Tea Party-supported candidate Rand Paul (R) and state Attorney General Jack Conway captured the major party nominations for retiring Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.) Kentucky Senate seat.
The Associated Press called both races Tuesday night, though the agency projected Paul’s victory much earlier. With nearly 100 percent of precincts reporting at More…
President Obama’s decision not to campaign for Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) ahead of his tough primary tonight has been the subject of media chatter in the last few days. But Specter isn’t the only candidate in tonight’s primaries who has received the hands-off approach from More…
Wednesday’s fatal collapse at a Western Kentucky coal mine is a stark reminder that mine safety is hardly an issue peculiar to one state or one company. But you’d never know it based on the reaction from a long list of coal-country lawmakers.
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One of the two miners reported missing following last night’s deep-mine collapse in Western Kentucky was killed in the accident, according to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). The Senate Minority Leader made the announcement on the chamber floor this afternoon.
“Many Kentuckians awoke this morning to the sad news that one More…
Every day, we’ve been updating our chart of safety violations at coal mines owned by Massey Energy, whose Upper Big Branch Mine suffered an explosion on April 5, killing 29 workers. And the numbers have been climbing at a pretty astounding rate. At Freedom Mine #1, across the Kentucky More…
Last updated April 22.
On Monday, April 5, an explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia killed 29 workers and raised new questions about the safety record of Massey Energy, the company that owns the mine. But as Mike Lillis reported, other Massey mines have More…
Another poll, another big lead for Rand Paul, the insurgent candidate for U.S. Senate in Kentucky who really should be labeled the frontrunner now. SurveyUSA has Paul up 42-27 over Trey Grayson, Kentucky’s secretary of state, in the GOP primary. The trendlines since the last SurveyUSA poll in More…
At around 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 4, Rich Weathers got a call. The Edgewood, Ky., businessman had been a Republican voter and donor for years, so he wasn’t surprised to get a call asking his opinions of Senate candidates Rand Paul and Trey Grayson.
“I would say it seemed like More…
Opponents of Rand Paul, the frontrunner in Kentucky’s GOP primary for U.S. Senate, are pretty effectively spinning his press release announcing the endorsement of “political icon and conservative leader Sarah Palin.” Paul’s opponent, Trey Grayson, is casting doubt on the endorsement, and Palin has not put out a More…
The Club for Growth is hustling to put up the signatories of its pledge to repeal whatever health care reform bill gets through Congress. The big names among the (so far) 21 candidates: Kentucky’s Rand Paul and Florida’s Marco Rubio, Republicans who have stunned the establishment GOP by becoming More…
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