Today's Opinions

This week staff artist Paul Coyle takes a look at rising gas prices.

Congratulations to the city of Shepherdsville. And congratulations to the people of Bullitt County.

For the past couple of years, many meetings have been held between officials with the city and Jim Beam Brands.

The city was looking for a partner to help expand its sewer treatment plant and the international distiller wanted to take its package treatment plant off-line.

After some ticklish moments when the multi-million project appeared dead, the partnership appears to be back together and moving forward.

The state legislature felt that the current CATS assessment was not the best way to further education reform in Kentucky.

The majority decided that there should be a better system of making sure students in the commonwealth are excelling.

If all the promises are kept, there will not be a problem. Officials have pledged to not take the foot off the accelerator.

If the Think Link assessments are correct, Bullitt County will see major improvement in test scores this fall. More importantly, student learning has been improved.