Oh, Kentucky

My wife and I have wondered for months about ErMC2, and so I was excited to learn from Luke Short at iSurfHopkins.com what it is that they do. This building that the company ended up in is near our mall here in Madisonville. It formerly housed a formal-clothing place, and my wife says shopping there was exciting because it typically meant you had some special, fancy event on the horizon. Anyway, after months (perhaps years) of failing to land a new tenant for the full building, the guy who owned it (and the clothing store that occupied it) cut up the place into three smaller office units. ErMC2 became the second rentor. I'm happy that building owner's business gamble is presumably at least two-thirds of the way to paying off.

Here are some creative business minds in Versailles and Winchester, too.

Of course, that is not to say that creativity in business is always a good thing. This audit of a nonprofit that provides Medicaid services in 16 Kentucky counties might turn out to be an even bigger story in the state with regard to reversing/reshaping/reinforcing political views than even the U.S. Department of Labor bid to close a Pike County mine.

Louisvillians who can't get a ticket for Friday night's Fern Creek-at-Henderson County high-school football game will have to listen to the broadcast on their transistor radios while attending the U of L-vs.-Tennessee NCAA women's basketball showdown.



Friday's going to be a big day in Bardstown even with both of the local teams eliminated from the KHSAA football playoffs.

Mad props to (and interesting thoughts from) Kentucky's All-American Teacher of the Year Award honorees.

This story makes me want to shop at JCPenney.

Speaking of long careers, I wonder how important the next two Saturdays are to Joker Phillips's hopes of having one as head coach of UK football.

Kentucky's other senator is also in the news in relation to "earmark" spending.

It's fun to think about Irina Filatova of The Moscow Times and the other reporters visiting Louisville for the Papa John's press junket.

Interesting quote from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's chief district engineer of Department of Highways District 1, as reported in the Courier & Press of Evansville, Ind.: "Kentucky counties with an interstate highway running through them have almost double the per capita income of counties that don’t. When picking a location for a new plant, many industries will only consider communities that are within 15 miles of an interstate."

My family traveled down U.S. 68/Ky. 80, I'll bet, 10 times before I graduated high school to see the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site.