Oh, Kentucky

This would be a good opening sentence to something: Sixty years ago, the crooks spared just one thing when they robbed the Golden Rocket out on U.S. 62: the juke box.

Site for IBM plant at New Circle Rd (E to W) and Newtown Pike, Aug. 1956. Now @lexmark HQ More http://t.co/oWWk4jhTRx pic.twitter.com/uB8YWKVNcb
— KY Photo Archive (@KYPhotoArchive) July 23, 2014

Bad jobs news from Whitesburg.

More Kentucky kids live in poverty than a quarter century ago.

Cumberland, Hindman, Lexington and Louisville are raking in some federal dough to improve their livability and place arts at their cores.

Forthcoming from eastern Kentucky: "a different picture about this region’s quality of life, progress and hope."

Does northern Bullitt County want a hospital or not?

Stay off the Brookport Bridge!

Murray State's new prez, who moved from eastern Oregon, is taking a look around Paducah. Maybe he'll go on the Red-Line Tour. We went on the Red-Line Tour almost immediately when we moved to Paducah in 1973.

Tiger's retiring, and he's passing along some parting advice (via Shelbyville's Sentinel-News): "Somewhere along the way I found what was truly important. I encourage everyone to take time to enjoy the relationships that are built over the course of one’s career."

The Mustangs and UK-bound-quarterback Zy'aire Hughes will wait another week to open at Tilghman, but many KHSAA football teams start the new season Aug. 22.

New top of my YouTube wish list: Spectacle in Taylorsville, 1974.

Rock on, (Mount Sterling's own!) Rev. Brandon Gilvin.