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Today Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear released a proposed State Energy Plan that KFTC members hope will be the start of a transitioning from old dirty power to a clean and sustainable energy future. The plan puts a higher priority on energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy, as well as the growth of the bio-fuels industry. The plan calls for a 20 percent reduction from 1990 levels in gr...
KFTC Blog - 11:25 a.m. - 5 clicks 
Some of you that attended Kentucky's county elementary schools might remember a cowboy magician that toured in the 80's. His name was Cowboy Louie Mitchell, and he worked at Loretta Lynn's dude ranch in Tennessee. The same ranch that hosts the annual motocross championship. As a fourth grader at Knifley Elementary School this was one of the best entertainment shows...
BlueGrassRoots - Wed 11:31 p.m. - 10 clicks
Member Mary Love enjoying lunch with other community members at the Summit Members Mary Love and Linda Stettenbenz from Jefferson County attended the Sixth Annual Mayor's Neighborhood Summit held at the Louisville In ternational Convention Center. It was a full-day event, which featured keynote speaker Garland Yates, and included tabling, workshops, and the Good Neighbor Award cere...
KFTC Blog - Wed 2:23 a.m. - 14 clicks
This morning I received an e-mail from the Kentucky-born and bred novelist Silas House. Which I mention not to brag, except I will note that back when I had a magazine Silas was kind enough to write for it, and that (to borrow from Willie Nelson) was something to brag about it. Silas isn't a household name, so I'll add that he's written three novels which make up a kind of cycle built around t...
DailyKos (Kentucky) - Tue 8:06 p.m. - 14 clicks
cross-posted @ GreenKY : Last night was a first for the University of Kentucky. Monday night was not just important for the words that were said, but also for the meaning which made those words possible. The Inaugural Sustainability Lecture Series at UK represented the first time that the university administration has ever directly invested in sustainability programming. For a university ...
BlueGrassRoots - Tue 7:08 p.m. - 11 clicks
Cold weather has finally arrived in Kentucky, only a month late. But if you think that puts the state parks off-limits until spring, think again. Some of the best park events of the year happen in the winter. Southern Lights at the Horse Park Run, walk or stroll your way through thousands of dazzling lights at the 7th annual Southern Lights Stroll Thursday, November 20 at the Kentucky H...
BlueGrassRoots - Tue 5:06 a.m. - 7 clicks
Jobs With Justice and Kentuckians For The Commonwealth Post-Election Poetry Slam Thursday, November 20, 7-11 p.m. Social Hour at 7 p.m. Poetry Slam at 8 p.m. Rite Way Bar-B-Q, 300 W Chestnut St,, Louisville (Henry Clay Building) Calling all poets! JWJ and KFTC are looking for poets who can bring it politically, focusing on election issues, voting rights for for...
KFTC Blog - Mon 8:01 p.m. - 7 clicks
The deadline to email comments in is today. Please get them in if at all possible! The Kentucky Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights is planning a project to examine voting rights for ex-felons (much like a similar project in Florida not long ago). The project consists of two main parts; identifying an accurate number of disenfranchised individuals taking into ac...
KFTC Blog - Mon 8:01 p.m. - 9 clicks
As we reported a few weeks ago , the ACLU had a great Bill of Rights Dinner at which they recognized their allies in different work areas and put together videos about those same areas. Above is the video about Restoration of Voting Rights for Former Felons, including our own Carl Matthews. You can also visit Kentucky ACLU's youtube page Here to see the other videos they made ...
KFTC Blog - Mon 8:01 p.m. - 11 clicks
Please please please, somebody find the old video of Don Pratt presenting his dirty underwear into evidence at one of the LFUCG meetings from a few years ago. And Teresa Isaacs shrugging her shoulders and granting his wish. And a surprised Don Pratt reluctantly handing them over to some poor soul. This great moment in Lexington history needs to be on YouTube for everyone to share and take pride i...
