Over a 10-day period beginning Thanksgiving week, Kentucky’s health benefits website, kynect, saw a 16 percent increase in enrollments – adding more than 11,000 Kentuckians to the ranks of the newly insured in just over a week. The largest increase was among individuals purchasing private health insurance plans. From Nov. 26 to Dec. 5, nearly 4,000 […]
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Morehead Becomes Sixth Kentucky City to Extend Protections to Gays
Morehead is now the sixth city in Kentucky to approve an anti-discrimination fairness ordinance, extending protections in employment, housing, and public accommodations to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Covington passed its similar human rights ordinance in 2003, following Louisville and Lexington which passed theirs in 1999. The tiny Appalachian town of Vicco became […]
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Morehead Becomes Sixth Kentucky City to Extend Protections to Gays
Morehead is now the sixth city in Kentucky to approve an anti-discrimination fairness ordinance, extending protections in employment, housing, and public accommodations to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Covington passed its similar human rights ordinance in 2003, following Louisville and Lexington which passed theirs in 1999. The tiny Appalachian town of Vicco became […]
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A Day of Free Dentistry To Be Offered as Part of Dr. Sheridan’s “Get Your Smile On”
Dr. Dan Sheridan and his team will sponsor a day of free dentistry with the event “Get Your Smile On.” This event will be held on Friday at their office at 7827 Alexandria Pike, Alexandria, KY. On this day dental services will be provided free of charge to people in need in the community.
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Caution About Ballots on Election Day
Image via Wikipedia A reader has alerted me to the fact that there could be some problems on voting day. The mechanics of voting in Kentucky seem to change every year. During the 2000 election with all the talk of hanging chads I proudly proclaimed to my Ohio co-workers that Kentucky had been doing electronic […]
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Candidate Forum Update
When Tracy Davis asked me to post a reminder of the candidate forum coming up next Thursday, September 23rd I pointed out to her that there had been some criticism on this site from those working during the 8am to 10am time slot. Tracy has agreed to take any questions you may have for the […]
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Recent Events
Since it has been a couple of weeks since my last post I thought I would bring you a collection of small stories that have been reported elsewhere with a little commentary: Status update on the Midway – this was a recent article in the Enquirer from a recent Council meeting. The story covers other […]
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Bellevue Incentives
A recent article in the Cincinnati Post provides another great example of an area town thinking outside the box in regards to defining an objective (promote more owner occupied housing) and then offering real incentives to affect change (initially $2,500 per unit and now $5,000). In this case the objective is reducing multi-families and helping […]
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Fort Thomas Demographics
As I mentioned in my post on Friday entitled “Focus on Retail” I wanted to provide a comparison of Fort Thomas demographics as compared to other retail areas that have been mentioned as being a model district for what we are trying to achieve in Fort Thomas. I looked at demographic data for Loveland, Mariemount, […]