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Who voted to raise your taxes and protect wasteful spending?

Reduce Government Spen..., State Budget, TaxesJim WatersMay 21, 20182018 General Assembly, House Bill 200, House Bill 366 Comment

Bluegrass Beacon: Both parties scheme to soak taxpayers

Bluegrass Beacon, Reduce Government Spen..., State Budget, Taxes, PensionsJim WatersMay 19, 2018Attorney General Beshear, Gov- Matt Bevin, Senate Bill 151Comment

Bluegrass Beacon: Intimidated conservatives lose focus

Bluegrass Beacon, Reduce Government Spen..., Taxes, PensionsJim WatersApril 29, 20182018 General Assembly, Center for Open Government, charter schools, education spending, Public pension spending, Socialist Party flag, Spending increases, Tax increases, Vetoes Comment

Kentucky Wired: A long marriage to a real loser

Bluegrass Beacon, Broadband, Reduce Government Spen...Jim WatersApril 13, 2018Ashland Daily Independent, George Ford, Gov- Matt Bevin, Gov- Steve Beshear, KentuckyWiredComment

Go figure

News, Reduce Government Spen..., Smaller Government, Transparency and Accou..., Health CareRichard InnesDecember 2, 2017Drug Problems, Louisville, Reduce Government SpendingComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Embrace politically ecumenical policies

Reduce Government Spen..., Smaller Government, Transparency and Accou...Jim WatersFebruary 24, 2017Bluegrass Beacon, General Assembly Committee Votes, House Joint Resolution 35, Leader Adkins, President Stivers, Rep- Ken Fleming, Speaker HooverComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Tales of Congressman Crockett’s exploits still instruct

Reduce Government Spen..., Smaller GovernmentJim WatersJuly 27, 2016Davy Crockett, Farmer Bunce, Government charityComment

Bluegrass Institute president Jim Waters will speak @ Louisville Forum

Reduce Government Spen..., Smaller GovernmentJim WatersMay 9, 2016Comment

Bluegrass Beacon - Needed: A budget process that’s ‘for the people’

Reduce Government Spen...Jim WatersApril 13, 2016General Fund Budget, Gov- Matt Bevin, House Speaker Greg StumboComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Second chances for felons and taxpayers

Criminal Justice Reform, Reduce Government Spen..., Health CareJim WatersApril 5, 2016Expungement, Kentucky Medicaid enrollment, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Comment

Bluegrass Beacon: House GOP shows solidarity, challenges the status quo

Reduce Government Spen..., PensionsJim WatersMarch 25, 20162017-18 State Budget, Gov- Matt Bevin, Gov- Steve Beshear, House Democrats, House Republicans, Kynect, Medicaid expansion, Public PensionsComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Pension gain, budget pain

Reduce Government Spen..., PensionsJim WatersFebruary 14, 20162017-18 State Budget, Gov- Matt Bevin, KERS, KTRS, Outcomes-based funding Comments

OKI’s claim that Cincy Eastern Bypass would cost twice that of a new bridge: Wholly unsubstantiated, defies common sense

Reduce Government Spen..., TransportationJim WatersFebruary 10, 2016Brent Spence Bridge, Cincy Eastern Bypass, Gov- Matt Bevin, Joe Meyer, Mark Policinski, NKyUnited, OKI, state budgetComment

News release -- Bevin’s first budget plan: ‘Stop digging’

Reduce Government Spen...Jim WatersJanuary 27, 20162016 State Budget, 2016 State of the CommonwealthComment

Spending cuts? What spending cuts?

Reduce Government Spen...Jim WatersJanuary 12, 2016Government spending, state budgetComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Virus of secrecy infects KentuckyWired program

Reduce Government Spen..., Transparency and Accou..., Telecom ReformJim WatersOctober 9, 2015Bluegrass Beacon, Brian Mefford, Chattanooga, Connected Nation Exchange, Finance Cabinet, Gov- Steve Beshear, Government owned broadband, Kentucky Wired, Macquarie Capital, Tenn- GON projectComment

Search for new education commissioner will be costly

Education, News, Reduce Government Spen..., Transparency and Accou...Richard InnesJune 11, 2015Commissioner of Education Search, EducationComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Federal dollars subvert federalism

Federalism, Reduce Government Spen...Jim WatersApril 17, 2015Common Core State Standards, Kentucky seat-belt law, race to the topComment

Bluegrass Beacon: The seduction of states

Federalism, Reduce Government Spen...Jim WatersApril 10, 2015Federal funding to states, NInth Amendment, South Dakota v- Dole, State Budget Solutions, Tenth Amendment, Washington ExaminerComment

Broadband by bureaucrats: High costs of high-speed failure

Reduce Government Spen..., Regulation, Smaller Government, Taxes, Telecom ReformJim WatersMarch 31, 2015FCC, GON, LFUCG, UTOPIAComment