Opinion

Spare Social Security

We are now hurtling toward the so-called fiscal cliff, a package of automatic tax increases and... More

  • By Caroline Poplin
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Some make, some take

You’re either a maker or a taker. A free marketplace – which used to operate with much less... More

  • By Jim Waters
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Your letters

The State Journal encourages readers to submit letters to the editor for publication by noon... More

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Don't get personal

The city Board of Ethics declined last week to take up the case of the city parks worker who... More

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How to get out of hole?

If state legislators need additional motivation to get serious about public pension reform, they... More

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Shakedown seems real

The 2011 gubernatorial campaign was near its zenith when news came out that the Executive Branch... More

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Garbage burnout

Frankfort’s pay-as-you-throw garbage collection system has a few things in common with Obamacare.... More

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Dancing on the cliff

You wouldn’t know it from the spending orgies of Black Friday and Thanksgiving Day, but there’s a... More

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GOP losing backbone?

Former Lexington radio talk-show host Leland Conway once asked his listeners to send pork rinds... More

  • By Jim Waters
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No harm, no foul?

Betty Burriss ought to thank her lucky stars. The former city transit superintendent, called on... More

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Your letters

The State Journal encourages readers to submit letters to the editor for publication by noon... More

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Local gun laws void

With little to-do, Franklin County Fiscal Court voted unanimously this week to repeal an... More

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Fired isn't finished

City Hall has another personnel mess on its hands. This time, it involves the former outreach... More

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What now, shoppers?

We’ve certainly had our “days” the past week, most of them designed to separate us from our money... More

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The Second Street plan

A proposed makeover of land-use controls for the Second Street corridor got off to a rocky start... More

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Slow growth lies ahead

With an ominous “fiscal cliff” looming on the horizon, the stakes in Kentucky and across the... More

  • By Eric Schansberg
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Must fitness be a grind?

It was probably a coincidence that the Frankfort City Commission and the Franklin County Board of... More

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Your letters

The State Journal encourages readers to submit letters to the editor for publication by noon... More

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The perils of reform

Now that the Public Pensions Task Force has written its prescription to cure what ails the... More

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No place like home

Reputedly the most popular of Currier & Ives’ quaint scenes from bygone days is “Home to... More

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Who needs Twinkies?

The apparent collapse of the Hostess snack empire gives everyone something to chew on.... More

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Public education fails

Grand Canyon-esque gaps in math scores. Praise for poorly performing schools. Failed top-down... More

  • By Jim Waters
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