Public Finance

It's a television scene familiar to most of us over 20 years old: Wile E. Coyote buys himself an ACME catapult and assembles it, aiming a huge, red rock to land on a black "X" where he anticipates the elusive Roadrunner will pass by. As Coyote lies in...

While the fiscal year 2006 budget was the toughest he has faced during his administration, the proposed 2013-14 budget, which currently has a more than $800,000 deficit, has all of the indications of being second-worst, Clark County Judge-Executive...

Congressional leaders have not passed a federal budget in four years and have continued to kick the can down the road with continuing resolutions rather than solve America’s spending and debt problems. If major corporations operated in that manner,...

Down by 14 points heading into halftime against South Carolina Thursday, the UK Hoops team was unsure of what coach Matthew Mitchell would have to say in the locker room. “We didn’t know what he was going to do when he came in,” senior...

For the last two years we’ve heard the same mantra from the GOP and its mouthpiece, FOX News: “We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.” It’s usually said with solemnity and sometimes a hint of compassion, as if the...

A study that assigned 26,000 uninsured to Medicaid shows average health care costs per person dropped yearly 50 percent. How? Uninsured went to emergency rooms for even “smaller” illnesses, but on Medicaid they each had a physician, reducing...

“If you’ve got a business you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” — President Barack Obama, July 13, 2012. In political terms, a “gaff” is when you accidentally let the truth come out. Barack...

Deficit reduction is an important national priority, vital to our long-term economic opportunity and security. But just because it’s important doesn’t mean that it can be undertaken without regard to our national values.  Unfortunately, the...

Centre College overcame a 12-point deficit with 11 minutes, 22 seconds to play behind a season-high 33 points from Maggie Prewitt and a defensive lift from Jane Goatley to beat Oglethorpe University 77-71 Sunday in a Southern Collegiate Athletic...

Voters in Kentucky and across the nation sent a new wave of fiscally conservative Republicans to Washington last November with a clear mandate: Get our financial house in order. Now, with Congress’s passage of crucial cuts in government spending...

As Washington settles in for a long summer of trench warfare over the looming vote to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, you may be feeling a sense of deja vu. That’s because we have, indeed, seen some variation of this all year: one side...

Think back -- back before we knew that the IRS was unacceptably targeting right-wing groups for scrutiny or that the Department of Justice was unbelievably searching the phone records of journalists. Think all the way back to February, when all anyone...