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  • Tom Eblen: Now What, Lexington? conference returns

    Now what, Lexington? That is the question ProgressLex is asking again as the citizens group hosts a second Now What, Lexington? gathering Saturday at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. Like last year, the event is free and open to anyone with ideas for making Lexington a better place.

  • Tom Eblen: Kentucky on display

    The weather forecasters were wrong, thank goodness. The sun was shining bright on a perfect spring afternoon as a record crowd of 164,858 stumbled over the words to My Old Kentucky Home before seeing Animal Kingdom win his first race on dirt to take the 137th Kentucky Derby.Brief periods of rain...

  • Tom Eblen: Pink-out highlights the best in Oaks Day

    LOUISVILLE — The Kentucky Oaks has grown from Louisville's day at the races into a spectacle almost as big and colorful as the next day's Kentucky Derby. And the color of the Oaks is most definitely pink.Many women at Churchill Downs on Friday wore pink hats and dresses. Men wore pink jackets...

  • Tom Eblen: UK chief's hiring like arranged marriage

    One professor likened it to the awkward first meeting of a couple in an arranged marriage: Everyone was rushing to figure out whether their new partner was a good match, even though the deal already had been done.Not only had the deal been done, but the flowers were on their way and the organist...

  • Tom Eblen: From bad times to opportunities

    Good things can come from bad times. Consider two recent examples in Lexington.The first was the announcement Tuesday by the mayor, most Urban County Council members, land preservationist groups and the Home Builders Association that there is no need any time soon to expand the 53-year-old Urban...

  • Tom Eblen: Horse Park improvements on view at Rolex

    People who haven't been to the Kentucky Horse Park in a while will see some big changes, thanks to a major makeover for last fall's Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.Improvements include the $40 million indoor Alltech Arena, the $25 million Rolex Stadium and $14 million in other improvements, plus...

  • Tom Eblen: Rand Paul, a Senate show horse, not a workhorse

    There are two kinds of people in Congress: workhorses and show horses. Few show horses have pranced and preened as much as Rand Paul has during his first months as a United States senator.The Kentucky Republican's election last November came amid a perfect storm of voter discontent with the political...

  • Tom Eblen: Netherlands can be a model for Lexington's streets project

    I had always wondered what it would be like to ride a bicycle in the Netherlands. Now I know: It's like driving a car in America. Most people do it, and the transportation system is designed to make it easy.I spent last week biking around the Netherlands, from busy city streets to rural roads beside...

  • Maker's Mark leadership to change, but it stays in the Samuels family

    LORETTO — Bill Samuels Jr. didn't get his family into the whiskey business. His great-great-great-great grandfather did that. He didn't create the recipe for Maker's Mark bourbon or the marketing philosophy behind it. His father did that. Samuels didn't think up the name Maker's Mark, design...

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