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Why no seat for taxpayers on new pension board?

A quasi-government group’s response to Gov. Andy Beshear’s signature of legislation creating a separate board for the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) – which covers local government workers and classified school personnel – illustrates the wrong-headed mindset at the heart of all of Kentucky pension woes.

The thing about writers is that we are always writing.  Whether in story, book or song form, there is always something to say.

Since I am trying to “stay healthy at home,” at times I have not had an ingredient needed to make a recipe. However, the internet provided good information about substitute cooking ingredients. And these ingredients can work.

There are so many little things I’d forgotten to notice that I am noticing these days.  I watched that Disney Sing Along on ABC a few days ago.  I was in the house alone, and I found myself singing at the top of my lungs.  They had the Mouseketeer ears bouncing across the lyrics on the screen like the famous bouncing ball on “Sing Along With Mitch.”  “When You Wish Upon a Star” was my

Am I the only one who has noticed how much of life has become unsettled? Maybe it has always been this way, and my mind has not grasped it until now. We sing, “On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.”  Could truer words be said or sung today? Perhaps things are going at a faster speed than they used to? I am not sure. I think about how this year started. It seems like every day there is something different that requires our attention because it is vital to us. Do we remember the impeachment of our President?

I’ve done several weeks of Zoom with my Sunday School class and I like it.  Granted, there are still some things that I’m figuring out.  These include simple things like turning the audio and video on.  It’s no big deal.  It’s just tapping a button but you’d think that it’s all done for you.  It’

A pandemic changes things. Merriam-Webster explained ‘pandemic’ as “an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pandemic).

Hometown Character

Third-grade math is kicking my butt.  I have been trying to keep my granddaughter, Sabria, on track, while she figures the area and perimeter of polygons, and I am nearly blind from counting, measuring and figuring those little suckers on her computer screen.  It doesn’t seem to bother Sabria, who figures everything in her head.  I figure on paper in order to check her work—she occasionally adds two numbers together wrong.  I try to get her to use a pencil and paper, and she will for a little while, just to appease me.  I heard a celebrity s