Open government advocate Amye Bensenhaver warns that HB 509, amending the Kentucky Open Records Law, would "provide a statutorily approved cloaking device."
The aluminum industry’s decline risks hobbling Kentucky’s clean energy supply chain as the electric vehicle industry should be taking off, writes Lane Boldman, executive director of the Kentucky Conservation Committee.
He was the last governor who was a product of Democratic factionalism, a defining feature of Kentucky politics for half of the 20th century, observes Al Cross.
Now is the time for Kentuckians to demand transparency and accountability from their legislative servants, writes open government advocate Amye Bensenhaver.
One well-known example of this too-fast process was last year’s Senate Bill 150, limiting how parents, medical providers, and schools treat transgender children and youth, writes Jennifer A. Jackson, president of the League of Women Voters of Kentucky.
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