big oil while voting to give them billions in tax breaks," the female announcer says. - Ryan Alessi
Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | yesterday
... be on the show. Comment on Kentucky airs at 8 p.m. Friday on Kentucky Educational Television. - Ryan Alessi
Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
By Ryan Alessi ralessi@herald-leader.com The galling gas prices that have dominated national political discourse are now fueling Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race, putting both candidates’ economic and political IQs to the test. Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, who is seeking his fifth term, is hammering the issue on two fronts: on the airwaves with his first commercial against Democratic...
Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... before that. He is a past member of the Kentucky Long Term Policy Research Center's board. - Ryan Alessi
Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... of collecting more than 500 signatures necessary to get on the ballot as a statewide candidate. - Ryan Alessi
Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... issue and the two have been bantering over the finer points of wonkish energy policy ever since. - Ryan Alessi
Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
By Ryan Alessi Herald-Leader Political writer When Kentucky's founding fathers put together this democracy, they gave voters the chance to fire their state legislators every every two or four years. If things weren't going well in state government, the people could install better leaders, or so the theory went. Well, the 2008 General Assembly is coming off a spring of...
Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... until December, Williams said. Nighbert could not be reached for comment. - Beth Musgrave and Ryan Alessi
Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Mark Hebert of Louisville's WHAS-TV will be the guest host this weekend and next on "Comment on Kentucky" for Ferrell Wellman, who is taking two weeks off. Hebert's guests this weekend will be Stephenie Steitzer of The Courier-Journal's Frankfort bureau, Roger Alford of the Associated Press in Frankfort and Lexington Herald-Leader political reporter Ryan Alessi. The public affairs show...
