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Louisville news: Thanksgiving at the Beshear house--Dad, pass the tax breaks edition [News]
- "State representatives and local advocates are asking Gov. Steve Beshear to consider changes to Kentucky’s child welfare system. The request comes after reports of a child’s death uncovered that a state caseworker failed to investigate previous allegations of child abuse. This has led some to question the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, which is responsible for investigating alleged abuse." [WFPL]
Louisville news: Some day Beshear will no longer be our governor, but he'll always be an embarrassment edition [News]
- Democrat Steve Beshear will stand up to the Democrats to preserve pollution.
Louisville news: New poll shows David Williams and Gatewood Galbraith have something in common--neither will be Kentucky's next governor edition [News]
- "This bloodbath of a gubernatorial race is getting too ugly to look at without making a face (or, depending on your point of view, giving you an overdose of schadenfreude). Here’s the latest carnage from cn|2:
- Steve Beshear — 54 percent
- David Williams — 25 percent
Coming Clean on Coal [Environment]
Louisville news: NY Times map, survey shows stereotypes about Kentucky largely true, pass the biscuits and Xanax edishun [News]
- "Now the elitist (and infinitely better lived) staff of The New York Times has released a handy visual-aid with which to gain a more accurate view of Kentucky’s penchant at topping every worst-of list you can imagine." [LEO Weekly]
- "Environmentalists combing through public records allege they have found a third Kentucky
The cost of cool: Still a lot of mountains left to climb on coal [News]
This article appears in the January 2011 issue of Louisville Magazine. To subscribe, please visit loumag.com.
LFS’S Community Cinema: “Deep Down” [Movies]
The Louisville Film Society’s Community Cinema brings “Deep Down,” a documentary about two people living in the mountain community of Maytown in Eastern Kentucky who are on opposite sides of the coal mining issue. Filmmakers Sally Rubin and Jen Gilomen tackle this issue that doesn’t stop at Maytown but calls into concern the impacts of coal mining itself.
From their website:
Dig it: Coal Free Future Project
Tomorrow (Thursday) at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Art's MeX Theatre (501. W Main St), we Kentuckians won’t want to miss the Louisville staging of “Welcome to the Saudi Arabia of Coal,” a theatre performance put on by the Coal Free Future Project.
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