By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative – D-Jackson Week of March 8, 2010
FRANKFORT — House leadership revealed its plan to balance the state’s budget last week, and I feel like a lot of
legislators do. I’m not comfortable with everything that it’s in the budget bill, but it could be a whole lot worse. The same [...]
By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative
D-Jackson / Week of March 1, 2010
FRANKFORT — Only 24 days to go in our legislative session as I write this, and House leaders are fine-tuning the details on the budget they’ll present to us in the coming days. With more than $1.2 billion that needs to be cut, everything [...]
By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative – D-Jackson
Week of February 22, 2010
FRANKFORT — With the recent restoration of our State Capitol in time for its 100th birthday, many of our minds have been on history. We can learn a lot from the past if only we take the time, so I was pleased to see [...]
By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative D-Jackson
Week of February 15, 2010
FRANKFORT — This week marks the halfway point of our 2010 legislative session, and the major task before us remains the budget. We expect to see two or three options for balancing state spending with incoming revenues sometime this week, but it could be delayed [...]
Ted’s Frankfort Report / By Teddy Edmonds
State Representative / D-Jackson
FRANKFORT — With all the snow we’ve been getting lately, it can be tough staying between the lines while you’re heading down the road. Being courteous to your fellow drivers is even more difficult, even in good weather, if you’re busy texting on your cell phone. [...]
By Teddy Edmonds
State Representative
D-Jackson
Week of February 1, 2010
FRANKFORT — Every year a few bills grab all the headlines and attention, but many times the smaller bills have more effect on Kentuckians’ everyday lives. Such is the case with some bills we passed this week. I want to share them with you.
House Bill 165, which passed [...]
By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative – D-Jackson – Week of January 25, 2010
FRANKFORT — The General Assembly’s primary task every even-numbered year is to write a state budget, and we took the first step toward that goal last week when Gov. Beshear delivered his Budget Address. Unfortunately, the governor’s plan relied in part on [...]
By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative
D-Jackson – Week of January 18, 2010
FRANKFORT — It’s rare for any bill to be passed so early in our legislative session when we have so much on our plate. It’s even more rare for any bill to be passed in only five days, the minimum possible under our constitution. [...]
By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative
D-Jackson – Week of January 11, 2010
FRANKFORT — Lawmakers returned to the Capitol this past week for our 60-day budget session, which promises to be full of difficult decisions and necessary compromises.
Obviously, the state’s financial condition will get the bulk of our attention during the next few months. State economists [...]
By Teddy Edmonds
State Representative
D-Jackson
Week of December 7, 2009
FRANKFORT — The timing of the holiday season is obviously some sort of divine plan, because we end each year with a focus on our family and close friends, giving thanks for what’s important in our lives and looking ahead to what we can do better in the [...]