Columns

FRANKFORT – Other than during a rare boil-water advisory, most of us don’t think twice when we turn on the faucet. We just expect clean and plentiful water to be there.

For about 95 percent of Kentuckians, that’s exactly what we get each and every day from the 400-plus public and community water systems that serve the commonwealth.  These systems meet or exceed health-based standards at an incredible rate of 99.73 percent.

The hustle and bustle of the winter holidays is well underway and the cool crispness of the autumn air is turning towards winter frost. Even as the weather changes and the holiday season comes upon us, we are still busy in Frankfort with interim joint committee meetings as well as planning for the 2017 Session of the General Assembly.

For nearly a century, our nation has paused on Nov. 11th to pay tribute to our veterans.  From the era of George Washington to now, this select group of men and women has unfailingly protected us here at home while sacrificing so much to promote and preserve freedom abroad.

As I sit here in my office preparing to write November’s column, it is Oct. 31—Halloween. Not only is it the last day of October, but, more importantly, it is the first day of November. I was pondering this weekend, all the things that I will be doing with my family over the next month.