Dr. Frank Simon

By Z. E. Kendall In this legislative session, the Kentucky state legislature is crafting its two-year budget. Now, according to the Consensus Forecasting Group, Kentucky state government has a projected shortfall of $156 million in the mid-2025 to mid-2026 fiscal year out of its $16 billion state budget. In other words, Kentucky is on track to fall short of a balanced budget by 1%. This is a slight improvement versus the expected 2% ($305 million) shortfall. On KET, Gov. Andy Beshear said...

By Z. E. Kendall In recent years, the Kentucky state legislature has made efforts to enhance our election security. For example, back in 2024, there were two key election security bills. The first bill was a voter roll clean up bill, and the second was a bill to put an amendment on the ballot to ban non-citizens from voting in state and local elections. Both of those passed. Now, back in 2020, SB2 got passed which was marketed as a bill to help our election security. That law was originally...

As part of the January Kentucky Family Association Volunteer meeting and presentation we covered the agenda behind the Genesis Mission Executive order. There is more to understanding it, than you might be aware of. What has our government done for us lately? If the Genesis Mission Federal Executive Order really prohibits states legislating Artificial Intelligence for the next 10 years, we want to get a response from our legislature about that, so we sent the Kentucky Artificial Intelligence...