Today's Opinions

To the editor:
I attended the Board of Education Candidate Forum hosted Sept. 25 by the Oldham County Republican Party.
Although I was not involved in the forum, I feel compelled to clarify facts and figures discussed at the forum.
The following information is available on the district’s website or via open records requests:
• Oldham County Schools has one assistant superintendent.

It’s election season — and that means campaigns are making confetti out of data. 
Because no matter your argument, there’s always a statistic to back it up. 
Take, for instance, elections for the Oldham County Board of Education — a pivotal race that could drastically alter the course of Oldham County Schools. 
Numbers have been flying around like monkeys in the Wizard of Oz. 
During a candidate forum Sept. 25, Division 3 candidate Gary Gibson cited a number of statistics that have been fact-checked since the forum. 

To the editor:
In the Sept. 27 edition of The Oldham Era, a candidate for Commonwealth Attorney ran an ad regarding local attorneys’ support of Courtney Baxter for Commonwealth Attorney.
The candidate asks, in his ad, “What do they expect to receive in return?”
As past-president and 30-year member of the local bar association, the former head of the Public Defenders Office, contributing member of the committee that wrote the local rules for civil and criminal practice, and Courtney Baxter supporter, I can answer that question.