New Agenda for Kentucky Task Force Members presented Gov. Steve Beshear with a copy of "Great Ideas for Kentucky" last week. From left, Danny Murphy (Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs), Ann McBrayer (Kentucky Eagle Beer), Beshear, Task Force Chairman Craig Grant (PNC Bank), Joan Coleman (AT&T Kentucky) and Rene True (Connect Kentucky).

New Agenda focuses on "Great Ideas for Kentucky"

Improving education. Saving energy. Promoting healthy living. Reducing crime. These were among the ideas Kentuckians submitted in 2007 in an effort to make the Commonwealth a better place to live and work.

“Great Ideas for Kentucky” is a compilation of 100 of the best ideas submitted to the New Agenda for Kentucky project through this Web site and community meetings held around the state. More than 400 ideas were submitted during the six-month process. In addition to the list of 100, the New Agenda for Kentucky Task Force developed five themes that could transform the Commonwealth:

  1. Preparing Kentucky to successfully compete in the global marketplace
  2. Improving the education attainment of Kentuckians at all levels
  3. Expanding Kentucky’s role as an energy leader
  4. Promoting wellness and healthy Kentuckians
  5. Modernizing government at all levels

Click here to download “Great Ideas for Kentucky." Click here to read Gov. Steve Beshear's statement regarding the project.
 
 
 
 
Kentucky would benefit from more flexibility in adult education and making it more readily available at the secondary and postsecondary levels. The state also needs to maximize tourism, especially in the areas of historic, recreational and "green" tourism.

-Wayne Martin, Gray Television, Inc.

 
Kentucky should "continue to strive for improvements and funding for educational programming, support growth in the manufacturing sector of the economy and promote the clean coal technology development to assure Kentucky's coal usage."
 
- Tim Mosher, Kentucky Power
 

Click the icon below to download a PDF version of "Great Ideas for Kentucky"