It is every citizen’s right to vote in the elections, please make sure you are registered, informed and ready to cast your vote in the May 17 primary election. The deadline to register is Monday, April 18, 2011. Voter registration cards are available online at www.vote.ky.gov/register. Fill out and drop off the cards at your…
The Bluegrass Institute recently sent an open records request to the Office of the Governor. You can view the full request here. In brief, the request was meant to obtain “detailed plans, analysis, projections and summaries with supporting documentation…” that the administration had that led it to claim that the Medicaid budget would break even…
According to a recent report released by the WKU Center for Applied Economics, Kentucky lags behind most of its neighboring states in income, population and economic development. Jim Waters analyzes what the numbers mean. Click here to read the latest Bluegrass Beacon.
A few weeks ago I got a chance to watch a sneak preview for the first installment of a film trilogy based on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. I did not have high hopes for the adaptation, given that much of the “action” in the gargantuan novel occurs in the heads of characters, the heads of…
Guess which is the worst-run state in America? If you said California, you would be …. wrong!
THE THIRD GRADE! Psst: Age 18 dropout laws probably won’t fix this! “Third grade is a kind of pivot point,” says Donald J. Hernandez, sociology professor at Hunter College, at the City University of New York. “We teach reading for the first three grades and then after that children are not so much learning to…
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” –James Madison, “The Federalist, No. 45”
Even worse than the fact that this year’s special legislative session was unproductive is how expensive it became. According to numbers I obtained from the LRC, politicians have cost taxpayers nearly $2 million during the past two years just because they could not get their work done on time. Last year’s special session to address…
I spoke with Utah’s new U.S. Senator Mike Lee yesterday and asked him what federal spending is beyond the proper scope of federal involvement. His answer is worth hearing.
Now that the special session has ended, the governor and the Health and Family Services secretary have begun their work to move all Medicaid enrollees to managed care in the commonwealth. Yesterday, CHFS Secretary Janie Miller released a statement announcing that her cabinet had issued a request for proposal (RFP) seeking proposals from managed care…