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OpEd: Impeach or legislate?

(OpEd By Jim Waters, who is president and CEO of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s free-market think tank. Read previous columns at www.bipps.org. He can be reached at jwaters@freedomkentucky.com and @bipps on Twitter.) When Amber, my server at a...
Posted On 09 Jan 2021

OpEd: Liberty and lawlessness cannot co-exist

(OpEd By Jim Waters, who is president and CEO of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s free-market think tank. Read previous columns at www.bipps.org. He can be reached at jwaters@freedomkentucky.com and @bipps on Twitter.) This week’s column was...
Posted On 07 Jan 2021

OpEd: Gifts to make Kentucky taxpayers smile

(OpEd By Jim Waters, who is president and CEO of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s free-market think tank. Read previous columns at www.bipps.org. He can be reached at jwaters@freedomkentucky.com and @bipps on Twitter.) What’s in Santa’s bag for...
Posted On 24 Dec 2020

OpEd: Santa Schumer’s relief bill lump of coal in taxpayers’ stocking

(OpEd By Jim Waters, who is president and CEO of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s free-market think tank. Read previous columns at www.bipps.org. He can be reached at jwaters@freedomkentucky.com and @bipps on Twitter.) “Walking in a COVID...
Posted On 19 Dec 2020

OpEd: Kentucky coming up lame in economic growth race

(OpEd By Jim Waters, who is president and CEO of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s free-market think tank. Read previous columns at www.bipps.org. He can be reached at jwaters@freedomkentucky.com and @bipps on Twitter.) This year’s COVID-19 version...
Posted On 12 Dec 2020

Dysfunctional school-finance reports hinder accountability

(OpEd By Jim Waters, who is president and CEO of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s free-market think tank. Read previous columns at www.bipps.org. He can be reached at jwaters@freedomkentucky.com and @bipps on Twitter.) Public education is big...
Posted On 05 Dec 2020

OpEd: Even Thanksgiving can’t escape Beshear’s shutdown snare

OpEd By Jim Waters, who is president and CEO of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s free-market think tank. Read previous columns at www.bipps.org. He can be reached at jwaters@freedomkentucky.com and @bipps on Twitter.) Social media’s abuzz following...
Posted On 26 Nov 2020

Poll, parents and teachers: Unlock JCPS

(OpEd By Jim Waters, who  is president and CEO of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s free-market think tank. Read previous columns at www.bipps.org. He can be reached at jwaters@freedomkentucky.com and @bipps on Twitter.) Michelle Bruner, a member of...
Posted On 14 Nov 2020

OpEd: Denying charter schools ‘a form of institutional racism’

(OpEd By Jim Waters, who is president and CEO of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s free-market think tank. Read previous columns at www.bipps.org. He can be reached at jwaters@freedomkentucky.com and @bipps on Twitter.) U.S. Education Secretary Betsy...
Posted On 07 Nov 2020

OpEd: More than 90,000 jobless claims unresolved despite $17 million no-bid contract

Did you hear the one about Tracey Hayes, who simply followed what Gov. Andy Beshear urged Kentuckians to do by issuing a COVID-19 executive order expanding unemployment insurance to cover additional groups of workers? While Beshear was announcing the signing of the order during...
Posted On 31 Oct 2020