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By Teddy Edmonds
State Representative
D-Jackson
Week of June 1, 2010 
 
FRANKFORT — It took a special session, and the first Saturday meeting since I joined the legislature, but we finally have a budget and a road plan for our commonwealth.
In the end, it’s not a budget that any of us are happy with, because we all have programs [...]

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By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative – D-Jackson
Week of May 24, 2010 – FRANKFORT — We’re back at the Capitol this week, after the governor called a special session to deal with the budget situation. After House and Senate leaders couldn’t agree on a plan to address the need of our people [...]

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By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative – D-Jackson
Week of May 3, 2010
FRANKFORT — One last update on what we accomplished during our 2010
Regular Session, and then I’ll give things a rest until our special session on the budget, which the governor says he intends to call sometime later this month.
There are two [...]

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By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative – D-Jackson

Week of April 26, 2010 – FRANKFORT — I want to update you on a few more bills that were signed into law by the governor and will take effect on July 15. They may not get the big headlines, but they will be impor6tant to [...]

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By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative – D-Jackson
Week of April 19, 2010
FRANKFORT — Leaving the Capitol without a budget plan for the next two
years was an awful way to end the week, and there’s no excuse for it. The governor will surely call us back into special session in May, and [...]

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By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative
D-Jackson  
 
FRANKFORT — This will be the last week for the 2010 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly. We’ll meet at the Capitol on Wednesday and possibly again on Thursday, and then we’re constitutionally mandated to adjourn. I’m cautiously optimistic that House and Senate leaders will be able to work [...]

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By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative
D-Jackson  Week of April 5, 2010  
 
FRANKFORT — It was a bitter disappointment that House and Senate leaders couldn’t arrive at a compromise plan for
our two-year state budget last week. We had hoped to have a plan to vote on Friday, but the gap was just too great to close in [...]

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By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative – D-Jackson  – Week of March 29, 2010 
FRANKFORT — Hopefully by the time you read this, House and Senate leaders will have developed a compromise plan on our two-year state budget. As it stands right now, however, there are still some issues left on the table for them. It [...]

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By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative – D-Jackson – Week of March 22, 2010 
 
FRANKFORT — We’re now in our last full week of the 2010 Regular Session, and it promises to be a busy one. The budget, road plan, domestic violence legislation, education initiatives — so many issues left to reach a final consensus on, [...]

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By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative – D-Jackson
Week of March 15, 2010
FRANKFORT — It’s never easy to write the state budget, even in good times, because there are always more needs than we have money. This year has been by far the most difficult for our leaders and budget committee to design a state spending [...]