The deca-billionaires in your community
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...
‘Gay Poems for Red States’ really for everyone
No matter how hard the viewer strains to see the shadowy face obscured by the words, “Gay Poems for Red States,” the silhouette on the front cover of this...
MLK: abandoned north-south connector
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...
No, America isn’t great. And, yes, many Biden voters know it
Briefly, ever so briefly, one man had me thinking that Donald Trump could win back the presidency. He wasn’t a political scientist crunching data to unveil a Republican path...
Privacy worries a smokescreen for hiding the public’s business
A bill that emerged from a House committee would allow officials to hide public business on their personal devices. FRANKFORT — Long before there were text messages, email, cell...
Expert amplification and biking Limestone
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...
Veto of mass incarceration bill gives Kentucky supermajority a shot at redemption
FRANKFORT — As I sort through the remains of this session, I keep returning to something I’ve heard said, only half-jokingly, about Kentucky: We waited until after the Civil...
More repair work on $85 million Town Branch Commons
North of Center Don’t tell the awards judges for the American Society of Landscape Architects or the Federal Highway Administration, but Lexington’s award-winning Town Branch Commons is undergoing repairs...
The CentrePointe TIF zone generated $1.27 million in 2022 local taxes. LFUCG could only collect $300,000.
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...
Taking stock one year after a bank staff meeting was turned into a bloodbath
April 10 marks one year since a mentally unstable 25-year-old walked into Old National Bank in Louisville and shot five people to death — Thomas Elliott, James Tutt Jr.,...
