Friday, December 30, 2011

Kentucky needs a debt ceiling

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The biggest news story with the least amount of coverage in Kentucky in 2011 is easily Kentucky's debt problem . Revenues continue to ...

Why Steve Beshear thinks he can raise taxes

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Governor Steve Beshear didn't say anything about raising taxes before this year's election. In fact, he bragged in nuanced fashion a...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

This isn't transparency, Governor Beshear

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Ellen Ballard in the Commonwealth of Kentucky Controller's Office said this morning the state's Comprehensive Annual Financial Repor...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Fletcher versus Stumbo one more time?

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Former Governor Ernie Fletcher's Chief of Staff Stan Cave weighed in on Paul Patton's expensive and controversial plan to get state ...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Phyllis Sparks should be next

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State Rep. Alecia Webb-Edgington has resigned as Kentucky's 4th Congressional District GOP chair so she can run in a likely crowded prim...

Can't grow cotton in Kentucky

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I'm told anything that can be made of cotton can also be made of industrial hemp. Kentucky can't grow cotton. Growing hemp doesn'...
Monday, December 26, 2011

Frankfort's chance to support Christians

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The Commonwealth of Kentucky has been battling for years to keep an organization called Christian Care Medi-Share from saving Kentuckians mo...
Friday, December 23, 2011

What's $336 million among friends?

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Earlier in the week, Kentucky's Consensus Forecasting Group predicted revenues for the fiscal year ending next June 30 will be $9.0 bil...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Governor Beshear's Christmas horror story

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Governor Beshear's Finance and Administration Cabinet appears intent on making good on their threat to keep the truth about the state&#...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Let's protect the First Amendment

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It's funny that the same big-government types who insist paid media is not speech want political speech to be paid for with tax dollars ...

Beshear still hiding bad news

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Kentucky's Gov. Steve Beshear appears likely to get away with hiding the state's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report through the ...
Monday, December 19, 2011

The force is strong with this one

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Lewis County Judge Executive Thomas Massie will soon become a household name in Kentucky for the massive amounts of waste he has uncovered a...

A policy split in the GOP establishment?

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Sen. Damon Thayer has pre-filed a bill to remove the constitutional office of state Treasurer. The Senate has passed this bill before and th...

Now two bills to end Kentucky legislator pensions

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Kentucky legislative bills addressing the David Williams pension scandal keep coming in. The latest is from House Republican Brent Housman. ...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

How slowly can we fix KY pension scandal?

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For the first time, each caucus in the Kentucky General Assembly has filed a bill to fix the David Williams pension scandal . In the Senate,...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Frankfort doesn't want you to know

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Kentucky finance cabinet officials continue to sit on a devastating report on the accumulation of state debt nearly three full months after...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Is PNC taking your money to Pennsylvania?

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Government officials in Latvia and Sweden are blaming Twitter for a weekend run on two Swedish banks in Latvia after "tweets" cla...

Can we interrupt inauguration to ask about this?

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Kentucky's Finance and Administration Cabinet should have a report out any day now showing clearly that the state went $1 billion deepe...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Food freedom gets a boost in Kentucky

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Kentucky state Sen. John Schickel pre-filed Senate Bill 47 to help clear up any confusion government officials may have about the right of ...
Friday, December 09, 2011

Kentucky's shot at a debt ceiling

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Kentucky Knows Best has a report out in favor of a constitutional amendment limiting the debt Frankfort politicians can pile on us. The bil...