Tom Eblen
Tom Eblen: Is Lexington the Literary Capital of Mid-America?
Many states have rich literary traditions. But few can top what writers who were born in or moved to Central and Eastern Kentucky have produced — and are producing.
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NEIGHBORS
Tom Eblen: New location fitting for black history museum
The Isaac Scott Hathaway Museum's new home seems almost fitting: Black history was once something of an orphan when it came to the study of Kentucky history. The museum moved last summer to a century-old building on Georgetown Street that was once the Colored Orphan Industrial Home.
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BUSINESS
Tom Eblen: Lexington could be a petri dish for growing new companies
The Lexington Venture Club's annual celebration of local entrepreneurs last week had a '70s disco theme, but it was all about the future of economic growth in Central Kentucky. The 78 early-stage companies surveyed by the Lexington Venture Club reported receiving $69.9 million in funding last year...
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Tom Eblen: Meet my moving buddies — caulk, paint, Advil
By the time you read this, Becky and I have either moved to our renovated, century-old house near downtown or died trying.
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Tom Eblen: Without the Civil War, who knows when Lexington's slave trade might have ended?
A century and a half ago, the Civil War began to reach Kentucky and bring an end to one of Lexington's most thriving businesses: the sale of people.
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BUSINESS
Tom Eblen: Unique development project opens in Gardenside neighborhood
In the early 1960s, this place was the Cabana Club, and 5-year-old Holly Wiedemann came here to learn how to skate on Lexington's only ice rink.
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BUSINESS
Tom Eblen: Politics looms over 2012 for area business people
Economists and politicians say the economy is recovering. But what are conditions and expectations like on the ground in Lexington?
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Tom Eblen: Here's my answer to a long-distance reader's question about moving to Lexington
A scientist — originally from Mexico City, now living in Ottawa, Canada — sent me an email last Monday. She had been reading my columns online because her husband was offered a job in Lexington.
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Tom Eblen: Unity Award winner not letting grass grow under his feet
When Jim Embry's name was called as one of two Unity Award winners — along with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Bluegrass — he was gone. He had a plane to catch. It was classic Jim Embry. Who has time to rest on laurels when there is a world out there in need of improvement?
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Tom Eblen: MLK's spirit lives in the Occupy protests
If Martin Luther King Jr. were somehow able to attend Lexington's annual celebration of his birth Monday, where would he spend his time?
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