For years, the Kentucky General Assembly has been sliding down the slippery slope of secrecy, into a hole that shields it from public scrutiny. Last week, 71 members of the state House doubled down on darkness, and expanded it to make just about every other part of government in Kentucky less transparent.
In one of the more ironic but emblematic moves I’ve seen in more than 40 years of watching our legislature closely, the House passed a bill to reduce government openness in a manner that was far from open.
They started with a bill that bore the bland title “An act relating to financial institutions,” supposedly to remove three gender-specific references in banking law. It was one page plus one line.
Bianca Austin, Breonna Taylor s aunt
They took a big part of our life away from us. She was a good girl. She did not deserve what she went through. . Because of incompetent police work, they went in her house, in the comfort of her own home, and just took her from us. She’s gone. She’s never coming back.
Quote icon Never in a million years, would I imagine us, just sitting here, having a memorial for our baby, Bianca Austin, Taylor s aunt, says. They took a big part of our life away from us. She was a good girl. She did not deserve what she went through. . Because of incompetent police work, they went in her house, in the comfort of her own home, and just took her from us. She s gone. She s never coming back.
Markus Winkler and David James
Opinion contributors
Just when you thought the war on Louisville was over, here we go again. Rather than having a meaningful discussion about how to move the city of Louisville forward, Frankfort is focused on placing its finger on the scales of our local election and abandoning basic principles of local control. You see, Rep. Jerry Miller has introduced House Bill 309 because “we can’t solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created our problems.” While we could not agree more that the same old thinking won’t solve our problems, we disagree entirely on how to solve them.
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