Kentucky Legislature

As I write to you, I am wrapping up the first week of the 2013 General Assembly Session. Now, since this is a “short” session, when we adjourn Friday, we will not meet again until Feb. 5. The time is used to get new members, committee...

Now that Mitt Romney has made Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan his running mate voters and politicos finally have something to sink their teeth into in the lead up to the Oct. 11 vice presidential debate at Centre College.  Local and state Republican...

FRANKFORT — As mandated by the Kentucky Legislature, uninsured motorists across the Commonwealth will begin receiving notices in June that registrations for their personal vehicles will be canceled if they do not obtain required insurance or show...

FRANKFORT — In his address following the battle at Gettysburg, Kentucky native President Abraham Lincoln stated that we as Americans need “…to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly...

FRANKFORT — The 2012 Legislation Session is down to the final days, and the good news from this week is for the first time in three sessions we will leave Frankfort with a budget agreement. Leadership from both the House and Senate worked into...

FRANKFORT — The 2012 special session came and went this past week, as both chambers were able to approve both a budget for Kentucky’s transportation needs and legislation to combat so-called “pill mills” in the commonwealth. House...

FRANKFORT — With only days remaining in the 2012 Legislative Session, the pace of consideration and approval of bills picked up this past week. At the top of the list of bills passed in the House is one that offers a tax rebate to those who were...

FRANKFORT — Last week’s warm temperatures are a sign that we are entering the spring season, and it’s also a sign the Kentucky General Assembly is entering the home stretch of the legislative session. With the majority of budget bills...

100 YEARS AGO — 1912 David Davis, of Danville, brought to the newspaper office a pair of mongrels — half chicken and half turkey. The fowls have chicken bodies and turkey heads. They make a noise during the day of a chicken and at night...

FRANKFORT — The top duty of legislators was taken up this week as the House passed a new two-year budget by a vote of 78-17. The best way to describe the biennial budget for 2012-2014 is bare-boned. I was among the 17 “no” votes,...

FRANKFORT — After a slow start, a number of bills introduced to protect Kentucky families from runaway government spending, substance abuse related crimes and to restrain government spending began moving through the Kentucky Legislature this week....

FRANKFORT — We have reached the halfway point of the 2012 Legislative Session, and the best way to describe it is like Secretariat running at the back of the pack. But like the great horse’s run to the Triple Crown, it is my hope we finish...