Barefoot and Progressive - Mon 8:01 p.m. - 10 clicks
Check it out!!! Thanks to Cindy: Also, I've received some feedback from folks at the Herald-Leader about their non-coverage of this great event. Basically, the Herald-Leader, like most papers around the country, is having to fire people left and right in order to stay in business. They don't have the manpower to cover as much as they used to. Yes, this sucks....
Barefoot and Progressive - Mon 11:51 a.m. - 14 clicks
Today's Courrier Journal has an interesting article on the disappearance of tobacco crops across the state. The writer interviews a former tobacco farmer and they discuss some of the reasons Kentucky's tobacco farms are an endangered species. Our state leads the nation in adult tooth loss and smoking, yet witnesses public outcry at the mention of per pack tax increase. ...
BlueGrassRoots - Mon 12:20 a.m. - 17 clicks
A few Klansmen learned Friday that most folks don't take too kindly to grown men beating up 16 year-old boys. A jury awarded $2.5 million in damages on Friday to a Kentucky teenager who was severely beaten by members of a Ku Klux Klan group because they mistakenly thought he was an illegal Latino immigrant, the Southern Poverty Law Center said. ...
Barefoot and Progressive - Sun 2:21 a.m. - 21 clicks
This afternoon, there was a nationwide protest against the recent vote on Proposition 8 in California , organized by “ Join the Impact .” People came together in 300 cities from all 50 states (as well as several countries) to show solidarity and support for GLBT rights and this nationwide effort included protests in Louisville, Berea, and Lexington....
KFTC Blog - Sun 1:07 a.m. - 16 clicks
Ten days after Kentucky voters rejected America's first black president, a jury in rural, white Meade County rejected homegrown racist hatred. The leader of the Kentucky-based Imperial Klans of America and a former Klansman must pay $2.5million in damages for the beating of a minority teenager at a county fair that left him with permanent injuries .... Attorneys for the victim, Jordan G...
BlueGrassRoots - Sat 10:44 a.m. - 17 clicks
UK Student Government and the Kentucky Secretary of State's office are bringing an important student political training to UK Campus on November 21st and 22nd - Campus Camp Wellstone It's a powerful grassroots organizing training open to all UK students and we've just gotten word that it should be open to all other college students across the state as well! (we'll know for sure o...
KFTC Blog - Nov 14 - 11 clicks
Bowling Green KFTC members took to the streets to get out the vote on Election Day in this much-anticipated picture set. Folks marched, carried signs, rode bikes, used a sound car, and even a giant puppet (!) to raise awareness and get as many people out to vote as possible - all of this on top of a long campaign of voter registration, phonebanks, and serious voter education. ...
KFTC Blog - Nov 14 - 17 clicks
Two contradictory and self-destructive myths regarding Barack Obama's 16-point loss in Kentucky are taking hold among political types seeking to avoid responsibility for the catastrophe. One myth claims Kentucky's millions of racists voted against Obama: "Racism is endemic! Nothing we can do about it! Not our fault!" Never mind that Obama carried racist-infested Ohio and Indiana....
BlueGrassRoots - Nov 14 - 18 clicks
Turn your eyes for a moment from the catastrophic wreckage of Democratic Party hopes and dreams here in Kentucky and contemplate the stinking, bloated corpse of the national Republican Party. Right-wing ideologues are suffering from massive cognitive dissonance (not to mention a healthy helping of denial). They can't grasp why their party imploded because the vast majority of them always suppo...
BlueGrassRoots - Nov 13 - 4 clicks
It's been over a week and I'm just now beginning to believe that in a short couple of months Barack Obama will be our President, Democrats will enjoy broader majorities in the legislature, and the Democratic brand rises resurgent across America. In Kentucky, we didn't fare as well as the rest of the nation, but we have some time to reflect and regroup and reconnoiter before 20...
BlueGrassRoots - Nov 12 - 5 clicks
Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States three weeks before the 200th anniversary of the birth of the 16th president: Abraham Lincoln. Kentucky's Abraham Lincoln. The Kentucky Historical Society has been all over this anniversary for years, not wanting to miss this one-in-a-bicentennial opportunity to remind the nation and the world that throughout his life, L...
