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 Addressing Kentucky’s underfunded pension systems was the top priority in the Senate’s version of House Bill (HB) 303, the state’s two-year budget, which passed the Kentucky Senate on March 23.

The “look at me” culture is alive and well.  And it’s everywhere! I understand individuality and being unique.  These days, individuality and uniqueness is pretty much looking like you’ve looked most of your life.  I get why kids dye their hair or whatever.  They’re expressing their individuality.  Read this next paragraph carefully.

On Easter Sunday, my family and I will attend church services and then gather for lunch. Easter is an important day for Christians even though people celebrate Jesus’s resurrection in a variety of ways.

If you want to discover things about your husband you never knew, put him in a dress and heels, apply makeup and add a wig, and another person will appear before you whom you never knew existed. 

When Jesus called His followers together, He stated, “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matt. 6:19-21). This passage demands some serious thought and examination (II Cor. 13:5). Friend, where is your treasure? If you are not sure, please read Matthew 6:19-21 again.

Reality television is a fad that just won’t die.  I wouldn’t buy in for a long time.  Everyone was in on American Idol.  I just couldn’t or wouldn’t get into it.  After a few years, I started watching a few of these shows sporadically.  I watched a season or two of Idol, realizing how cheesy the show is.  Then I watched a few episodes of America’s Got Talent.  I even sent in an audition via YouTube.  Nothing ever came of it. 

Recently, I overheard a conversation about finalizing vacation destinations. Although I don’t enjoy lengthy away-from-home vacations, several places still tempt me. Like many people, there are places I’d like to see.

There were times on the American Frontier a rider would tell how he dived from his saddle an instant before a bullet or an arrow struck a tree limb close beside his ear.
According to the dictionary the word, intuition, is described as the ability to see or to know things without our conscious reasoning over and above our commonly known five senses.
Probably we’ve all sensed someone looking at us, only to look up and see a person immediately turn his or her head.

I learned in a play-writing class once that the most boring thing you can see on stage are two people saying wonderful things about one another.  I just want you to be fore-warned that this column may bore you, because I plan on telling you some good things about some good people I came in to contact with this week.

Not only did Friday mark the end to another busy week in the Kentucky Senate, it also was day 46 of our 60-day legislative session. We are now in the proverbial “fourth quarter” when the House and the Senate must come together to get a victory for the state of Kentucky by passing a responsible budget. After 10 weeks we are still awaiting a key “assist” from our colleagues in the House in the form of a budget bill that has yet to pass the lower chamber.