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Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009

Whitley car plant coming to life

October 20, 2009

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• Global Green Cars has begun moving into its newly-leased facility in Williamsburg, according to the Corbin Times-Tribune. Global Green Cars is an Idaho company and was approved in June 2009 for more than $15 million in state tax incentives to open the plant. Brooks Agnew, president of Global Green Cars, has said his company has signed contracts with Chinese suppliers and could go forward without any federal funding. The electric-car plant could result in 350 jobs.The Herald-Leader reported on the company in June.
  

• The Daily Yonder reviews a new book, Out in the Country, by Indiana University communications professor Mary Gray based on research she conducted during nineteen months of fieldwork in and around rural Kentucky. "Out in the Country sets out to understand the processes by which queer rural youth negotiate their identities, lay claim to public space, and organize for social change."
  

• The Bowling Green Daily News reports on a six-episode online series created by Josh Keown, a Morgantown native and 2001 graduate of Western Kentucky University. The video series was selected for the front page of Funny or Die, which was "all we ever wanted to do with this and more,” said Keown, 32, who works in Louisville as the art director for a magazine and maintains a pop culture blog. The series is Pearl and I, written by Keown and follows his efforts to get back into the dating scene after his divorce.
  

• The adult entertainment industry is providing jobs at a  time when jobs are hard to find, according to The Tennessean. Bernadette Barton, an associate professor of sociology and women's studies at Morehead State University who specializes in the study of sexuality, said the reason more people are looking for work in the sexually oriented businesses is simple: Turnover is high, the emotional and physical toll can be steep and the pay can be high, too. That means the industry is almost always hiring.
  

• Business Lexington profiles Asbury College's $12 million Andrew S. Miller Communication Arts Center. Construction is underway on the new facility which is designed to support the communication arts major areas of study: media communications, journalism, theater and cinema performance, and communications. The building will be a 50,000-square-foot facility, named after an alumnus, former member of the board of trustees and retired commissioner of the Salvation Army. It will include a 6,000-square-foot television studio and a 5,000-square-foot black box theater — both set up as sound stages — along with a classrooms, offices and staging areas.