On Feb. 24, I was heading north on Highway 127 to Frankfort when I saw three black SUVs with gold ICE insignias speeding south towards Lawrenceburg. For the rest of the week, Anderson County Facebook feeds were lit up with photographs and warnings: ICE is here.
Some of the photos looked like AI and were from unrecognizable accounts, but it did not matter. Panic set in, and panic stayed.
I thought about this on March 5 as I watched state Sen. Stephen Meredith on the Senate floor, encouraging his colleagues to vote yes on Senate Bill 137, allowing physicians who are licensed in another country to obtain a provisional license to practice medicine in the commonwealth. “We have a physician shortage crisis,” Meredith said, in the United States and more particularly in rural Kentucky. “It is projected that by 2030 we will have a shortage of 3,000 physicians in Kentucky.”
You can read more about SB 137 and the senate floor debate here…