Afternoon Round-Up 8/15/12

Today on NPR: Tammy Smith: The First Openly Gay U.S. General

Business (Kentucky and Beyond):

• A New York-based horse racing park wants to invest in Henderson’s Ellis Park.
• Coal mines in Kentucky and West Virginia will send millions of tons of coal to India, under the terms of a 25-year contract that was signed today.

Government:

• Kentucky's Lieutenant Governor is pushing clean energy.
• The chair of Kentucky’'s tax commission says a sweeping overhaul of the state's tax code isn't in the works.
• The recent federal court ruling that Kentucky’s law against selling wine in grocery stores is unconstitutional may affect a similar law in Tennessee.

The Army Corps of Engineers is dredging the Elvis Stahr Harbor at Hickman, Kentucky this week.