
John Calipari's home on Richmond Road in Lexington. Fayette PVA
North of Center John Calipari arrived to Lexington from Memphis on an 8 year, $34.65 million contract to coach the University of Kentucky boys basketball team, the pride of...
North of Center I attended the University of Kentucky for seven years during the early Aughts while earning my PhD in American Literature. At the time, the school was...

A recent CivicLex graphic on public safety depicts an ambulance with its siren ablaze. CivicLex recently received a $95,000 city contract. CivicLex
North of Center With the “local news and reporting” nonprofit set to receive a $95,000 city contract to audit local boards and commissions, why have local journalists kept quiet...
North of Center I have enjoyed reading The Frankfort Power Brokers, the multi-article introduction by the Herald Leader‘s Austin Horn to 15 unelected power-brokers who “play a major role...

City Hall from MLK. [The Lexington Times]
North of Center Previously, I wrote about the $17 million South Limestone road improvement project of 2010, which included pedestrian, bike, utility and sewer upgrades. Completed in time for...
North of Center I have written previously on elite projection, transit planner Jarett Walker’s term for the “belief, among relatively fortunate and influential people, that what those people find...
North of Center CP docs provide concrete costs to opaque TIF contracts and the civic process for enacting them Never heard of a TIF? No worries. TIFs are among...
North of Center In 2022, the city of Lexington paid $940,000 to Centrepointe Parking Company, LLC, a subsidiary corporation owned by Lexington developers Dudley and Donald Webb. Payment to...
North of Center Late last month, a group called Parks Sustainable Funding debuted a glitzy website that advocates for a November tax ballot referendum to let citizens vote on...

Town Branch Park under construction in early 2024. [The Lexington Times]
North of Center In 2013, after I had organized and delivered to City Council a design challenge to save the MLK Viaduct, I was told by a few lower-level...