Knox County and Knoxville are facing growing pension deficits and County Commissioner Paul Pinkston suggests the county should sell the nursing home it owns.
What is a county doing owning a nursing home, anyway?
This is terrific. I know this isn't an ideal time for anyone to be selling off assets, but the principle is more important here. Getting government tenacles out of people's lives is worth taking a bath on a few assets.
Kentucky and its cities and counties should be taking notes.
By the way, a great quote from Knoxville Mayor Mike Ragsdale:
"We're going to have to be creative and do things more differently than we have in the past."
More differently, indeed.
