Happy Easter and Passover! Hide those eggs and break that matzah.
Rains, winds and storms are the story for the next day or so. Then comes a maybe-okay Sunday and cooler temperatures will roll in. Sounds like wearing your fancy Easter Sunday outfits might not cause you to break much of a sweat. [WXorNot & YouTube]
Maybe instead of feigning outrage at some bingo cards, the Kentucky Democratic Party should actually put up a fight. Maybe instead of eating their own and throwing their hands up in a phony show of frustration they could make a peep about something substantive. Literally anything other than bingo cards. We’re begging them. And before you pop off, a liberal is typing this at this very moment. [WBKO]
Some terrible things happened to politicking in Frankfort this legislative session. Let’s highlight a few: Judicial candidates can now be disgustingly partisan, just wholly perverting the courts. You can now pump $3,500 into state candidates each election and $10,000 per political party. [Courier-Journal]
We’ve got an important life lesson or pro-tip for you. Ready? Here it is: Don’t try to hire someone to maybe murder your spouse! Don’t harm anyone. Terrifying that someone in an alleged murder-for-higher plot gets off with just probation.
[BG Daily News]
Diversas comunidades se reunieron el sábado por la tarde para marchar en la protesta “No Kings” (Sin Reyes), organizada por SOKY Indivisible, llenando las calles del centro de la ciudad con cánticos y pancartas que abogaban por el cambio. Streets across Kentucky and Tennessee flowed with streams of protesters, Saturday, for the third No Kings protest against President Donald Trump. Crowds formed rapidly at Circus Square Park in Bowling Green as people from different backgrounds and ages came together. Sure is funny seeing a white guy who has never met someone from the Middle East wear a keffiyeh while screaming about kings… while proudly supporting literal kings and dictators. [WKU Herald & English Version]
Warren County had the fastest growth in the Commonwealth of Kentucky over the last five years. That means 15,000 new people for Bowling Green – not births but people moving to the area – in a short timeframe. From July 2023 to July 2024, Warren County’s population grew by 4,007 people. During that same period, Jefferson County’s (Louisville) population only grew by 10,500 people. Keep in mind that Louisville’s total population is nearly 800,000 and Warren County’s is 150,000. That’s massive growth for Bowling Green. [Herald-Leader & Kentucky State Data Center]
You don’t receive more than $220,000 in illegal campaign contributions ON THE SAME CREDIT CARD made to your gubernatorial campaign and your statewide political party and not know it’s a problem. Literally impossible that it played out as claimed. Both ActBlue and NGP/VAN have built-in protections. Those systems you use alert you to those problems. This isn’t the governor’s first rodeo with this very same thing. The last time multiple people, including Tim Longmeyer and Larry O’Bryan, went to prison for straw man campaign finance fraud to benefit him. Now the mayor of London is alleged to have done the same thing. And no one wants to call a spade a spade. We’re raging liberals over here calling it out, for the record. [WKYT]
Local non-profit Hotel Inc., is growing a program that gives people going through homelessness a safe place to recover after leaving the hospital. Previously, the program operated out of a single home in the Delafield neighborhood with three bedrooms, but demand has outpaced capacity. Thanks to the support of a private donor, the program is expanding to a total of 10 bedrooms across two locations in the same neighborhood.
[WNKY & Hotel Inc.]
Kentucky lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday that puts restrictions on automated license plate readers, like Flock cameras. The measure puts limits on the data collected by those cameras. All data would need to be destroyed within 90 days, unless it’s tied to an active criminal investigation. Data also cannot be sold or shared. [WDRB & HB 58]
Yet another historic Kentucky business is about to be owned by a foreign group. Looks like they’re really gonna give up all local control and Louisville’s Brown Family is getting ready to wash its hands of the community that made it billionaires. [Brown-Forman]
Ever wondered how a story gets twisted and spun in mainstream media? Here’s a pretty good example. A young woman in Louisville was in a mental health crisis and police killed her. She had a piece of glass and they had guns… and tasers, batons, pepper spray, blah, blah, blah, we’re not here to argue unnecessary deadly force. We’re here to argue about media manipulation, intentional or otherwise. Check out the headlines and the meat of the story from each of these five outlets. Some are clear and honest, some paint the woman as a villain, others straddle the fence. It’s an illustration of how laziness and disinterest from inexperienced people blend with biases and assumption. TL;DR: You’ve gotta have more than one trusted news source – you need several. [Courier-Journal , WAVE3, WDRB, WHAS11 & WLKY]
Kentucky native Desi Lydic summed up Andy Beshear’s podcast quite nicely. We’ll never understand how it’s acceptable for elected officials have time for multi-million dollar talk show deals while half their state is on SNAP and the other half has no access to health care. [The Daily Show/YouTube]
We think some politicians here and in the rest of the state – like Lexington, where they keep trying to destroy solar – should watch this video a few times. If you have a few extra dollars burning a hole in your pocket, you should probably invest in at-home solar. $600-$700 can get you a nice solar panel and backup battery system. In addition to everything else this explains. [YouTube]
Here’s what we mean about Lexington. Some busybody NIMBYs are mad about putting a solar farm on a – get this – CLOSED LANDFILL. How dumb is that? Just so, so dumb. Junk like that makes the rest of the world think Kentuckians really are as dumb as the old tropes suggest. [Herald-Leader]
It’s opening day for the Bowling Green Hot Rods Professional Minor League Baseball team! Games tonight, tomorrow (kids get to run the bases) and Sunday. If you’re tired after all the Easter and Passover events, you can take the family and snag some post-game autographs Sunday afternoon. [Visit BG & BG Hot Rods]