Columns and Editorials

By Paul Hornback, State Senator

“Creating Kentucky jobs and strengthening Kentucky families” — this is how our caucus defined the overall goals of the Senate this session, and I’m proud to report that four of our priority bills to accomplish those objectives passed the Senate in our first week and are now on the way to the House.

As I sit to write this, the sun, which has been absent too many days, is shining brightly and streaming in through my window.  Just outside the window a redbird perches on a fence, taking in the brilliance of the sun and reflecting it through his red feathers.  

By today’s standards, it’s not much of a show.
There are no flashing lights, no loud, chest-thumping music and very few moving parts.
By all accounts, the annual Living Nativity in Bethlehem should be a real snooze-fest.
To the contrary, the manger scene held nightly in the little town of Bethlehem is amazingly captivating.

With the Ebola virus, as with anything, how worried you should be requires perspective.
With this week’s revelation about deadly airbags, it appears American citizens are at four times greater risk from having a fatal accident with their own vehicular safety device than dying from the outbreak of the virus that causes hemorrhagic fever.
One wag with an Internet meme referenced the danger from the disease more humorously: Country Singer Taylor Swift has broken up with more boys than Americans that suffer from Ebola.