Regions feeling economic recovery differently, Ky. Chamber of Commerce study finds
12/29/2014 07:30 PM
Some regions of the state have flourished more than others during Kentucky’s five-year climb from the recession, with the state’s urban areas leading in employment and payroll growth while Appalachia lost more than 10 percent of its jobs and wages, according to a report by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce released Monday. Kentucky’s 11 percent growth in manufacturing jobs between June 2009, the “bottom” of the recession, and June this year was more than twice the national average of 4.2 percent,... Read more 
The Chatter: Potential GOP candidate Will T. Scott leaves bench, Gov. Beshear releases top 10 accomplishments
12/29/2014 04:57 PM
Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Will T. Scott, a rumored entrant in next year’s Republican gubernatorial primary, has resigned his seat on the state’s highest court effective midnight Friday, The Lexington Herald-Leader reports. The 67-year-old, of Pikeville, declined to say why he’s resigning, but he previously told the Herald-Leader’s Sam Youngman that he would decide whether to enter the 2015 governor’s race by the time he chopped down his Christmas tree. Scott, first elected to the 7th Supreme Court District... Read more
Helping domestic violence victims at heart of strangulation bill, sponsor says
12/28/2014 01:00 PM
State Sen. Morgan McGarvey hopes a bill he’s sponsoring in next year’s legislative session that identifies strangulation as a criminal offense will help victims of domestic violence. The bill would define strangulation as a class A misdemeanor with aggravating circumstances, such as strangling a child, threatening to use a deadly weapon or strangling a victim unconscious, upping the crime to a class D felony. Currently, strangulation is loosely defined in the state’s assault laws, said McGarvey, D-Louisville. His bill, pre-filed Nov.... Read more
If you could make a lot of bourbon whiskey these days, you could be distilling real profits. Bourbon sales in this country are up 36 percent in the past five years. But you’d need new wooden barrels for aging your new pristine product. Simple white oak barrels, charred on the inside to increase flavor and add color, are becoming more precious than the bourbon. Making these barrels is a very old craft, almost an art, called cooperage. The Scots-Irish who settled in Appalachia could do this: Cut the white oak boards into staves, steam them to bend, make metal hoops to hold [...]
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President Obama says Americans feel worse about race relations not because relations are worse, but because we’re talking about them more. Obama offered that analysis during a year-ending NPR interview. In a 40-minute talk just before he left Washington for the holidays, he gave clues to his thinking about his final two years in office. The president says he wanted 2014 to be a “breakthrough year,” when the economy would decisively improve and the nation’s toxic politics might improve too. Though the economy did grow, 2014 became another year of unexpected disasters and unplanned events. That surely contributed to the drop in [...]
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A poll released today found that most Kentuckians have heard about Kynect, the state’s online health insurance marketplace. The Kentucky Health Issues Poll found that 77 percent of adults in Kentucky have heard something about Kynect; 27 percent of adults in the state had heard a lot about the insurance marketplace. The poll was funded by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky and Interact for Health, formerly the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati. (The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is part of the partnership for WFPL’s Next Louisville: Community Health project.) The poll cites Democrats, college graduates, Lexington or Louisville residents, and registered voters as being [...]
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