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How FCPS Got Here: The Liggins Crisis, Traced Back
Sometime around mid-July, Attorney General Russell Coleman’s office is due to answer a question that sounds procedural: did the Fayette County Board of Education violate Kentucky’s Open Meetings Act on June 10, when it emerged from a two-and-a-half-hour closed session and unanimously suspended Superintendent Demetrus Liggins with pay? Liggins filed his appeal June 30;…
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Gorton Proposes $546 Million Lexington Budget With No Tax Increases, Eyes Ice Storm Overhaul and New Police Tech
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Mayor Linda Gorton unveiled a $546 million General Fund budget Tuesday that she says holds the line on taxes and spending while pumping $5.1 million into a top-to-bottom overhaul of the city’s storm-response operations — an acknowledgment that last winter’s ice debacles demanded more than a new snow plan. The proposal,…