Last December, during one of our Saturday morning walks, my lovely wife brought up the topic of our New Year’s resolutions. For fear of being placed in the dreaded cone of silence for the remainder of 2019, I will not tell you of Tina’s objectives for 2019. After listening to her “self-improvement plan” for the […]
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Ken Rechtin’s Another Voice: NKY School Districts are Jim Crow-Like, Apartheid-Like
This morning, there are a lots of thoughts running through my head. They are thoughts about our local school districts, apartheid, the Southgate School, Jim Crow Laws, equality and efficiency. Let’s begin with a history of this building at 215 Southgate Avenue, Newport, Kentucky which sits in the parking lot of Hoffbrauhaus. This building (pictured below) […]
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Ken Rechtin’s Another Voice: The Number & the Cost of Low-Performing NKY Schools
Needless to say I have received numerous emails comments and phone calls about my column regarding the ranking and performance of our 14 NKY School Districts. Just last week I received the following email from Alexandria Mayor Bill Rachford: Ken, I brought up the same topic at the Mayor’s Meeting (a meeting held in conjunction with a Campbell […]
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Ken Rechtin’s Another Voice: Bevin’s Victory Chant is Not a Good Start
Was I surprised by the election results from last Tuesday? No, not really… all of the “undecided” Republicans went to the polls and voted their straight Republican ticket! (What did surprise me was that “the gold standard” of Kentucky political polling, The Bluegrass Poll, predicted that the other guy would win! On October 28, it reported that […]
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Ken Rechtin’s Another Voice: On Election Day, Don’t Vote for the Party
About two weeks ago “Another Voice” readers had the opportunity to reply to a short poll measuring their choices in the upcoming gubernatorial election. The respondents self-identified as either Democrat, Republican, Libertarian or Independent. They then choose who they were going to vote for in the fall election. They could choose Republican Matt Bevin, Democrat Jack Conway, independent […]
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Listen: Memo Shows Senior Services Recognized Emergency a Month Before Announcing Closure
The surprising announcement that Senior Services of Northern Kentucky would close on Friday followed a memo from the agency’s executive director dated September 18, 2015, a month before Monday’s news, stated that adjustments would be made to put SSNK on a path to be sustainable for decades to come. The River City News obtained this internal […]
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Ken Rechtin’s Another Voice: Campbell Co. Political Rumors & Predictions in the Governor’s Race!
This week’s column has a little something for everyone. If you are a public policy wonk, there is a follow-up discussion on other solutions to our inefficient common school system. If you like political rumors, I offer you another slice of “Rumor Has It” to feed your addiction. If you are interested in this fall’s […]
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Ken Rechtin’s Another Voice: Can You Defend the Number of School Districts Here?
During my 21 years elected public services, nine as a Newport Commissioner and twelve as a Campbell County Commissioner, I learned that there are two types of issues that will bring the public out in force to voice their opinions at a meeting: Anything that affects private property rights, values and uses (like land use or property […]
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Ken Rechtin’s Another Voice: Time to Close Some School Districts
I want to begin this week’s column with a big shout out “Thank you!” to Senator Damon Thayer (R-Georgetown) and Senator Chris Girdler (R-Somerset). I was struggling with the “lead in” to this week’s Another Voice and the senators have helped me out! In their recent opinion column, published in The River City News, the senators […]
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Ken Rechtin’s Another Voice: About that Anti-Needle Exchange Column…
I read with great interest Senator John Schickel’s opinion of clean needle exchange. As a conservative, he feels that the role of government in public health is a mixed bag of good and bad results. Into his argument he throws everything but the kitchen sink! To hear him tell it, the extermination of the Jews, the threat to […]