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State Budget
Our governor, in his wisdom and having been given absolute line-item veto by the foot-dragging legislature, has left $10 million in the state budget to build a pharmacy school at the private, Baptist-run University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg. This is the same school that recently expelled a student for being gay. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, the money was left in the budget “partially because Eastern Kentucky needs pharmacists.” “Partially?”
State senator Daniel Mongiardo has pointed out that the building for a rural pharmacy program and the beginnings of such a program already are in place at the University of Kentucky’s Center for Rural Health in Hazard. Fletcher also cut $4.9 million for the expansion and renovation of a nursing school building at Kentucky State University in Frankfort. And he cut nearly $30 million from the budget of Morehead State, which also serves Eastern Kentucky. Ten million of that was to go for student housing, and having had a son live in MSU dorms, I know that the university is desperate for decent student housing. Altogether, of the $370 million in cuts Fletcher made to the budget, over $300 million was taken from the budgets of state universities.
But we still have $10 million for a private school that expells gays.
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