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 while still [...]
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 [...]
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 thousands, [...]
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 hopefully [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]