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LOUISVILLE — The University of Louisville's foundation awarded a $200,000 no-bid contract last summer to an advertising firm whose CEO sits on the university's board of trustees.
An investigation of the Kentucky Association of Counties reveals questionable expenses.
The Kentucky League of Cities sent thousands of dollars to law firms employing the executive director's husband, and to a restaurant owned by the husband.
The library's executive director stepped down after an extensive review of expenditures by her and her staff.
Top staffers resigned after the Herald-Leader turned a spotlight on their spending practices.
In 1998, the Kentucky State Supreme Court's new chief justice, Joseph E. Lambert, embarked on an ambitious program to build or improve courthouses in all 120 counties in the state. But a decade and $880 million later, has the courtroom boom been worth the cost?
In the last 30 years, hundreds of thousands of acres in Kentucky have been surface mined, and debate has raged here and nationally about the controversial practice of mountaintop mining in Appalachia. This series of stories is about what happens to the land left behind after the mountains have been mined.
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