If you live in Fayette County, the Lexington-Bluegrass Association of Realtors says the odds are 6 or 7 in 10 that you are jump-up-and-down happy about the job Mayor Jim Newberry and the Urban County Council are doing.
The Realtors, who have tracked local public opinion since 2002, say they have never seen approval percentages as [...]
Russell Adams has a message for NCAA office pool players: Don’t underestimate the Kentucky Wildcats.
Adams wrote in Friday’s Wall Street Journal that the Cats have been the nation’s most underrated team in the NCAA tournament, based on his analysis of 1,380 NCAA tournament games since 1985.
He calculated the average margin of victory for every seed [...]
You’ve got to be pretty fast with the lip to get ahead of the World Games 2010 Foundation’s board members.
At Thursday’s meeting, P.G. Peeples asked that the minutes of the board’s last meeting be corrected to show that he – not Everett McCorvey, director of opera at the University of Kentucky – was a member [...]
You’ve got to be pretty fast with the lip to get ahead of the World Games 2010 Foundation’s board members.
At Thursday’s meeting, P.G. Peeples asked that the minutes of the board’s last meeting be corrected to show that he – not Everett McCorvey, director of opera at the University of Kentucky – was a member [...]
One of Lexington’s most high-profile female executives, Laura Boison, has left Chase after 30 years with that bank and its predecessors.
She is now at the Lexington investment management firm of E.S. Barr & Co.
“I think they were counting me with the furniture,” Boison said, joking about her longevity at Chase. “No officer has been with [...]
An 18-wheeler with “Microsoft” in huge letters on the sides and back was parked in front of the Thomas & King Leadership and Conference Center at Georgetown College when Libby Sartain arrived Tuesday.
“I thought they were after me,” she quipped.
Sartain is executive vice president and chief people officer at Yahoo! Inc., which is battling an [...]
The Bluegrass State Games – officially, the Get Healthy Kentucky Bluegrass State Games Presented by Subway – will have three new events in 2008.
There’s lacrosse, cycling trials and cornhole.
Yep, cornhole.
The game in which competitors take turns tossing small cloth bags of corn toward holes in raised platforms is getting some respect – despite a name [...]
Watts Wacker, the futurist who keynoted the Chellgren Lecture last week at the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics, poked a little fun at his vocation.
“I make all this up,” Wacker told the audience. “If I really knew the future, you think I’d be here right now?”
Wacker said one of his accolades [...]
Watts Wacker, the futurist who keynoted the Chellgren Lecture last week at the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics, poked a little fun at his vocation.
“I make all this up,” Wacker told the audience. “If I really knew the future, you think I’d be here right now?”
Wacker said one of his accolades [...]
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