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You would think the bourbon industry would want to forget all about Prohibition, the years between 1920 and 1933 when all-but-medicinal alcohol beverages were illegal and most distilleries closed or switched products.
You would be wrong.
To mark the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition, Old Forester Distillery in Louisville is issuing Old Forester Repeal Bourbon [...]

We forget sometimes that the United States is still in the space business and that we are still developing rockets to take us to other worlds.
Don’t say anything like that to the folks at American Synthetic Rubber Co. in Louisville. They’ll probably ask where you’ve been living, on Saturn?
American Synthetic Rubber is one of 200 [...]

Time currently has a very entertaining feature on its Time.com Web site called “50 Authentic American Experiences.”
Just don’t look too carefully at the picture with the Kentucky item if you have blood pressure problems.
It’s like “sticking a red-clad Louisville Cardinal in the UK Basketball team picture,” says reader John E. Campbell of Lexington.
The item is [...]

WARNING: The following item contains references to poop, manure, fecal matter, crap, turds and neckties. Those with weak dispositions should skip to the next item.
Pat Kelly was scooping along in a customer’s back yard in his role as Lexington’s Pet Butler franchisee.
He was thinking about the upcoming Pet Butler annual convention and what new product [...]

Politicians are known for wind power, but they have met their match at the Democratic National Convention.
The Pepsi Center in Denver uses two 24-foot Big Ass Fans to keep the temperature the same throughout the arena, the Lexington company says.
The fans were installed two years ago to prevent heated air from rising to the ceiling [...]