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Tax commission: Politicians ‘loathe’ to reduce spending
“The only solution is to focus on reducing government spending, but politicians are loathe to do that. They’re reelected because they confiscated some private wealth, declared it to be public money,...
View ArticleBill would let Kentucky school districts buy health insurance for school...
I’m having trouble wrapping my mind around the thinking in House Bill 283. This bill would allow locally elected school board members join the health care plan their school district offers to employees...
View ArticleAuditor: Former Dayton Independent superintendent got almost $250,000 in...
Case being referred to FBI New superintendent asked for audit In the latest of an on-going stream of highly revealing audits of improper activities in local school systems around Kentucky, Kentucky...
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Auditor, Education Commissioner call for school superintendent data to be...
The Bluegrass Institute has pointed to serious problems with the transparency of information about public school superintendents for several years now with our Rewarding Failure expose. Our efforts...
View ArticleBluegrass Institute’s Kentucky Legislative Economics Seminar
Presentation on “Priority Based Budgeting, Making Government Accountable” This great video of Bob Williams’ presentation on September 12, 2013 lays it on the line about how Kentucky’s legislators need...
View ArticleBluegrass Institute’s Kentucky Legislative Economics Seminar: Maurice McTigue
Here is a great presentation from the Honorable Maurice McTigue, former member of the New Zealand Parliament and economics expert at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. McTigue offers...
View ArticleAuditor gets bang for the buck
Kentucky seems to be getting some pretty good bang from the buck from its state auditor’s office. Just yesterday there was a major news conference about corrupt activities the Kentucky Auditor of...
View ArticleLouisville’s new schools audit: Let the denials begin
It was only a few hours after the new audit of the Jefferson County Public Schools was released on Wednesday by the Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts before the denials started rolling in from...
View ArticleDespite official audit questions about budget expertise, Jefferson County...
First, a little background – The ink is hardly dry on a scathing new audit of the Jefferson County Public School system, which includes sharp comments about a lack of budget understanding on the part...
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Quote of the Day: Is Kentucky bankrupt?
“What do I think of the new rules? I welcome anything that increases transparency at public pension funds but at the end of the day, these new rules will only highlight the looming catastrophe that...
View ArticleLack of transparency: You don’t have to go to Washington to find it
There has been a lot of discussion in the past few days about intentional lack of transparency with the development and enactment of the Affordable Care Act, but Kentuckians don’t have to look to...
View ArticleStill more school finance corruption!
On June 29, 2015 the Ashland Independent reported in “Auditor blisters Fairview school in report” that yet another case of improper use of school funds – this time in the Fairview Independent School...
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Education feeding at the federal trough
I was at a conference last week where a question came up about how much each state’s public education system feeds at the federal trough. Of special interest: what percentage of each state’s total...
View ArticleMark Twain MIGHT have been writing about some current school board members
I always get a perturbed when school folk seem to be misleading me. I think others do, too. A case in point is a back and forth going on in Elizabethtown. On September 25, 2016 the News-Enterprise in...
View ArticleObama administration spent billions to fix failing schools, and it didn’t work
No, that isn’t our headline. This comes direct from the Washington Post! Such candor from the Post regarding one of former President Obama’s signature efforts, the School Improvement Grants program...
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Go figure
The Rural Blog reported on November 30, 2017 that “The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is targeting the opioid epidemic in Appalachia by establishing a new field office in Louisville on Jan. 1.”...
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