Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Jody Richards: Germane Means What I Say It Does

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Speaker Jody Richards needs a dictionary, not the additional power he seeks. House rules require an amendment to a bill be related to the or...

Sending Veterinarians To Jail For Being Mean

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The Kentucky Senate just unanimously passed a bill ( SB 23 ) that would fine up to $1000 or jail up to 30 days a veterinarian who refuses to...

Improving Health Care Options

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The biggest thing holding back health insurance reform in Kentucky is an unholy alliance between corporate lackeys beholden to the status qu...

"Lifetime Employment Of K-12 Teachers Is Off-The-Charts Crazy"

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Steve Jobs of Apple Computer risks a big chunk of his business by speaking up for education. Read it here.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Victory!!!

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HB 184 has been withdrawn by the sponsor Rep. Harry Moberly.

This Should Be The Easiest Thing To Pass In KY

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Giving Kentucky parents the right to choose how the tax dollars allocated to educate their children are spent should be very easy to impleme...

HB 184 Scuttlebutt

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Looks like Rep. Harry Moberly has called in sick today so his noxious HB 184 should be sidelined for this afternoon's session. May he ...

Major Endorsement For Northup Coming

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The Northup campaign is set to announce a major endorsement next Monday. Speculative Update : Congress is not in session next week. I'...

Teaching Tuesday

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Rep. Stan Lee's HB 30 Special Needs Scholarship bill will be the focus of a 10 AM press conference this morning in the Capitol Rotunda....
Monday, February 19, 2007

Jonathan Miller On Board Against HB 184

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I have to admit I thought it was great in 2005 when the budget negotiators in Frankfort secretly returned $13.7 million to the General Fund ...

The Junk In Steve Beshear's Trunk

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John Stamper has the story of Steve Beshear's economic development press conference from earlier today. While I can agree that making c...

"AMT" Repeal Languishing In A&R

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Three bills to repeal the limited liability entity tax ( HB 87 , HB 88 , and HB 119 ) are dying a slow and painful death in the House Approp...

HB 184 Media Appearance

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I will be on Lexington's Kruser program today (590 AM at 12:30) talking about why we should all oppose HB 184 . By the way, thanks to Ru...

Another Really Stupid Idea To Emulate

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A lot of the "Eureka!" moments legislators have are actually ideas that they picked up from other states. We can only hope that N...
Sunday, February 18, 2007

Consumers Pay "Corporate Taxes"

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The Associated Press has a story about states taxing corporate gross receipts. The biggest knock on the tax is its potential for taxing a s...

Hoover's Real Leadership On HB 184

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House Minority Leader Jeff Hoover will seek a united vote against the egregious HB 184 in a caucus meeting Tuesday. Just received the foll...

Finally, The Courier-Journal Checks In

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The CJ looked at HB 184 and came to the same conclusion the Lexington Herald Leader and everyone else who isn't running Frankfort from ...
Saturday, February 17, 2007

A Call For Debate On HB 184

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I will be on the Kruser program in Lexington on 590 AM Monday at 12:30 talking about what a nightmare HB 184 would be for Kentucky. So far...

Gambling Our Way To Prosperity

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I hope that an economic development press conference by the Beshear campaign would mean more than casinos in the mountains, near big cities,...

Sometimes Compromise Is a Beautiful Thing

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One of the biggest problems with the minimum wage hike hype is that it glosses over the damage done to the part-time entry level worker who ...