Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Gov. Steve Beshear confirmed that earlier this month he asked House Democratic Majority Leader Rocky Adkins whether he'd leave the legislature to serve in the administration's energy and environment cabinet. But Beshear insisted he isn't meddling in House Democratic leadership races by trying to open up that key position of majority leader. "I'm not involved in leadership races...
Kentucky Progress (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Gov. Steve Beshear's first action after his election last November was to try to get rid of Education Commissioner Jon Draud. Looks like he has found his man . Not that Draud has been any kind of change agent at the Department of Education, but if Beshear plans to replace him with Rep. Frank Rasche , he is not exactly moving us forward.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Gov. Steve Beshear, stung by criticism surrounding travel expenses, arrived Monday in Somerset in an automobile - not an airplane - for the latest in a series of town hall meetings.
Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Gov. Steve Beshear said he will continue taking members of his cabinet with him on his 13-city town hall tour and will fly to other stops just as he and aides did last week at a cost of $7,088. "I happen to think it's important to listen to what the peopel of this commonwealth think," he said in Lexington Monday...
Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
KyKurmudgeon, a blog by the Lexington Herald-Leader's Larry Dale Keeling, is reporting that Jill Midkiff, veteran communications director for the state Finance and Administration Cabinet, is joining Gov. Steve Beshear's communications office. The report says Midkiff will be deputy director for media relations, starting in August. She will join Jay Blanton, who is coming on board as director...
Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
COSTS $7,088 TO HAUL OFFICIALS TO AND FROM PIKE COUNTY Gov. Steve Beshear took three plane loads full of officials with him to Pike County at a cost of more than $7,000 Thursday for the first stop in his six-week statewide tour of town hall meetings. That came just days after Beshear suggested ways state workers could conserve on fuel...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Gov. Steve Beshear has appointed an Edgewood woman and a Taylor Mill woman to the Kentucky Assistive Technology Service Network Advisory Council.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Central Kentucky has a long history of growing tobacco, but people attending Gov. Steve Beshear's latest town hall meeting seem to back a higher cigarette tax.
Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Kentucky will again boost its financial incentives for Ford Motor Co., which announced Thursday that it will keep open and retool its two Louisville production plants. Gov. Steve Beshear and Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson announced at a press conference in downtown Louisville that Ford officials have committed to refitting the Louisville Truck Plant that has been making F-150 pickups...
Kentucky Progress (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
South Carolina continues to kick our butts on Governor-driven state spending transparency. Their latest victory is in posting Medicaid spending to the internet. Governor Steve Beshear, meanwhile, is still dithering. Rep. Jim DeCesare says he will re-file his transparency bill from last year, but he shouldn't have to when Beshear could get it done via executive order.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Gov. Steve Beshear's push for casino gambling died in this year's General Assembly, but legislators continue to give the issue new life.
Auto Channel (Free subscription) | yesterday
Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson said Ford will invest $100 million in the Kentucky Truck Plant. The investment will give flexibility to the city's two Ford plants that will keep production lines moving well into the future, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear said.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
... businesses, creating jobs and enabling people to be taxpayers."Despite the support of Gov. Steve Beshear and other lawmakers, gambling did not come to a vote in the General Assembly session that ended in April. Groob, who favors gambling as a way to generate more tax revenue, blames Westwood and other Senate Republicans for inaction on the bill."(Westwood) has let the people of Kentucky...
Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... resuscitated BlugrassReport.org , complaints abound about how the big bad MSM is treating Gov. Steve Beshear . Speaking of Beshear, Kentucky Progress speculates that Democratic Rep. Frank Rasche 's apparent move to the Department of Education is the first step in the governor's plan to "behead" Education Commissioner Jon Draud , a former Republican lawmaker. Regarding the U.S....
Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Following the failure earlier this year of Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear's push for casinos, Rep. Tom Burch, D-Louisville, is writing legislation for the 2009 General Assembly that would allow 18,000 slot machines in Kentucky. Burch issued a statement Monday saying that 6,000 of those slots would be spread around at the eight horse race tracks, while the others would be...
