KCEP: HB 8 would blow massive and growing hole in state budget
HB 8, the so-called “tax cut” bill, will force painful, permanent cuts to our schools, health care, infrastructure, and other investments in our people.
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So now the KY GOP is going after ... libraries?!?
There are bills that you just expect to be filed each year: antiabortion bills; gun bills; tax breaks for the wealthy. I never thought I would see a bill attacking public libraries. But here we are.
An update from Plaintiff Rovira
These anti-CRT bills violate my religious freedom. So, I’m suing.
Vlad the Invader and Trump the Chump
If you’re Putin, why attack Ukraine during Trump’s term, when Trump is doing all he can to pave the way for a future invasiion?
For once, McConnell on right side of history
It is often said that “partisanship dies at water’s edge.” Today, Senator Mitch McConnell chose to honor that saying, and to stand on the right side of history.
Is there a Democratic “Silent Majority”?
Yes, the MAGA folks do make much noise, and get consistent press attention – but Jennifer Rubin thinks there is a new “silent majority” that Democrats can reach.
These 5 crappy bills are on the move
Like any KYGA session, there are lots of bad bills, and a few good ones. Here, though, are five that are on the move, and need to be killed.
Public schools – the new political battleground
The schools are rapidly becoming the most important battlefield on which our “original sin” of racism is being displayed. What some have forgotten, though, is that indoctrination is not education.
Sorry, Repubs – the bills are still a load of whitewash
Sen. Wise made some changes to his SB 138 bill, hoping to make it more palatable. Berry Craig says it is still trying to whitewash our shared history.
Dear Vlad – better read your history books
Before he goes all-out against Ukraine, wannabe Czar Vladimir I might crack a Russian history book about Nicholas II, the last czar.
The Whitewash Caucuses are at it again
Republicans have trotted out yet another bill supposedly aimed at Critical Race Theory. But what the Whitewash Caucus is really concerned about is votes, plain and simple.
For once, the system worked. Sorta.
A really bad bill in Frankfort was actually changed because of public feedback. Yes, really.
Inch by inch, Repubs are eroding democracy in Frankfort
We see Repubs elsewhere attacking democracy in big ways. Frankfort? Not so much. But inch by inch, the KY GOP is still eroding democracy. Death by a thousand cuts is still death.
Today in a COVID world
700 days of COVID. Hospitals are full. ER’s are overrun. Staff are burned out and raw. What now? After losing a dear friend to the virus, Debby Lucas Angel shares her thoughts.
The U.S. and pre-Nazi Germany: the similarities are growing, and dangerous
Mark Twain said, “History doesn’t repeat ... but it does rhyme.” Are we in the midst of one of those times?
Wait – now we need to teach the “good side” of the Holocaust?!?
To all the people trying to cover up the past, here’s a tip: 1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual. And SB 138 is a train-wreck of a bill.
