State urged to sign up more kids for health plan (Louisville Courier-Journal)

19 August 2008, 1:41 am

More than 60,000 Kentucky children from low-income families could qualify for a state health insurance plan, but the state has done a poor job getting them signed up, according to a new report by the advocacy group Kentucky Voices for Health.... read more

Government Keeps Hiring Amid Slowdown (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)

18 August 2008, 3:54 pm

State and local governments are in a budget crisis. But you wouldn't know it from public payrolls.... read more

Vote could turn Lancaster .wet' (Lexington Herald-Leader)

16 August 2008, 11:18 pm

LANCASTER . Temperance crusader Carry A. Nation, who campaigned against alcohol and took a hatchet to saloons in the late 1890s and early 1900s, was born in 1846 near Herrington Lake north of here. Nation wasn't shy in voicing her feelings about alcohol. She was often jailed for .hatchetation,. ... read more

Floyd: District strives to continuously improve (Richmond Register)

16 August 2008, 9:18 am

Student centered, data driven and continuously improving.... read more

Commonwealth up 1-0 in battle for jobs (Williamson Daily News)

16 August 2008, 12:07 am

Recent score in the two Virginias' battle for jobs: Commonwealth, 1, Mountain State, 0 — and that was just recently. If we looked back through the years at the number of companies that opted to locate — or relocate — to Virginia from West Virginia the numbers would be staggering.... read more

State buying bonds to help student loans (The Gleaner)

15 August 2008, 10:02 pm

FRANKFORT -- Kentucky state officials have a way to help thousands of college students banking on a student loan to help finance the coming fall semester, Gov. Steve Beshear said.... read more

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