Legislation passed by the Kentucky House of Representatives intended to provide long-term relief from steep increases in pension payments faced by quasi-government agencies like regional universities, health departments and rape crisis centers represents small steps in the right direction. However, the Kentucky Senate, which now will consider House Bill 171…
Every direction you turn at the Capitol these days the discussion centers on what rocks need overturning to find more revenue under the unproven – and categorically untrue – assumption that the 22 billion of Kentucky taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars collected during the current budget biennium fail to provide sufficient funding…
Our commonwealth’s founders wisely set a high bar for changing Kentucky’s Constitution. The process requires support of two-thirds of the members of both the Kentucky House and Senate to place a proposed amendment on the ballot.ens And just in case a steamroll gets started in the legislature on bad policy,…
With spring training just around the corner, I’ve got baseball and boards on my mind. Expectations are high along the river in Cincinnati Redsland at Great American Ball Park – visible from Northern Kentucky – where owner Bob Castellini has dug deep into his pocket to shell out $166 million…
Both projects at the heart of this legislative edition of Liberty Boosters and Busters offer reminders of the costly, if unintended, consequences of government involvement in undertakings better left to the private sector. However, there’s at least an attempt to limit one project’s ability to undercut private-sector competition with a…
Republican legislators representing rural districts across Kentucky who want to support school choice but fear possible backlash from bureaucrats who run local schools back home received some stout political cover from President Trump in his State of the Union speech last month. While calling on Congress to pass legislation creating…
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