Oh, Kentucky

Dateline Future City and Marion!

Kentucky tourism folk are hoping to capitalize on History Channel's hit on Hatfields & McCoys miniseries. Pikeville is poised. University Press of Kentucky is already succeeding. "Thank you Kevin Costner," yesterday Tweeted John P. Hussey, director of sales and marketing.

Good jobs news from Lawrenceburg and both Grayson and Grayson County.

A new business model in Florence.

A big boost for iHigh.com in Lexington. 

A pullback for Big Sandy near Louisa.

Repurposing in Paintsville.

Health-insurance reform in Trigg County.

Public transportation in Radcliff. 

Law and order in Hopkins County.

MSU-Paducah.

Whether you come from one of our urban centers or our rural areas, Kentuckians are proud of their heritage and their home state.

I love every creek and branch and spring, and all the hills and valleys of Adair County. And after having seen all the best parts of the West and South-west, as well as much of the North and East, I want to say, here and now, there is no part of America more beautiful than Adair County.

... (H)e decided just to let the other guy have it because he didn’t want to go anywhere.

Rest in peace, Ms. Henson, “a big promoter of the arts in Danville before being a promoter of the arts in Danville was cool.”

Oh, Kentucky

The best part is that they wouldn't identify their fishing spot.

USA Today expects UK's Enes Kanter and Brandon Knight and Morehead State's Kenneth Faried to all be among the first-round selections in Thursday's NBA draft. Kentucky's 2007 Mr. Basketball (a Hilltopper) is hoping for good news, too.

Re-imagining Henderson.

Rerouting Aurora and Canton.

Tom Butler's current gig.

Dateline Future City.

A melancholy sentence from Bowling Green.

Oh, Kentucky

From a lift-morale perspective, I'm not so sure that "New Plant To Hire 148" would be as good of jobs news in Madisonville as "GE Is Hiring 48."

Good jobs news for Future City, too.

Lexington, too, presumably.

Waaaaaaay too rich ... those six old Piratas ended up going for $51.

Cage the Elephant is not the only Kentucky musical act blowing up. I will be watching American Idol Wednesday.

More weird animal news.