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Two out-of-state donors give very big to Beshear super PAC
FRANKFORT – Two big Andy Beshear supporters from outside Kentucky provided the lion’s share of the money donated to Beshear’s super PAC between April 1 and June 30. Beshear’s super PAC is called In This Together PAC Inc., and a report it filed Wednesday with the Internal Revenue Service shows: Ashish Patel, an investor…
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Planning Commission to discuss placemaking, downtown master plan, data center zoning
The Planning Commission will discuss placemaking initiatives, the Downtown Area Master Plan update, and a data center zoning ordinance amendment during a July 16 work session at the Phoenix Building.
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Mayoral hopeful Carter pitches housing, safety reforms
Real estate professional Raquel Carter made her case for Lexington mayoral leadership on WUKY radio, focusing on housing affordability, public safety improvements, data center development, and infrastructure resilience following the ice storm.
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Beshear certifies Meade, Pike, Wolfe as Recovery Ready Communities
Gov. Andy Beshear has certified Meade, Pike and Wolfe counties as Recovery Ready Communities, expanding addiction treatment access across Kentucky. The designation brings the total to 42 certified counties serving more than 2.2 million Kentuckians as the state continues seeing declines in overdose deaths.
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Democratic socialism is on the rise some places, but has roots in KY
Democratic socialism is on the rise in some blue states, but socialists are still rare in ruby red Republican Kentucky. That wasn’t always so. Six-score years ago, Louisville hosted the Christian Socialist Fellowship movement’s first national convention. The movement even spread to the Jackson Purchase, arguably Kentucky’s Trumpiest territory today. The CSF aimed “to…
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In 2014, Lexington voted 15-0 to bond CentrePointe’s garage with zero city liability. The bonds were never issued. The tax diversion happened anyway.
Told that Frankfort had refused to issue $30 million for CentrePointe’s parking garage, Lexington’s council stood up a brand-new bonding conduit with the Kentucky League of Cities and the city of Midway — and approved it 15-0, after bond counsel promised the city would bear no repayment risk. The Lexington Times pulled the official…
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Kentucky Reports June Employment Data; County Jobless Rates Mixed
The Kentucky Education and Labor Cabinet released June 2026 employment data showing rising joblessness in 95 Kentucky counties over the past year, while Fayette County continues to report some of the state’s lowest unemployment rates.
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Three Kentucky counties recognized among America’s best for economic growth
Three Kentucky counties—Jefferson, Mercer and Simpson—have been recognized among America’s best for economic development by Site Selection magazine, continuing Kentucky’s record-breaking economic growth under Gov. Beshear.
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Flags at Half-Mast, Murals Replaced, and Quick Coffee Builds
Lexington residents discussed flags lowered for Senator Lindsey Graham’s death, celebrated the removal of a divisive Jelly Roll mural to make way for festival art, worried about a possible Frank’s Donuts closure, and marveled at the rapid construction of a prefabricated 7 Brew location.
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In its first year, Lexington asked the state for $973,179 in Red Mile tax money. Frankfort mailed $86,918.50. The subsidy’s full ten-year ledger is now public.
The Kentucky Department of Revenue has produced the last five missing years of the Red Mile TIF’s state ledger — on the exact day it promised. The decade’s total is public for the first time: $3,197,344 paid from 2015 through 2024, after state auditors spent ten years correcting Lexington’s math, striking gamblers’ income taxes…