Wake-Up Call: Thursday, July 3, 2008

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With the PolitickerKY.com Wake-Up Call e-mailed to your inbox, phone, Blackberry or PDA first thing in the morning, you can get a rundown of Kentucky's top political headlines. Sign up to get the Wake-Up Call delivered every morning.

Ford's truck plant to lose jobs

As the bottom falls out of the market for pickup trucks, more job cuts are afoot at Ford Motor Co.'s Kentucky Truck Plant on Chamberlain Lane. (Courier Journal, Jere Downs)

Link: http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080703/BUSIN...

Beshear announces $10.8 million for median cable barriers

More than 44 miles of highways in five Kentucky counties will have cable barriers installed in the medians to prevent vehicles from crossing into oncoming traffic, Gov. Steve Beshear announced yesterday. (Courier Journal, Michelle Day)

Link: http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080703/NEWS0...

‘Switch and drill’ energy policy from Landham camp

Termed the "Switch and drill" platform, Libertarian Senate candidate and former actor Sonny Landham released an energy plan today centering on decreasing demand for oil from member states of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries [OPEC] by allowing more domestic drilling and encouraging the use of hydrogen as a fuel. (PolitickerKY.com, Trey Pollard)

Link: http://www.politickerky.com/treypollard/995/switch-and-drill-energy-poli...

Beshear taps major fund-raiser for post

Gov. Steve Beshear has made room on the state payroll for a veteran Kentucky Democratic Party fund-raiser and Frankfort lobbyist.

One of Beshear's newest appointments is Stephanie C. Bell, 42, a policy adviser at the Public Service Commission. She started June 1 and gets $72,000 a year, according to state records. (Herald Leader, John Cheves)

Link: http://www.kentucky.com/210/story/451057.html

N.Ky. cheers pension reform

COVINGTON - Last week the Kentucky General Assembly passed and Gov. Steve Beshear signed a law reforming the state's public pension system. (NKY.com, Patrick Crowley)

Link: http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080702/NEWS0108/...

Freedom's Watch fires more robocalls at Yarmuth

Several weeks after launching a first batch of robocalls against U.S. Rep John Yarmuth (D-Louisville), the conservative public policy group Freedom's Watch is again hitting Yarmuth on gas prices with a new round of calls into Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District. (PolitickerKY.com, Trey Pollard)

Link: http://www.politickerky.com/treypollard/992/freedoms-watch-fires-more-ro...

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