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  • A lot of history resides in those old buildings

    BOARD TO DECIDE CENTREPOINTE REQUEST

    By Tom Eblen

    Dudley Webb is hardly the first ambitious businessman to want to leave his mark on the block in the center of downtown Lexington. A five-member city board will decide this week whether Webb should be able to erase the marks of all those who came before him.

  • Other cities look to Lexington's successes

    By Tom Eblen

    It's human nature to focus more on what's going wrong than what's going right. I noticed that a lot when I lived in Atlanta. Except for its traffic and smog, Atlanta is the envy of most Southern cities. But get a group of Atlantans together, and all they do is complain.

  • Google's Street View cool, a little creepy

    MAP FEATURE PUTS YOU IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD

    By Tom Eblen

    Google, I wish you had warned me you were coming. I would have cut up that brush pile and stuffed it in the Lenny -- as my wife probably told me to do -- instead of leaving it at the curb for your roving camera to find.

  • Festival brings out band geek in everyone

    DANVILLE FULL OF GOOD CHEER, LAWN CHAIRS

    In high school, I was a band geek. Since then, I've mostly been a newspaper and bicycle geek. But once you're in a high school band, especially a marching band, you never seem to get it out of your system.

  • A Kentucky TV treasure is threatened

    By Tom Eblen

    This state doesn't lead the nation in many aspects of education. But Kentucky Educational Television has, over the past 40 years, been one of America's most innovative and admired public TV systems.

  • Top thinkers to converge on Kentucky
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    By Tom Eblen

    What if someone brought several dozen of the world's smartest, most innovative people to Kentucky? And what if you could spend three days listening to them talk about ideas that may change the world?

  • Austin shows us what to strive for

    By Tom Eblen

    What kind of city should Lexington become? That's the big question each year when Commerce Lexington gathers local leaders and takes them to another city in search of ideas.

  • Crowd left smiling on Rolex's biggest day

    TRAFFIC SLOWED BUT DIDN'T STOP; ORGANIZERS AND LITTLE GIRLS HAPPY

    By Tom Eblen

    Some people think of this as the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event. Others think of it as the annual dress rehearsal for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games -- one more almost down, two more to go.
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