If you are looking for a quick introduction to Kentucky’s public pension mess, look no further than this video created by cn|2’s Pure Politics. In just a few short minutes, Ryan Alessi lays out an accurate picture of what exactly is going on. I specifically appreciate his mentioning of the fact that the real victims of…
Feel free to download and use this picture for your social media accounts. This is a small way you can help bring awareness to the complete lack of transparency in Kentucky’s public pension system.
The following letter to the editor appeared in the Lexington Herald-Leader last week. More Kentuckians would be outraged if they knew that the state’s public pension system was legislated into secrecy in the early 1970s. Included in KRS 61.661 is language that ensures public pension disbursements are not subject to open records laws. The law…
I wrote yesterday about the ironic situation of Kentucky getting rated at #10 among the states for its education program by Education Week while in the very same week Kentucky got rated #35 by Michelle Rhee’s Students First group. I’ve now had time to look a little deeper into the EdWeek rankings. Something doesn’t work…
The following letter to the editor appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal this morning. Please visit the newspaper’s site and leave your thoughts in the comment section! Interested in how much a legislator earns for part-time work in Frankfort? No problem! You can find out through the Kentucky Open Records Act. Do you want to know…
Public pension debt is sinking Kentucky and it is being done behind closed doors. Demand that legislators make the public pension system transparent! Included in KRS 61.661 is language that ensures public pension disbursements are not subject to open records laws.Kentucky has been broken by a $34 billion unfunded public pension liability and taxpayers…
Kentucky’s pension crisis is among the worst in the nation, but the legislative trickery in Frankfort that racked up our $34 billion unfunded retirement liability is only part of the story. The other chapters were written in neighboring states like Indiana and Tennessee where legislators engaged in similar political maneuvering to increase their paydays in a…
I had to read this one twice. According to a December 17, 2012 article in The Scientist a University of Kentucky (UK) biomedical researcher: “…was discovered to have falsified or fabricated 45 figures over the course of 10 years.” That research related to cardiovascular disease and diabetes and was supposedly based on using special experimental…