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(Mayfield, KY) - Downtown Mayfield will once again host the Top Gun Car Show "Cruise-In Series" from April through September, every third Saturday of the month from 4 - 9pm.

Saturday, April 16th, downtown will be alive with cars galore!

A Book Reading/Book Signing for James Duane Bolin's (Professor, Department of History) new book, Home and Away: A Professor's Journal published with Acclaim Press, will take place at 6:00 pm, Monday, 11 April 2016, in the Murray Room of the CFSB Center.

It's April 8th, well past the 60th day of the session and there is still no budget. Wrangling over whether to cut higher education or pensions has run out the clock.

Why can't Kentucky's elected officials do what we sent them to Frankfort to do?

Time is money and time is running out.

It may seem odd that a left leaning futurist is getting the Wall Street Journal in the mail every day - and reading it..

E-Commerce is now where it's at - and Inc. has the bios of the young men and women who are innovating on the web.

FRANKFORT (April 1, 2016) -- A global brand manager for a Kentucky-based multinational corporation is the new executive director of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture's marketing office.

Melanie Blandford of Nicholasville assumed her new post today. As the KDA's executive director of marketing, Blandford will be responsible for Kentucky Proud, the official state farm marketing program.

No governor in recent Kentucky history has lost control of his administration in such a short time. Just four months into his administration, Governor Bevin has challenged the status quo of Frankfort politics and has lost the first battle of this war. Bevin is losing on the state budget fight.

Within the halls of Frankfort and in many schools, medical service providers, county and local government offices and in the courtrooms of Kentucky, can be heard new names for the sitting governor. These names include: Governor Pain, Governor Pain and Suffering, Governor Doom, Dr. Doom, and Little Trump...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 31, 2016) - American Stave Co. LLC, a division of Independent Stave Co. LLC, will add a second Kentucky mill with the construction of a facility in Benton to produce barrel staves for the bourbon and whiskey industries, Governor Matt Bevin announced today.

The $12 million project will create more than 40 full-time positions and provide the company with additional production capacity and flexibility.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 31, 2016) - American Stave Co. LLC, a division of Independent Stave Co. LLC, will add a second Kentucky mill with the construction of a facility in Benton to produce barrel staves for the bourbon and whiskey industries, Governor Matt Bevin announced today.

The $12 million project will create more than 40 full-time positions and provide the company with additional production capacity and flexibility.

In the first two months of 2016, lobbying spending by health care providers, health insurance companies, and other health-related businesses and organizations totaled about $1.26 million, which is 26 percent of all lobbying spending, and a 30 percent increase over health-related lobbying spending in the same period in 2014.

Top five biggest spending lobbying interests in the first half of the 2016 session were: Kentucky Chamber of Commerce ($71,456); Altria ($69,075); Kentucky Hospital Association ($65,799); Kentucky Retail Federation ($59,965); Kentucky Justice Association ($53,675)...;

Obama Administration Announces $65.8 Million Available for Economic and Workforce Development in Coal-Impacted Communities

The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) and the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced the availability of $65.8 million through the Obama Administration's Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) Initiative to develop new strategies for economic growth and worker advancement for communities that have historically relied on the coal economy for economic stability.

On March 17, 2016, the White House announced that President Obama nominated Justice Lisabeth Tabor Hughes to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Hughes, a justice on the Kentucky Supreme Court, was born in Marion Kentucky and raised in Princeton.

Being a teenaged girl in the new millennium brings lots of challenges. Learning from responsible, successful, and confident older teen girls and women can make facing those challenges far less daunting! That's why the Mayfield-Graves County Tourism Commission, in partnership with Mayfield and Graves County high schools, is presenting #LIKEAGIRL - A Confidence Summit.

Anthem Medicaid sponsors the event, making it free-of-charge to any middle school girl and her parent in the region who want to attend! Those present can win door prizes valued at $50 each! Snappy Tomato Pizza will provide a free lunch! And, nationally-known Davina Merritt is the keynote speaker! It's scheduled to take place between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday, April 16, in the commons of Graves County High School, near the intersection of the Purchase Parkway and Ky. Highway 121.

WKCTC will offer two cake decorating classes in April - one for cakes on April 18th - the other for cupcakes on the 25th.

Three Kentuckians are among 61 prisoners whose sentences President Obama commuted: Michael A. Yandal - Murray, KY and Robert Anthony Anderson and Robin Shoulders both of Louisville, KY

For the full list of commutations, follow the jump.

Drama students at Hickman County High will present "No Signs of Intelligent Life" on Friday, Marcy 25th at 1:00 and again at 7:00. The play is a series of vignettes depicting green shirted but otherwise human looking aliens trying to cope with Earth culture. The results are both funny and a wry commentary on our often inexplicable culture.

Rep. Leslie Combs is rejoicing today as the public private partnership (P3) bill she championed was passed by the Senate today. Rumors of its demise were obviously premature.

The Kentucky Senate passed their version of the budget yesterday. Unsurprisingly, it does not match the House version.

Senator Mitch McConnell and Rep. Hal Rogers continue to blame the Obama administration for coal job losses. That's not the whole story.

...What Kentucky Congressmen don't want to hear is that Kentucky coal is no longer what industry wants. It is dirty, over cost production, and no longer in favor as a factor in global climate warming debates.

The visit by the first American president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge will prove highly profitable for both countries...

FRANKFORT--Legislation that would require the state to fund the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System on an actuarially sound basis starting in fiscal year 2017 is on its way to the Senate.

House Bill 1, sponsored by House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, would require state employers to pay 100 percent of the additional contribution rate needed to fund the KTRS pension fund to keep the fund fiscally sound.

Graves County High School TSA students fare well in

regional competition at Morehead State University

MURRAY, Ky. -- Murray State University's College of Education and Human Services (COEHS) is now offering courses in American Sign Language (ASL). The courses are primarily taught by deaf educators via Skype or an in-classroom setting.

Anyone who has ever been to Paducah knows about the US 60 on/off ramp for I-24. That's the one that leads to Kentucky Oaks Mall and rows of restaurants and businesses.

KYDOT is looking to ease the congestion with a new interchange with a fancy name.

FRANKFORT--The Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would bring Kentucky's state ID program into compliance with a federal standard that has a fast-approaching deadline. Senate Bill 245, passed by a 26-12 vote, would make REAL ID-compliant state-issued identification available to Kentuckians.

REAL ID is a federal program adopted in 2005 that would come close to establishing a national proof-of-identity program.

Editor's Note: The Senate Committee Substitute language: adjust fees for various documents to reduce regular operator's license fee from $50 to $48, Combination motorcycle / operator's license from $60 to $58, and personal ID cards from $30 to $28. Thank you David C. Harris, Director of Governmental Affairs for Kentucky Association of REALTORS (TM) for that info.