While University of Louisville officials see their purchase of the faltering Jewish Hospital and other properties as a bold move designed to buoy a too-big-to-fail health care provider which has been part of the community for a century, legislators – at least those from outside the River City – are unlikely to enthusiastically endorse an…
What’s good is that school-choice policy dominated much of the closing days of this year’s gubernatorial campaign. It’s a critical issue for Kentucky, which trails most other states when it comes to school-choice policies for parents. What’s not good is that Gov.-elect Andy Beshear seems just fine with supporting organizations and policies that oppose giving…
Opponents of giving Kentucky parents more alternatives when it comes to educating their children want to distract families and taxpayers and the lawmakers who represent them from the true success being achieved by public charter schools and tax-credit scholarships in some of the nation’s most challenging educational environments. The fact that national test results show…
The recent gubernatorial-campaign debate held at the University of Kentucky featured a statement you rarely hear uttered by a politician of either party, but especially one who portrays himself as a progressive with a spending wish list long enough to cover every inch of the 380 miles between the commonwealth’s westernmost and easternmost borders. “Budgets…
Why should taxpayers be forced to fund or finance projects the private sector doesn’t consider worth the risk? A “For Sale” sign has hung around Louisville’s Jewish Hospital – a mega-money-losing operation – for years. Private investors – even of the hedge-fund variety – refuse to accept the risk of taking on KentuckyOne Health’s various…
“Jesus Christ, Super Socialist” is Ivonne Rovira’s recent missive on Forward Kentucky in which she equates socialism with true Christianity. “It’s time to re-claim the connection between loving our neighbor and how we treat the poor, the powerless, and the earth itself,” Rovira moralizes. “So the next time someone accuses you of being a socialist…
Ample evidence provided by the latest test scores assessing Kentucky’s academic performance during the 2018-19 school year suggests too many of our students struggled academically and that the drama and disruption caused by teachers’ illegal strikes and school shutdowns exacerbated the problems. The percentage of students in both Kentucky’s middle and high schools who demonstrated…
Eddie Campbell, a choir teacher from Knox County elected this spring as the new president of the Kentucky Education Association – the state teachers’ union – has composed an ugly ditty published recently by the Courier Journal with several dissonant notes regarding a proposed scholarship tax-credit policy which would open to the door to a…
“To tell the Truth,” a popular TV game show from the annals of history, featured a panel of celebrity judges who would try to correctly identify contestants with unusual jobs or life experiences. The twist was that while one of the contestants was sworn to tell the truth, two other impostors were also on the…
A lack of transparency and judicial good sense provide this edition of “Liberty Boosters and Busters.” Liberty Booster: Kentucky Auditor Mike Harmon, who released an audit confirming a culture of secrecy continues to exist within the commonwealth’s two largest public-retirement systems more than two years after the General Assembly unanimously passed legislation requiring the major…