04/03/09
Apr. 3, 2009 A link to the Kentucky News Review is available throughout the day on Kentucky.com, under the Find It Now tab, in the black navigation bar above. Federal authorities investigating an alleged prescription pill ring have searched a medical facility and two pharmacies near the Kentucky border and a doctor's house in West Virginia, according to the Charleston Gazette . The federal affidavit alleges that Dr. Augusto T. Abad , a Charleston resident who commutes to his practice in South Williamson, Ky., rubber-stamps prescriptions written by mid-level medical workers at a Mingo County facility, even though he routinely spends only a few hours a week there and rarely sees patients, according to the news story. Lawyer Stan Chesley has donated his collection of papers from the 1977 Beverly Hills Supper Club fire litigation to Northern Kentucky University, according to a press release from the university. Chesley collected about $50 million in judgments and settlements for the families of many of the 165 victims of the fire. The papers will be part of NKU's Steely Library Beverly Hills Supper Club Special Collection. The documents will be open to the public later this year. Federal Emergency Management Agency is providing over $5 million in federal funds toward updating Kentucky's flood maps , the agency announced Thursday. According to the press release , The resulting maps will be even more reliable, updated and current digital products. These updated Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps track actual risk more closely and assist new development and rebuilding efforts. Flood maps for Boyd, Bracken, Bullitt, Campbell, Fayette, Franklin, Greenup, Hancock, Jefferson, Kenton, Lewis, Magoffin, Mason, Pendleton and Pike counties will be updated. Politico.com posts a tribute to folklorist Archie Green , who died March 22. According to the tribute, written by Roger Simon, Green wrote eight books and founded the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. He was lobbying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to set aside stimulus money for artists, writers, filmmakers and folklorists when he died. The Folklife Center also has a tribute to Green. Kentucky's OpenDoor Web site is getting poor reviews for financial transparency. The Courier-Journal reports on Ralph Nader's Center for the Study of Responsive Law listing that ranks state government efforts at making financial information easily and readily available. Nader told The Courier-Journal that the site provides aggregate data, which is good to have. But it's not contractor-specific data. He said the most valuable information to make available is the text of the government contracts, which is not available at Kentucky's Opendoor site.
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