Bluegrass Bullet: How much can one vote cost?
How much can one vote cost? One way to find out is to examine how a single vote by politicians to change their pension formulas in 2005 is costing taxpayers big-time in 2012.
Front page of the Courier-Journal
Head over to the Courier-Journal’s website to watch an interview with Bluegrass Institute President Jim Waters talking about Public Charter Schools in Kentucky. JCTA President Brent McKim responded by email in this article. Leave your thoughts about what he says in our comments! (*do we even need to say how insulting this is?) It is unfortunate…
Why the pension-debt explosion?
It’s no secret that Kentucky’s pension system is in trouble. But it has not always been this way. In fact, back in 2000, the commonwealth’s pension debt was a meager $960 million. Five of Kentucky’s six public pension systems were running generous surpluses. The Kentucky pension system was among the nation’s strongest. A dozen short…
WBRT Future Shock video
Yesterday Jim Waters was a guest on Brook’s & Co. talking about the ky pension problem. Watch below the full broadcast I filmed at the studio in Bardstown, KY.
Senate president to discuss pensions on WVLK
Kentucky Senate President David Williams will be on the radio with WVLK’s Sue Wylie Thursday morning discussing public pension reform. This discussion will take place on the heels of the Bluegrass Institute’s recently released public pension exposé, Future Shock: Kentucky Politicians’ Opulent Pensions Have Become a Modern Day Gold Rush. I hope that serious consideration is…
‘Gold Rush’ author Lowell Reese interviewed
Radio talk show host Joe Elliot at 970 WGTK interviewed Bluegrass Institute scholar Lowell Reese recently about the Institute’s new policy report “Future Shock: Kentucky Politician’s Opulent Pensions have become a Modern Day Gold Rush. ” The interview is the report in micro: Reese tells all the shocking numbers, obscene abuses, and conclusions the report…
Taking liberty on the road: Jim Waters in Bardstown tonight
I will be speaking at a special meeting of the Nelson County Tea Party tonight at 7 p.m. at B.J.’s Restaurant in Bardstown. All are welcome to attend.
Educators tap dance as legislators call the tune
Greater transparency and accountability may have exposed padded student counts Kentucky Department of Education briefers unsuccessfully tried to tap dance today around a firestorm that has blown up over the next school year’s funding for preschools. Their two-step involved one of the most confusing presentations I have ever heard in a state legislative meeting (for…
NEWS ALERT: Institute’s exposé: Legislators’ pensions a modern day ‘gold rush’
(FRANKFORT, Ky.) – A new report by the Bluegrass Institute, Kentucky’s free-market think tank, holds legislators primarily responsible for the commonwealth’s public-pension crisis, noting that politicians of both parties have demonstrated “flat-out greed and disrespect for the public treasury” by adding benefits for political gain and enriching themselves at taxpayers’ expense. “Defenders of the status quo…
Taking liberty to the airwaves: New BIPPS pension report author Lowell Reese joins Joe Elliott this afternoon
Lowell Reese, author of “Future Shock: Kentucky Politiicans’ Opulent Pensions Have Become a Modern-Day Gold Rush,” a new report by the Bluegrass Institute, will join award winning talk-show host on “The Joe Elliott Show” on 970 WGTK-AM today at 1 p.m. (EDT). “The Joe Elliott Show” is broadcast weekdays from Noon to 3 p.m. EDT.…