Oh, Kentucky

The Twitter desk is back from vacation and back to enjoying the feed of 20-plus-year Bowling Green Daily News photographer Joe Imel, who spends a lot of his day listening to police-scanner traffic. So, last night, #joeimel gave us, "Police responding to a 'circle of drum players' at 639 E. 11th Ave." And, "Drunk woman in pink tank top, white pants, asking for rides near Medical Center." And, "12 or 13 juveniles climbing all over a semi behind Krogers."

One of the five in a 5-0 confirmation to cut City of Madisonville funding for Publiclibrary.org's by 43 percent offered no apologies.

Meanwhile, over in Columbia, next Monday night's parks-and-rec meeting figures to get a little lively. "Would like to know why the sign going into the JOE JOHNSON little league park was changed to Adair County Little Park this seems to be doing injustice to a man who worked his whole life building the park so we would have a place for our youth to play baseball and softball. He only spent 53 years of his life working with the youth in Adair County." "I think that the name of the Little League Park should remain as The Joe Johnson Little League Park and not try to be politically correct." "I can't think of any single person in our community who is as honorable, unassuming, and dedicated to a single cause (the young people of our county) than Mr. Joe Johnson. I have never heard this man boast or position himself for praise for any of his countless hours doing his version of community service. Surely, his name can go back to its rightful place."

The new Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame class includes a Paducahan (and one of my 1975 Topps baseball cards).



Back to business in Hickman.

Fort Knox in transition.

Sixty-five soldiers from Harlan County are headed to Iraq. “We have orders for up to 400 days," the company commander told the Harlan Daily Enterprise. "Our job in Iraq is to support Operation New Dawn, and we will be aiding the U.S. troop drawdown.”

The most fiercely debated questions in smart-grid development in the last 40 years have been technology-related. Politics and economics figure to be the foci of the next 40.