Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. Welcome to LINK! Last week, I offered you the position of Chief Content Officer, and since you came back to read the column again this week, I can only assume that you […]
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Inside LINK: A farewell, and a new Chief Content Officer
Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. Earlier this week, our Chief Content Officer, Michael Monks, announced his departure from LINK, and NKY altogether. What came as a surprise to many in the community was not a surprise to […]
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Op-Ed: CVG is roaring back to life
This op-ed is written by Candace McGraw, CEO of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. Over the last several years, we have collectively experienced unimaginable change brought on by the pandemic. All industries were impacted including travel and aviation. However, as we near the end of 2022, I am pleased to share that the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International […]
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Michael Monks saying goodbye to LINK and NKY
For the past dozen years I’ve written your stories. Now, I’m taking some time to write my own. Over the coming weeks, I’m packing up and heading westward to my new home, Los Angeles. Living in L.A. is something I have wanted to do for years. Decades even, maybe. But I always found a reason […]
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Conner High School student selected for 2023 U.S. Senate Youth Program
Heng Yang, a senior at Conner High School in Boone County, was selected for the 2023 U.S. Senate Youth Program. Yang and another student were selected from among the state’s top student leaders to be part of this national 104-student delegation. Yang will also receive a $10,000 college scholarship from the Hearst Foundations. Yang will […]
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Inside LINK: What was a town crier then, and what should it be now?
Inside LINK is a weekly column from CEO Lacy Starling; this week, Managing Editor Meghan Goth is taking over. You can email Lacy at lacy@linknky.com or Meghan at mgoth@linknky.com. If it bleeds it leads. If you’re familiar with this mantra, you’ve either worked in news or are an active consumer of it. This is the […]
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Op-Ed: Kentucky’s High Court can empower parental choice in education
This op-ed is written by Colleen Hroncich, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, and Caleb O. Brown, host of the Cato Daily Podcast and a father of three in Shelby County. Akia McNeary, a Kentucky mother of four, was disappointed when the so-called Council for Better Education filed a lawsuit to […]
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Op-Ed: Bias against charter schools requires independent authorizers
The following op-ed was written by Jim Waters, the president and CEO of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions. With the defeat during November’s election of school-choice opponents, including Reps. Ed Massey (R-Hebron) and Patti Minter (D-Bowling Green) supporters are hopeful that policy providing parents with alternatives for educating their children beyond schools assigned […]
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Op-Ed: We must invest in civics to inform and reengage an increasingly isolated america
The following op-ed was written by Kentucky Secretary of State, Michael Adams. For many Americans, the first image that comes to mind when they hear the term “civics” is not the White House or a voting booth, but rather an animated piece of paper singing on the steps of the Capitol Building. This initial introduction […]
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Inside LINK: Office Hours
Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. Two weeks ago in this space, I wrote about our plans for year two of LINK – our beat re-alignment, some new hires, developing core coverage areas, and how we’re going to […]