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 Ballard County factory to go after Asian carp

(Wickliffe, KY) – One of the most invasive, destructive invasive species to hit North America may have met its match in Angie Yu, a Chinese American businesswoman.

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Arts Council has awarded more than $1.8 million in operational support funding to 102 nonprofit arts and cultural organizations for fiscal year 2014 through the Kentucky Arts Partnership (KAP) grant...

Follow the jump for a list of recipients and amounts...

** August 2nd - Governor Beshear will announce new jobs for Fulton County - possibly the German auto factory reported to open in near future. 

Fulton County leads region and state in unemployment at 18.1%

According to one computation released by the state, Fulton County has the highest unemployment rate in the state... 

 Editor's Note: Gene Nettles and his wife Nancy spend their retirement in a variety of ways, including monitoring water and environmental issues. Gene shares a chilling portrait of a future just out of view if the course of history remains the same.

"Who in the world told you those are Giraffe Gates?” replied the father.

"Billy said."

"Son, I have told you before that Billy has an over active imagination." replied the father, "Those are irrigation systems in storage, not Giraffe Gates. Looks like several thousand."

After a brief pause the father mused "In the great World Water War nearly two billion people were killed or died because of the lack of water..."