Oh, Kentucky

Nation's most affordable vacation? Louisville.

Best of the Road? Paducah?

"We are no longer just 'the newspaper.'"

She's no longer with the newspaper at all.

Programs in Hopkinsville and Madisonville are recommended for replication in discouraging obesity.

"All bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon."

Rising through the ranks in Providence: from Monk's, to Ruth and Bob's Cafe and now "Paula'z."

Meanwhile, in Muhlenberg County, Hobby's Classic Foods--owned by a couple from Bremen--has taken its frog-leg baskets from Central City to Greenville.

Good jobs news from Leitchfield. Reassuring from Grahn and Soldier ... Augusta, Dover, Elizaville, Foster, Georgetown, Hillsboro, May's Lick, Milford, Minerva, Mount Olivet, Muses Mill, Plummer's Landing, Qunicy and Washington ...

The recovery continues in West Liberty and Salyersville.

The Racers are getting a new gym.

Tyler Smithhart is moving home to Henderson County, and that means Christian County will have a new head coach for the second straight season since winning the 2010 KHSAA boys' basketball title.

Kentucky's mixed success on science tests.

Oh, Kentucky

Hey, cool ... the wife of Johnny Carson's producer was a Kentuckian, from Dover and Centre College.

What do you want to know about "anything related to Lake Barkley, Kentucky Lake, Land Between the Lakes or the 7 surrounding counties"?

Good question, probably frm Nola Sizemore of the Harlan Daily Enterprise: "When asked about his vision regarding roads for Harlan County, Abramson said infrastructure is 'really important.' He said businesses won’t come to areas where they can’t get raw materials in and finished products out. 'My understanding is two sections of U.S. 421 have been finished, and a third of it is on the six-year road plan,' said Abramson. 'The commitment is to finish it — it’s time to finish it, and we’re certainly going to do everything we can to get that finished. We know it’s important for the moving of goods and services and people in and out of Harlan County.'"

This just in from Fairview!

Magic bus in Cadiz.

I would wholeheartedly support Rand Paul's resignation from the U.S. Senate to move from Bowling Green to Ludlow and bring some clear-eyed, refreshing small-government leadership to that town.

"I want my Cracker Barrel back!"

Speaking of limited government, ... they are in Grayson, Hazard and Burlington.

Here's your Heath Post Kentucky Bureau review of Battle: Los Angeles: BOO!

Boys' one and done: Sending off the Fourth Region Dragons.

Oh, Kentucky

Crittenden County coach Al Starnes likes his Rockets' Class 2A prospects in the proposed KHSAA football realignment: "There are no Mayfields in there," he told The Crittenden Press.

Healthcare reform and Powell County.

Speaking of VFDs, ...

The Executive Inn is disappearing.

In the 1950s, the Kentucky State Police trooper's work week was reduced from six 10-hour days to five 8s.

I love infrastructure.

"As is often the case in Kentucky education, there is cause for both celebration and concern," Cindy Heine, interim executive director of the Prichard Committee, said upon release of a report from the group on Kentucky's effort to move into the top 20 nationally in education by 2020.

A judge-executive candidate in Anderson County is running on a plan to bring the YMCA to Lawrenceburg.

Newspaper love from Liberty.