“The Kentucky Black Alliance for Educational Options Pastors Coalition…is saddened by this attempt to defraud our people and cheat our students out of a great education.” The Louisville-based group’s response to the closing of Myer’s Middle School was published in an op-ed featured in the Monday edition of the Courier-Journal. In their letter, the pastors…
The state already has spent $1.2 million trying to keep Seven County Services, a mental health agency – from leaving the Kentucky Retirement Systems. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Joan A. Lloyd, who granted the agency’s request to leave the system, summed it up in her 83-page opinion when she said that the agency cannot continue to…
Angelina Jolie once said about then-husband Billy Bob Thornton that if she ever caught him cheating, “I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.” Based on the cheating epidemic that’s enveloped our society, we…
The Tax Foundation reports that Kentucky’s gas tax is higher than four neighboring states. The Bluegrass Institute wonders why the commonwealth can’t seem to find the money for needed bridges and roads.
In recent reports on Kentucky’s public pension crisis, the Bluegrass Institute revealed that many of the 1,701 entities that added to the Kentucky Retirement System over the years (mostly as a result of politicians seeking to curry political favor) were nonpublic agencies added by politicians seeking to curry political favors. However, passage last year of…
Bluegrass Institute President Jim Waters joins talk show host Joe Elliott for a Free-Market Friday today at @ 10 a.m. (EDT) on Louisville’s 970 WGTK-AM. Listen live here. Then, if you like what you hear, help keep the Bluegrass Institute’s voice on the airwaves by contributing here.
“Has JCTA President Brent McKim entered the federal witness protection program? With some teachers forced to buy their own chalk, why hasn’t their union chief, to paraphrase Mr. Shakespeare,‘troubled deaf heaven with his bootless cries?’ The silence from the Jefferson County legislative delegation is also deafening. Aren’t they just a tad disappointed that the millions…
Former Rep. Bob Heleringer, R-Louisville, responded to the recent state audit of Jefferson County Public Schools by stating two important observations: (1) Money is not the problem and (2) Kentucky parents need choices when it comes to educating their children. Heleringer writes: And speaking of six figures, here in Louisville, those searching for steady employment…
In his post-election analysis (by phone) on Bowling Green’s NewsTalk 93 WKCT’s Drive Time with host Chad Young, Bluegrass Institute president Jim Waters opined that our future hope as a country and commonwealth will be found in individual Americans exercising their freedom, not the status of any particular politician. Listen here. (:21) In fact, it really was not our founders’…
What some candidates could gain in this year’s election – beyond just winning office – is a stark reminder of how wrong political leaders were when declaring last year that they had adequately addressed Kentucky’s public-pension crisis. Instead, legislators with serious courage deficiencies failed to agree on reforms beyond what they believe are “politically feasible.”…