Today's Opinions

We understand that expansion of the Medicaid plan as part of the Affordable Care Act is seen as a political football, a topic to be kicked back and forth across a field of ideology with not a whole lot of regard for the players involved.

We also admit that we don’t have the sufficient grasp of either the process or economics to reinforce the decision last week by Gov. Steve Beshear to expand the rolls and open up the possibility that perhaps 300,000 more Kentuckians can have access to health insurance.

We were pleased to see that the Shelby County Board of Education will hear this week a formal proposal to provide teachers a pay raise in the coming fiscal year.

Teachers are under fire continually – as is our educational system in general, it would seem – and many of them are taking those bullets for barely enough money to make a decent living.

When I visited the Education Center @ Cropper on May 2, I chatted with a junior, Jose Menendez, about the online algebra course he was taking. He switched gears and reminded me that we first met when he was a student at Painted Stone Elementary. He vividly remembered the history lesson I shared about the Painted Stone settlement and even the rock painted red that I brought with me.

“You’re ‘Miss Bug,’ right?” he asked.

He was right.