Today's Opinions

To the editor:
In these hard economic times, I am appalled at the leaders in this country.
Whether they are leaders in local or federal government, they just don’t get it when it comes to taxes and the welfare of the people.
There isn’t a person who goes to work every day who is not tired of paying more taxes when every penny must be accounted for in the family. You look at your check and taxes are going up while your pay is going down.

Our students keep drowning in the shallow end of the education pool.
Then again, shallow learning is often all we expect.  
No Child Left Behind, the legislative leviathan of test scores and achievement rubrics, has been deemed broken by both Kentucky state education commissioner, our local superintendent and Anderson County’s instructional supervisor.
For good reason.
NCLB standards are next to impossible to please. Essentially, school progress is measured pass/fail so that schools must reach 100 percent in reading and math, or perish.

Larry Cann and his attorney certainly don’t need nor have they solicited my advice, but I’m going to give it to them anyway.
Were I them, I wouldn’t waste my time, money or effort squabbling with Harry Wise Road residents who are fighting Cann’s efforts to build a subdivision. Instead, I’d go to court have a judge declare invalid the planning and zoning commission’s recommendations to deny that subdivision, and here’s why.