Comments on: Traveling – How Bout an Open Thread?

By: johnny masters

johnny masters — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:52:58 +0000

Yeah, since I have no power, I advocate anarchy. We don’t need a government. It’s pretty random anyways, out here, in society, and government many times adds to those trials. I am liberal, because I can’t stand W. Bush, and we need to stand up for ourselves, like Limbaugh, and Beck do, with a loud and proud liberal bias. It’s more entertaining, and a liberal Bill O’Reilly would be really popular these days. So while I advocate anarchy for now, I feel like I am doing that so that way the pendulum will swing as far left as it has swung far right. So I am only being an anarchist until I get power, and then I’ll just turn on the socialism, drowning every citizen with lots of valuable goods, and buildings, and bridges so that they’ll keep on reelecting me into office, again and again, to become a career politician, who have a 95% chance of getting reelected once they’re in. So once you’re in, you’re in. You’re in for life. And giving Kentuckians things they need, like toilets, whether they say they want it or not, it’s for their own good. Take your government gift. Remember government is the only entity out there left to fight big business.

By: Mark H (Not Hebert)

Mark H (Not Hebert) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:16:59 +0000

Consolidate every three rural counties and their government infrastructures into one.

This state has too many political representatives and a disproportionate number of representatives from states that contribute very little to the economic productivity of the state.

Not surprisingly, Frankfort is like an anchor around the economic and educational viability of this state.

By: tammywynette

tammywynette — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:30:03 +0000

A focus on education for pre-natal parents, for home visits for at-risk newborns, for quality pre-school affordable to all, and full day kindergarten for our children would do much for the high rate of drop-outs and sorry health we have in KY.

By: curtis morrison

curtis morrison — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:06:40 +0000

Kentucky needs to be friendlier to entrepreneurs.
Kentucky needs clean air and streams. We need to hang on to our natural assets like mountains.
How about just making this a great place to live?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:58:54 +0000

It’s seems Louisville has wanted to be a “bigger” metropolitian area for years. Maybe we could take the advice of the above posts and actually become a bigger, better city!

By: hersh

hersh — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:15:09 +0000

“What’s the most urgent need of your immediate community?”

Healthy people.

Kentucky ranks at the top of list for about every condition.

By: Hopeful

Hopeful — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:02:12 +0000

Education on all levels – good quality K-12 education, reasonably priced but good quality post secondary education, older adult education.

Better opportunities for unemployed or underemployed workers to get true job training or re-training, see Michigan’s No Worker Left Behind act.

A better and more wide-spread technology infrastructure. This will give people easier access to educational opportunities, better libraries and better schools. Additionally, this would attract more businesses – just as having sewers, electric, water and roads are important to business development, education and technology are just as critical.

Understanding that as great as the legacy of horse industry is, times have changed and we need to change if Kentucky still wants to attract new residents, companies and tax dollars. You can keep the heritage but we have to start thinking of Kentucky as growing and evolving into a place with a great history but a bright future. However, this also means that we , as residents, need to look for and elect new progressive thinking leadership and stop with the “Old Boy’s Club” and stop politics as we know it.

Kentucky has a lot to do, but it’s time that the people who are supposed to represent us on all levels actually LISTEN to us, look around at the hardest hit sections of the commonwealth and use their abilities and powers to give Kentucky a progressive future.

By: Section Dispartue

Section Dispartue — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:59:29 +0000

All very good ideas, and one would be hard-pressed to disagree with any of them. By and large, roads in Kentucky are superior to our neighbors – given our high number of counties and the autonomy that comes with each one.

Education is always an easy answer. I believe that we should make educaiton leaner. There is an exorbitant amount of our money flowing into an educaiton system that spends far too much on the salaries of many staff members. NEA and KEA are far too powerful.

I agree with you ‘ahem’. A better informed electorate would make all the difference in these and other matters. We would see campaigns ran on intellect and officials would be forced to be better informed themselves.

Keep in mind, one can be education and ill-informed and vice versa.

By: Terri

Terri — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:19:51 +0000

Owensboro has a real need for education and for the job opportunities that go along with it. I have hopes that the WKU satellite campus will help this. Sustainable growth and *smart* downtown development are integral. In the past few months, Darmac, HON, and GE have all announced layoffs/closures, with more than I remember even before these. People are hurting, big time.

By: Davi

Davi — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:05:27 +0000

We in the Commonwealth of Kentucky need a campaign to make education itself more attractive and acceptable in general. Part of the reason we are so far behind the rest of the country and much of the world is that a large percentage of our populace thinks education is to be suspect rather than sought.

Until we get a positive attitude toward education, we will always be barefoot and pregnant.

The key to improving the future of the state is in breaking this barrier.