Because of historically cheap energy rates and lots of poorly insulated housing, Kentuckians’ average home electricity use is one of the highest in the nation – 24 percent more than the national average. This WMMT report follows energy specialists on a home energy audit through How$martKY, a pilot program that lets homeowners and businesses make […]
This video takes a look at How$martKY, a pilot program of the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (MACED) and four rural electric cooperatives in eastern Kentucky. Bruce Davis from Big Sandy RECC and Chris Woolery from MACED conduct an energy audit of Garland and Judith Howard’s Johnson County, KY home to determine where leakage […]
The Kentucky General Assembly meets again in January and Governor Steve Beshear has made tax reform a priority for his second term in office. Jason Bailey, director of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, agrees that now is the time to address Kentucky’s long term financial woes. In this opinion piece originally published in the […]
In this election season, we’ve been hearing a lot about big government, deficits, and entitlement programs like Social Security. The Congressional “supercommittee” may end up making cuts in Social Security at the end of this month. But what does Social Security mean for folks here? A recent article in the on-line newspaper the Daily Yonder […]
