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Online gambling too elusive to battle

Larry Dale Keeling

FRANKFORT — Monday evening, I plan to sit down with a group of regulars and spend a few hours kicking off the new season of our own little "poker tour." At least, I hope to last a few hours because, if I don't, it means I went all in early and lost.

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  • Stumbo vs. Richards: There will be blood

    Larry Dale Keeling

    Herald-leader columnist

    FRANKFORT — Oh, boy. This town just went on rumble alert and will stay there until Jan. 6, now that state Rep. Greg Stumbo has informed his Democratic colleagues that he intends to wrestle the gavel out of House Speaker Jody Richards' hands in next year's leadership elections.

  • Rumor mill sped ahead of Transportation indictment

    Larry Dale Keeling

    Herald-leader columnist

    This and that as the roars of the convention crowds fade:

  • Beshear's political footing more steady these days

    Larry Dale Keeling

    Herald-leader columnist

    FRANKFORT — An incoming governor would have to work hard at messing up to get off to a worse start than Gov. Steve Beshear did.

  • ‘Folksy’ Lunsford does not go over well on stump

    Larry Dale Keeling

    Herald-leader columnist

    FRANKFORT — When he’s scripted, as he is in ads and was at the Fancy Farm Picnic, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford has a focused, effective message.

  • Teetering budget could crash without new revenue

    Larry Dale Keeling

    Herald-leader columnist

    FRANKFORT — This and that, the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer edition:

  • Counting budget chickens before they hatch

    Larry Dale Keeling

    Herald-leader columnist

    FRANKFORT — Remember that assumption the General Assembly made about state workers retiring this year in numbers dwarfing the casts of thousands trumpeted in trailers for 1950s-era movie epics, the assumption that led House budget drafters to say 3,418 of the vacancies should go unfilled so the state would save $85 million and the two-year spending plan would balance?

  • Should energy promoters, regulators be so close?

    Larry Dale Keeling

    Herald-leader columnist

    FRANKFORT — Kentucky's Public Service Commission regulates more than 1,500 utilities that provide the state's residents with electricity, natural gas, water, sewer service and telecommunications.

  • Heat on at Fancy Farm

    Considering the heat during Saturday's Fancy Farm Picnic, it was good that a variety of groups were handing out statement-making fans. The most creative came from the Democrats and offered the following Top 10 Reasons to Re-elect Mitch McConnell:

  • First bite out of pension problems

    Larry Dale Keeling

    Herald-leader columnist

    FRANKFORT — They came. They passed a pension bill in the minimum number of days. They left.

  • Beshear's second wind

    By Larry Dale Keeling

    Herald-Leader Columnist

    This and that as we continue searching for the winning ticket we’re fairly sure we bought between the fourth and fifth (or was it the sixth and seventh) glass we hoisted in honor of Saturday’s blowout at Churchill Downs:

  • Legislature's failures have many fathers

    By Larry Dale Keeling

    Herald-Leader Columnist

    What a fitting end to the 2008 General Assembly.

  • Budget committee must pick up pace

    By Larry DaLe Keeling

    HERALD-LEADER COLUMNIST

    When House and Senate leaders announced that budget conference committee meetings would be open to the public, no one really believed the down-and-dirty part of the negotiations would take place in front of the TV cameras and the outsiders granted access to the meetings. It never happens that way.

   
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