Today's Opinions

Certainly no one, including me, discounts the important and difficult work our sanitation crews do to keep our city clean and healthy.

I recently learned that firsthand one morning when I showed up to work at 4:45 a.m. at the Sanitation Department. It just so happened that they were one person short that day. I tried to fill that spot, but may have been more of a hindrance to them. I had a lot to learn in a short amount of time.

We hung on to the rails on the back of the truck in spite of the dark, cold and rainy morning.

Some of the customers I sell to, I get to be friends with. The other day, I called on one that had just gotten out of the hospital.

I sat a spell while he told me about his ordeal in the hospital and his brush with death. I thought it was worth repeating. It reminded me that prayer is the greatest healer and lives can be changed with it. I hope I can do this story justice, as I’m writing from my memory alone.

I was surprised at how well he was able to put his thoughts and feelings into words so soon after that kind of ordeal.

As we move rapidly into the final eight days of this short session, the General Assembly has come to a major turning point.

As many of you know, Kentucky faces an immense unfunded liability in our public employee pension system.