Today's Opinions

Welcome to life on the Shepherdsville City Council. And, by the way, in your first six weeks in office, you have a multi-million dollar project to decide upon.

And, worse than that, the decision is worth a whole lot more than simply an expansion and upgrade of your sewer infrastructure.

For nearly a year, Shepherdsville officials have been talking with various entities.

Jim Beam Distillery in Clermont has its own package sewer treatment plant. Under the proposal, the company would give up its plant and hook up to the city’s expanded system.

Although the General Assembly did not meet last week because of the Presidents’ Day holiday and a four-day recess, the halls of the Capitol were anything but quiet.

Many of the House and Senate committees took this time to debate bills likely to come up before we complete the 2009 Regular Session next month.

On Wednesday, for example, the House’s Judiciary Committee voted in favor of legislation that would keep judges from granting shock probation to those who have been convicted of killing someone while driving under the influence.

Madison Brady is a fourth grade student at St Joseph Elementary in Bardstown.

We first met when I was in Betty Carol Riley’s classroom last fall talking about America’s system of government – a Representative Democracy.

Madison listened closely, especially when I said that any of them could come up and be a Page in the Capitol during a legislative session.