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The Kentucky attorney general's office says a western Kentucky city council violated the state's Open Meetings Act during a closed session in August. The attorney general's office issued an opinion saying the Nortonville City Council broke the law during an Aug. 4 session that wasn't open to the public. City council Delbert Powell complained to Mayor Jamie Noel that the council improperly ...
Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson is hoping Sarah Palin puts her imprint on national energy policy by persuading John McCain to support drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
MINNEAPOLIS—Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson '94 moderated a discussion on the emerging trends among the youth vote in elections during an Institute of Politics panel event held on Tuesday in conjunction with the Republican National Convention.
Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- One of the Republicans' strongest challengers in November is Lou Barletta, a Pennsylvania mayor running for Congress who rails against illegal immigrants taking local jobs. In Louisville, Kentucky, Anne Northup promises to get federal funding for a bridge if she is elected. Kansas Treasurer Lynn Jenkins says she reined in state spending, a discipline missing in Washington ...
After helping U.S. Sen. John McCain win the S.C. primary and the GOP nomination, Trey Walker now is heading the Republican’s fall operations in a must-win swing state. Walker, a 41-year-old Irmo native, is one of a handful of South Carolinians heavily involved in McCain’s campaign. In May, McCain tapped Walker to head his Mid-Atlantic campaign — Delaware, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, ...
Last week some Kentucky Democrats, such as the governor and state party chairman, trekked to Denver with an eye toward urging Barack Obama to come to Kentucky to campaign this fall. But it's a delicate situation in Kentucky. While those Democrats think it might be helpful to both Obama and some other candidates to have him stump in the Bluegrass state, others are shying away from being ...
John McCain's surprise pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will have no effect on the Kentucky race for president, political insiders say. "McCain is going to win Kentucky," said Sen. Tom Buford, R-Nicholasville. "Even if he had picked someone who was not living . if he had picked Abe Lincoln . I don't feel that it will have an effect on the Kentucky vote." Independent polls taken in ...
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton personally thanked her Kentucky supporters at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday and said she will visit the state to campaign for presidential nominee Barack Obama and other Democratic candidates this fall. Jerry Lundergan of Lexington, who was chairman of Clinton's presidential campaign in Kentucky, said she is tentatively scheduled to visit ...
The race for mayor of the northern Kentucky hamlet of Rabbit Hash is turning into a real dog fight. And, voting for one of the candidates will cost you, too. Seven dogs, a cat and a donkey are running to succeed the previous honorary mayor, Junior, a black Labrador retriever, who held the post from 2004 until his death in May. The Rabbit Hash Historical Society, which runs the small ...
John McCain would have been favored to win Kentucky, a conservative-leaning state on the northern fringe of the South, even if Barack Obama had done better in the May 20 Democratic primary that he lost overwhelmingly to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Although politically competitive for many down-ballot offices, Kentucky has shown repeatedly that it doesn't care for Democratic presidential nominees, ...
The Kentucky delegation to the Democratic National Convention has been attracting star power the past couple of days. On Tuesday, Ashland, Ky.-born actress Ashley Judd sat with the delegation while former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner gave the keynote address.
