Annexation concerns valid

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Annexation concerns valid

We would like to remind John Soper, chair of the Woodford County Economic Development Authority, that less than half of the plaintiffs in the suits against annexation of Edgewood Farm are Thoroughbred farm owners.

Those farms have been purchased at premium prices, then had millions more poured into them for improvements. They provide significant portions of Woodford County’s revenues through property taxes and payroll taxes, plus the services they buy, the goods and services purchased by their employees and the tourism they attract.

Despite the arguments in his commentary, there is no opposition to a new hospital nor an industrial/agricultural complex. There would be strong support if these projects were on land already within the Urban Service Boundary.

The suits were filed because the plaintiffs believe the city and the Planning and Zoning Commission acted illegally and inappropriately in approving the annexation and rezoning.

We own no farm property. Over 20 years ago, after working as teachers in Michigan, we retired to beautiful Woodford County. We can't imagine a better place to live.

If you want to truly appreciate Woodford County, visit the Metro Detroit area, It was also once beautiful .

Frank and Ellen Gibson

Versailles

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Cringe-o-rama: Mitch McConnell, lower standards for nursing home inspections, UK shoe fetish, us. Us?

By Herald-Leader readers

February 15, 2019 04:51 PM

Cringe-worthy McConnell

In opinion pieces in the Herald-Leader and on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Mitch McConnell has opposed the Democratic Party’s legislation to reform the methods states use for electing members of Congress. He characterizes the bill as an unprecedented power grab by Democrats. He casts himself as a defender of the constitutional rights of state legislatures to prescribe the time, place and manner for holding elections for U.S. senators and members of the House of Representatives. He pledges that he will not let such a bill come before the Senate for a vote (as an aside, how democratic is a system based on procedures that allow one person to block a bill from being considered by the full Senate?).

As a retired University of Kentucky law professor, I cringe that one of our graduates would make an argument that ignores a basic tenet of constitutional interpretation — read the whole sentence/clause. The Constitution, Article I, Section 4, states: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations...”