Oh, Kentucky

"The retail apocalypse is media hype," the Kentucky Oaks Mall property manager tells Channel 6.

Madisonville's new mayor says the old administration overspent the city's budgeted restaurant-tax proceeds in the fiscal year's first six months.

Charting R&D investment at UK.

Nicholasville's Movie Tavern has new owners, and Cheryl Truman in the Lexington Herald-Leader details some of the changes that are reportedly afoot.

Berea's Kentucky Center for Public Policy, on Real Legislature: "Especially at a time when Kentucky can’t afford to pay for school buses, school facilities improvements, textbooks and other instructional materials, the legislature should reject proposals to hand over tens of millions of dollars, growing to hundreds of millions over time, to private schools."