Monday Last Week Catch-up
President Obama, in between swearings-in, made a fine speech about a new era of responsibility and no longer putting off difficult decisions. For five minutes, however, he proclaimed conservative ideas dead, saying those who cared about the size of government were cynics who were putting forth stale political arguments and failing to notice the ground moving beneath their feet, and that it is a common good if the government extends the prosperity of the prospering to the non-prospering.
The former leadership of the Bluegrass Airport is now officially under criminal investigation. Some employees working in departments managed by relatives, in violation of airport nepotism policies, resigned.
Kentucky's colleges are only now trying to help establish statewide standards, for high schools at least, in an effort to reduce remediation, and Governor Patton is now the chair of CPE, still trying to implement the changes he put through the legislature in 1997.
Sen. Jack Westwood has put forward legislation to allow home-schooled children to participate in public scool sports, a la Tim Tebow.
Some businesses in downtown Lexington are fighting modern parking meters. One the one hand, they take credit cards, making it easier to pay (and easier to jack-up prices). On the other, it's farther from your car and a little more confusing. See what you think.
