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Oh, Kentucky

Bevin: Judge is terrible https://t.co/W8rqdGkdQS

— WNKY TV (@wnkytv) June 21, 2018

Joseph Gerth in The Courier-Journal has an interesting column on Kentucky's 2020 vice-presidential candidate from New Hampshire and tariffs.

Kentucky's cut of the proposed $716 billion National Defense Authorization Act is more than $150 million.

"There comes a point in time where you have to answer."

Unemployment is down most everywhere in Kentucky--lowest in Woodford and highest in Magoffin.

Good jobs news from Bowling Green, Covington, Russellville and Wilder.

New shoes and new owners for Madisonville's Melody Lanes--most everything else, though, is about the same, reports Laura Harvey in The Messenger.

Weird and sad story developing out of Lawrenceburg: Anderson County High's baseball and football field houses were ransacked last month, and, this week, two recent grads who starred for the baseball, football and basketball teams were among those charged, per The Anderson News. 

Oh, Kentucky

Grayson First?

If you ever wanted an old booth from Applebee's, Monday in Richmond is your chance.

If you want to "Get Fit with Jared," the slimmed-down former UK quarterback will be waiting for you Friday morning at a park in Morehead.

"... My junior and senior years at Kentucky were filled with constant feelings of anxiety and inferiority – a time where national attention was focused on the conversation of LGBT rights with Michael Sam’s own coming out, the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, and subsequently, district clerk Kim Davis’s refusal to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple in Kentucky. For the first time in my life, I didn’t know how to feel. I didn’t know what I was supposed to do or say. Surely I should take a stand and defend what I believe to be true. At the same time, our team was fighting to become bowl eligible. I wanted that bowl ring as badly as any of my teammates and didn’t want to cause any unnecessary distractions ..."

Fingers are pointed in the Dosker Manor bedbug saga in Louisville. 

Engines are idled at Paducah International Raceway.

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It's news that "Kentucky's two U.S. Senators speak out against separating immigrant children from parents."

"11 states are pulling National Guard troops from the US-Mexico border in a growing protest over Trump's family-separation policy." Kentucky is not one of them.

"Yes, the optics are bad that we're standing there like the black-booted thugs. But we're not. We're just trying to enforce the rules at the Capitol."

"We don't necessarily believe in a heavy hand in trying to reduce crime. That's not how this department works."

"Records, research and interviews with stakeholders in the juvenile justice system show that racial disparity occurs at nearly every decision point in Kentucky’s juvenile justice system. As juvenile detention center populations dwindle and fewer minor offenders are locked up, whites feel the benefit most. Youth lockups are becoming more black and brown." The (indispensable) Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting rolls out its newest series.

That bank robbery in Lewisport is no joking matter ... well, it shouldn't be, anyway.

Newport's "whiskey campus" is coming along, despite Mexican and EU tariffs on bourbon.

They opened a support center for veterans in Glasgow Tuesday, and Melinda J. Overstreet reports in the  Daily Times that nine sought help the very first morning.

Democrats are no longer a majority of Kentucky's registered voters.

I stand with Stansdawg.

EKU is apparently going to still have a marching band, after all.

Rest in peace, Georgetta Earlena Harris-Holloway, Ohio-born First Lady of Second Baptist Church in Fairfield. "She loved the Buckeyes, but she loved Jesus more."

Oh, Kentucky

Good jobs news from Hazard.

Newport is getting a "SkyWheel."

Mitch Barnhart, coaches Calipari and Stoops and the rest of the "Big Blue Caravan" head to western Kentucky.