Auto woes hit state hard

As suppliers struggle, laid-off workers seek new careers

By Scott Sloan

General Motors and Ford may grab the headlines when the auto industry is suffering, but the suppliers to their assembly plants, including a network spread across towns large and small in Kentucky, are suffering, too.

CentrePointe TIF meeting with council gives pause

By Tom Eblen

I'm sure it's because I've heard too much of the slop that has replaced intelligent discourse in our presidential campaign. But as I listened Thursday night to Urban County Council members and others discuss whether to go forward with a tax increment financing project tied to the CentrePointe development, one phrase kept running through my mind: Lipstick on a pig.