Herald-Leader editorial calls for Bluegrass Area Development District transparency

Transparency efforts seem to be a theme in Kentucky as of late. I, for one, like this trend and hope that it continues.

The Lexington Herald-Leader's editorial page called for Auditor Adam Edelen to look into the spending practices of the Bluegrass Area Development District. I don't know many specifics about their reasoning other than what they outline in the editorial. I will say though, that if there is a taxpayer funded entity not responding to open records requests, that is a problem.

I'm in favor of any call for transparency regarding taxpayer money. Now if we could only get calls for the pension system to be transparent...