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Bluegrass Beacon: Fearmongering fails with free-market reforms

Regulation, Telecom ReformJim WatersFebruary 10, 2017Betsy DeVos, Bluegrass Beacon, Senate Bill 10Comment

Former Kentucky Chief Justice comments on Trump's Supreme Court nominee

Criminal Justice Reform, Legal, RegulationJim WatersFebruary 1, 2017Chief Justice Joseph Lambert, Congress, Judge Antonin Scalia, Judge Neil Gorsuch, U-S- ConstitutionComment

Bluegrass Beacon -- Regulating’s first rule: Help, don’t harm

RegulationJim WatersOctober 16, 2016Clean Water Act, Competitive Enterprise Institute, EPA, EpiPen, FDA, Gov- Mitch Daniels, KARS, Mercatus Center, Sen- Rand Paul, U-S- Code of RegulationsComment

Bluegrass Beacon – Overtime rules: Swan song in ‘fairness’ fiasco

RegulationJim WatersSeptember 30, 2016Bevin lawsuit, Overtime rulesComment

Bluegrass Beacon - Medicaid reform: Compassionate or cruel?

Regulation, Health CareJim WatersAugust 13, 2016Medicaid expansion, Medicaid funding, ObamaCare Comment

Bluegrass Beacon - Free employers: Reduce regulatory cesspool

Economic Revival, RegulationJim WatersAugust 6, 2016CNBC America's Top States for Business, Maurice McTigue, Red Tape ReductionComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Unions’ wage-hike hypocrisy reaches dizzying heights

RegulationJim WatersJuly 10, 2016AFL-CIO, American Action Forum, Ben Gitis, Bernie Sanders, Clemens & Wither, HB 278, Hillary Clinton, Los Angeles City Council, minimum wage, Speaker Greg StumboComment

Ky. cities must not follow Austin on ousting Uber

RegulationJim WatersJune 27, 2016ArtPrize, Austin TX, Grand Rapids Mich-, Shared economy, Taxicab industry, UberComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Regulatory chickens now roosting in coal country

Energy, Labor, RegulationJim WatersJune 27, 2016American Action Forum, barack obama, Cecil Roberts, coal, EPA regulation, Highland Mine, Patriot Coal, UMWAComment

Bluegrass Beacon - Bathrooms to broadband: Government control is out of control

Broadband, Federalism, RegulationJim WatersJune 17, 2016FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, KentuckyWired, Obama's school bathroom policy, SOAR, Tenth AmendmentComment

Bluegrass Beacon - Detangling hair-braiding rules: Detour averted

RegulationJim WatersMay 2, 20162016 General Assembly, Gov- Matt Bevin, Hair braiding regulations, Rep- Hubert Collins, Rep- Reginald Meeks, Sen- Perry ClarkComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Send proposed public-private legislation down the road

Regulation, TransportationJim WatersFebruary 20, 2016Brent Spence Bridge, East End Bridge, Joe Meyer, NKy United, Orange Co- Riverside Freeway, Public-private partnerships, Rep- Leslie Combs, TollsComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Tear down Ky’s occupational licensing walls

RegulationJim WatersAugust 14, 2015Institute for Justice, Kentucky auctioneers, Military spouses, White House licensing reportComment

Bluegrass Institute statement on proposal to raise Lexington's minimum wage

Labor, RegulationJim WatersJune 15, 2015Brian Strow, Lexington Forum, minimum wage, Ph-D-, Seattle's minimum wage Comment

Bluegrass Bullet: May we take your teen's job, please?

Labor, RegulationJim WatersJune 9, 2015Dr- Brian Strow, minimum wage, Youth employmentComment

Bluegrass Beacon: ‘If the EPA can do this, what can’t it do?’

RegulationJim WatersJune 5, 2015Bluegrass Beacon, Brian Deese, CWA, EPA, Gina McCarthy, Kentucky Farm Bureau, Sen- Mitch McConnell, WOTUSComment

LTE: Broadband building best left to private companies

Regulation, Smaller Government, Telecom ReformJim WatersMarch 31, 2015Elaina Waters, GON, Lexington Herald-Leader, LTEComment

Broadband by bureaucrats: High costs of high-speed failure

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

Bluegrass Beacon: Free-market ‘Bizarros’ attack company’s property rights during beer-policy debate

RegulationJim WatersMarch 17, 2015Anheuser-Busch, Beer distribution regulations, Bluegrass Beacon, House Bill 168, Private property rightsComment

Liberty’s boosters & busters, courtesy of the Kentucky Legislature

Media, Reduce Government Spen..., Regulation, UncategorizedJim WatersMarch 8, 2015Antiquated telecom regulations, Bluegrass Beacon, Deregulation, ElectionsComment