Forgive the delay

My apologies for the delay! When the College Dems have meetings, expect postings to be late on Wednesdays. Again, my sincere apologies. Onto the news!

Sasha Cohen will be on the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

In education news, education may be getting the shaft in this year's Fletcher budget. The Kentucky Kernal is reporting that UK may have to increase tuition for the fourth straight year.

Lexington-area senators and representatives expressed general disappointment with what Fletcher proposed for UK.

"In a perfect world, you'd want to give everybody everything they asked for," said Republican Rep. Stan Lee. "But I'm very happy the additional amount of money is put in postsecondary education."

Democratic Rep. Kathy Stein said UK deserved better.

"I'm very disappointed that the governor doesn't realize the need to turn UK into a top-20 university by 2020," Stein said. "Dr. Todd's business plan was very reasonable."

Democratic Sen. Ernesto Scorsone anticipates a "big push" in both houses of the state legislature to get more money to UK and all of postsecondary education.

"If we can't get a better budget, it's going to be very disheartening," Scorsone said. "We just have to do better."

If UK is getting only 87% of what they want, I'd be concerned as to how much NKU will get.

The site where Robert Johnson recorded has been confirmed.

Paul Mecurio's status is rising.

Mazel Tov again to Jon Stewart.

On Saturday, Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, will receive the NSCAA's honorary all-American award. Stewart is a former soccer player at William and Mary.

Lexington youth should check out the Lexington Youth Speak Out at the University of Kentucky student center tomorrow from 5:30 to 8 PM.

The Lexington Youth Speak Out is a city-wide forum in which high school and college-aged youth have the opportunity to voice and discuss their opinions and concerns about community issues with six panelists. Panelists include: Teresa Isacc, mayor of Lexington; Ernesto Scorsone, Kentucky state senator; Jonathan Miller, Kentucky state treasurer; Dia Davidson, news anchor at WLEX-18 in Lexington; Anthany Beatty, Lexington chief of police; Lee T. Todd Jr., president of the University of Kentucky.