BlueGrassRoots - Nov 11 - 3 clicks
If it could happen in Virgil Goode's better-dead-than-dem district in Virginia, it could happen in Kentucky's First, Second, Fourth and Fifth Districts. The 5th District spreads from Charlottesville (the Tribeca of the South) down to the border of North Carolina. It's been Virgil Goode country since 1997-Goode being the congressman whose re-election campaign was predicated on insulting immigra...
BlueGrassRoots - Nov 9 - 7 clicks
( Louisville, Ky - Chuck's Note: I have been pondering how to put the election and everything after, into words. I couldn't have said it better myself. Who knew Ebert was so....current? )By: Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun Times As the mighty tide swept the land on Tuesday night, I was transfixed. As the pundits pondered red states and blue states, projections and exit polls,......
BlackWednesday.org - Nov 9 - 10 clicks
Hello folks, I wish I was writing to tell you that we won Tuesday’s election in Kentucky’s 4 th Congressional District, but as you may know that is not the case. Here are the final numbers: President-elect Obama came up short in the 4 th CD, garnering 37.9%, with 118,763 citizens voting for Obama. Michael Kelley came up short in the 4 t...
BlueGrassRoots - Nov 8 - 5 clicks
Perhaps it's easier for me to focus on the good news since I live in the liberal oasis of Lexington's 75th LD. But others here on BGR seem completely unaware that parts of our state DID experience the unprecedented national trends -- and we could not have done so well without help from the KDP. On the jump page, I'll provide stats shared at Fayette County De...
BlueGrassRoots - Nov 7 - 9 clicks
Today was my first functioning day after the painful drive from Washington. Once arriving in Lexington I realized that there were no newspapers here either, and the mood was melancholy. 8 hours before I had been surrounded by the happiest bunch of drunks I have ever seen. I expected no less from our red state, and was a large part of the reason I wanted to go to DC for ele...
BlueGrassRoots - Nov 7 - 7 clicks
Gwen and I on the eve of the election. The other two people are Jane Jensen (vice chair of the Fayette County Dem Party, and former co-chair of Change For Kentucky) and Reggie Thomas (LD chair for the 88th; he traveled to several different counties to get votes for Obama – one of them only had one African-American registered voter!). We lost the state for Obama and Lunsford, but the nation wa...
Focus on KY's 88th LD - Nov 6 - 11 clicks
The 76th Kentuckian to die in Smirky's Iraq/Afghanistan Clusterfuck Fiasco is 27-year-old Daniel Wallace of Dry Ridge. Wallace died on October 31 in Badin Kheyl, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using small arms fire. He was assigned to the 201st Combat Engineer Battalion, Kentucky Army National Guard in Cynthiana, Ky. He is the 17th Kentucky National Guard...
BlueGrassRoots - Nov 6 - 7 clicks
November 4, 2008 Louisville, Kentucky Needless to say I’m very disappointed that Bruce Lunsford didn’t beat Senator Mitch McConnell, but I can take comfort in knowing that I gave it my best shot to get rid of Mitch McConnell’s slimy ass and I also realize that Bruce Lunsford must be disappointed because Bruce gave [...]...
DitchMitchKY.com - Nov 5 - 12 clicks
By: Pam Newman Louisville, KY - Just in case it may have possibly slipped your mind: Today is election day!Needless to say, get your ass out and vote!If you don't know where you are supposed to vote, Kentucky has a website set up for you to go figure it out. They even give you a handy MapQuest link to figure out where you're supposed......
BlackWednesday.org - Nov 4 - 9 clicks
November 2, 2008 Louisville,Kentucky Hillary Clinton was in Louisville Sunday to help Bruce Lunsford ditch Mitch McConnell. This is her 2nd trip here to help Bruce Lunsford defeat Mitch McConnell. Bill Clinton was here in Kentucky stumping for Bruce Lunsford in October and Ashley Judd was here Saturday . This race is being watched all over the [...]...
DitchMitchKY.com - Nov 3 - 11 clicks
