BIPPS on WKCT
Jim Waters, interim president of The Bluegrass Institute, will guest host “Drive Time” on 930 WKCT-AM, Bowling Green’s news-talk station Wednesday and Thursday this week (10/3 and 10/4) from 5pm-6pm (CST). Listen live here!
Listen to Richard Innes’ WHAS interview about JCPS
Monday morning, Richard Innes spent about 45 minutes discussing the test score debacle in Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) with Mandy Connell on WHAS. Listen to the discussion below. You can read Innes’ thoughts about the JCPS test score coming storm here and here.
BIPPS education analyst to discuss test scores on WHAS
Richard Innes, education analyst for the Bluegrass Institute, will be discussing the brewing test-score storm in Jefferson County Public Schools on WHAS with Mandy Connell. Be sure to tune in Monday at 9 a.m.! You can listen here. For background information, you can read Innes’ recent comments on the situation here.
Bluegrass Institute’s Jim Waters speaking twice Saturday
This Saturday, September 29, Jim Waters, interim president for the Bluegrass Institute, will be the keynote speaker at two events! Murray, Kentucky: Jim will speak at 10 a.m at a gathering for the Murray Tea Party at the Murray Central Park. Hawesville, Kentucky: Later that afternoon at 4 p.m., Jim will speak at the Hancock…
Bluegrass Beacon: Shoot for bang for the buck in public schools
by Jim Waters There is an upside to Kentucky’s budget crunch: It forces everyone from legislators to agency heads to school superintendents to get the most out of every buck mailed in by taxpayers. Lean budget times can also produce shining – and refreshing – examples of how some public servants refuse to make excuses…
Jim Waters discusses pension reform tonight on cn|2 Pure Politics
Bluegrass Institute president Jim Waters will appear on cn|2’s Pure Politics with Ryan Alessi to discuss the shape of Kentucky’s public pension system. This comes on the heels of the recently released Future Shock: Kentucky Politicians’ Opulent Pensions Have Become a Modern Day Gold Rush which outlines how Kentucky’s elected representatives have legislated themselves into…
Bluegrass Beacon Column: Who gets to decide what’s ‘fair?’
By Jim Waters “Fairness” is a term getting thrown around during the current campaign season more than a football at a Cards vs. Cats game. President Obama has even made it the centerpiece of his reelection campaign, using rhetoric filled with talk of “fairness” but nothing about “freedom.” One of his standard lines pines for…
The Governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Tax Reform
The Governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Tax Reform will meet in Lexington from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Bryan Station High School, 201 Eastin Rd. To contact your legislator, call toll-free (800) 372-7181. You do not have to have to know the name of your legislator. You only need to give your name, address and…
Kentucky Public Pensions Task Force
Kentucky Public Pensions Task Force will be held at 1 p.m. in Room 149 of the state Capitol Annex. A series of reports by the Bluegrass Institute entitled Future Shock have highlighted Kentucky’s dire crisis in its public pension system, which has an unfunded liability of more than $33 billion. The choices for solving this problem are…
‘Stop Obamacare Rally’
‘Stop Obamacare Rally’ will be held on the front steps of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. This event will protest the federal government’s regulatory overreach as contained in its Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law on March 23, 2010, and includes an individual…