Today's Opinions

For nearly 30 years now, the United Health Foundation has taken an in-depth look at our country’s collective health to see how each state stacks up. The most recent report, which came out earlier this month, has mixed news for us.

While our overall ranking was low, at 42nd, that’s up three spots from last year. Only two states, Florida and Utah, made a bigger year-over-year jump.

Dear Readers,
I am proud to announce that, on Nov. 29, 2017, the Ilead Academy in Carrollton received the Kentucky School Board Association (KSBA) PEAK Award. The KSBA PEAK Award was established in 1997 to focus statewide attention on outstanding public school efforts aimed specifically at enhancing student learning skills and, in doing so, to promote the positive impact of public elementary and secondary education in this Commonwealth.

Our complex tax code is in desperate need of reform, and we now have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to overhaul it. We all want an economy that reaches for its full potential again. We all want to support small businesses and the middle class. Tax reform represents the single most important action we can take today to advance goals like these.