KY Attorney General upholds Juvenile Justice Department’s denial of records request
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky Attorney General’s Office recently ruled in favor of the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) regarding its denial of additional records requested by Herald-Leader journalist...
Announcing the Sunshine Law Library
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Kentucky Sunshine Law Library in celebration of the fifth year anniversary of Kentucky Open Government Coalition. Our coalition’s founding goes back to March...
OP-ED: New Policies Will Provide Long-Term Help with Property Tax Hike
Like so many of you, I received a notice this week that the assessment of our house is going up — way up. But, unlike many Lexingtonians, I wasn’t...
Lextran budget decision sparks community outcry – gathering scheduled for Wednesday, April 24
via press release from BUILD UPDATE: The Director of Lextran, Fred Combs, has informed us (BUILD) that the Board of Directors will be voting on the full $75,000 allocation...
The 2024 Kentucky General Assembly Was the Most Regressive for Criminal Legal System Policies in Recent Memory
Republished from Kentucky Center for Economic Policy More than any legislative session in recent memory, the 2024 Kentucky General Assembly doubled down on harmful policies that will result in...
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...
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...
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...
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...