Covington does little to tell the stories about the city’s colorful history as one of the most criminally and politically corrupt places in the United States. Those stories are easy to find in old newspaper articles, federal and congressional investigation records and in the many books and academic journal articles written about gambling and vice […]
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Is Northern Kentucky’s vice history good for business?
Northern Kentucky once was one of the most criminally corrupt places in the United States. Covington and Newport were hotbeds of bootlegging, gambling and prostitution. Many public officials, if they couldn’t be bought by racketeers, were themselves criminals. The ways that Covington and Newport deal with that history are complicated. Newport, in some ways, leans […]