Ky. gov. gets OK to create legal fund
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Gov. Ernie Fletcher, mired in a yearlong hiring probe, can create a fund to accept donations to help pay his legal fees from criminal charges that were dismissed, an ethics panel said Friday.
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The state handed out millions in taxpayer dollars to community groups and local agencies without providing adequate oversight of how the money was spent, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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Our position is: Congress needs to add a federal judgeship in Indiana to make the workload more manageable. Marion County courts aren&#39;t the only ones facing budget constraints.
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State and local governments and other institutions could divest Sudan related investments under legislation passed by the Senate late Wednesday
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An Ohio case may be a victory for free speech, but taxpayers will end up footing the bill. Why not hold politicians responsible for paying to defend unconstitutional laws in court?
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The State Department announced a $1 million emergency fund Thursday to help cover such expenses as legal fees and medical bills for human rights activists.
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A bill is on the governor's desk, and 4 of 5 state residents back it. But restaurant chains say mandatory measures are lawsuits waiting to happen.
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Government announces grants to help local authorities affected by recent floods.
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A popular financial portal has its say.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Dec. 13--Because of federal funding restrictions, public meetings for a proposed 1,000-job nuclear fuel recycling plant here won't be held until at least the latter part of 2007.
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The House on Monday approved a $50 million fund to create an international nuclear fuel bank, an idea aimed at negating Iran's argument that it needs its own nuclear fuel program.
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A presidential commission has modified its proposal for a trust fund that would use up to &#36;4 billion in annual offshore oil and gas royalties to safeguard oceans and coastal areas. The change was to answer governors' fears the idea might spur more drilling off their coasts.
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By Jim Sparks, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Jan. 31--North Carolina's land trusts will use a $150,000 grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation to put a strategy in place for expanding conservation and water-protection efforts in the state over the next two years.
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By Ray Reed, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Feb. 28--LEXINGTON -- Gov. Tim Kaine said Tuesday he isn't backing off his goal of seeing 400,000 acres of Virginia protected from development during his tenure, despite a $13 million cut the General Assembly made in his land-conservation budget.
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Kansas is among three states to receive a federal grant that could help working people with disabilities prolong their independence and maintain employment, officials said.
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A major donor to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will benefit from $4 million in state financing for a road project providing access to a 6,000-acre real estate project the donor's company is developing.
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Governor Ed Rendell says the state has averted disaster by winning federal approval of more than $1,000,000,000 in additional Medicaid funding over the next four years.