Larry Dale Keeling
Keeling: Tweedling the legislative session away
FRANKFORT — "Hump day" for the 2012 General Assembly arrives Thursday, according to the latest schedule available when this column was written.
Larry Dale Keeling
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LARRY DALE KEELING
Keeling: Buzzards, penguins flock to Frankfort
FRANKFORT — In his wildest imagination, it's unlikely poet Robert Burns conceived of penguin poop as one of the reasons the best-laid schemes of mice and men can go awry. But it happens.
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LARRY DALE KEELING
Larry Dale Keeling: Redistricting qualifies for White Trash Hall of Fame
FRANKFORT — After seven months spent clipping coupons and playing solitaire, interrupted by brief flurries of semi-productive labors around the house and yard, an ol' kurmudgeon's mind either turns to mush or longs to take up his acid-tipped pen again. I opted for the latter — albeit...
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LARRY DALE KEELING
Larry Dale Keeling: Williams, Richie not the stuff of dreams
Initially touted as Kentucky Republicans' "Dream Team," the gubernatorial slate of David Williams and Richie Farmer instead proved to be the party's worst nightmare of recent years.
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LARRY DALE KEELING
Larry Dale Keeling: 36 years on Ky.'s political scene
Goodbye, farewell and amen.
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LARRY DALE KEELING
Keeling: Some guffaws, little suspense in primary
This and that, the Run-up to the Run for the Roses Edition:
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LARRY DALE KEELING
New followers selective about Ayn Rand's message
Ayn Rand lives again, if only in the hearts and minds of Republican politicians and elements of the Tea Party movement.
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LARRY DALE KEELING
Larry Keeling: Williams, Farmer suffer self-inflicted wounds
Sometimes, when you hitch your gubernatorial wagon to a shooting star, even an "Unforgettable" University of Kentucky shooting star, the flight can get a bit bumpy.
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LARRY DALE KEELING
Political season of anarchy and backlash
Yes, dear reader, we still reserve a small space for an Opinions and Ideas section even when my alma mater, the University of Kentucky, qualifies as one of March Madness' Final Four and the Herald-Leader devotes approximately 1.2 million, or more, of today's words to chronicling the exploits of ...
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LARRY DALE KEELING
Keeling: Williams' brinkmanship backfires as House says 'bye-bye'
FRANKFORT — For most of a day in the middle of last week, the "Let's drop the big one now" line from Randy Newman's satirical Political Science kept running through my brain. It popped back into mind Thursday night when Gov. Steve Beshear and a bipartisan House of Representatives joined...
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LARRY DALE KEELING
Keeling: Little reason to be optimistic about a budget compromise
FRANKFORT — Heaven forbid I should ever give readers a reason to think I'm a pessimist. (Pause while the laughter subsides.) But I'm having trouble conjuring up any happy ending to the ongoing schoolyard taunting match in the state Capitol.


