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New COACH Fellowship Program Accepting Applications
In the summer of 2017 the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust awarded Lexington $700,000 to coordinate the Civic Outreach, Advocacy, and Cooperative Hiring (COACH) Fellowship. The initiative supports community leadership development for young Black men. You can learn more about the grant by wa…
Dockless Bike Share Program Focuses on Flexibility
The City of Lexington has launched a bike share pilot program with Spin, a private company that provides the service at no cost to the city. If you have used bike sharing programs in Louisville or Cincinnati, Lexington‘s deployment is different–it is dockless. Dockless means you can check-out and…A New Look at the History and Costs of Segregated Housing
Richard Rothstein has a review in the New York Times of HIGH-RISERS: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing, by Ben Austen. While you may not have time to read the book, you should at least take time to read the review if you care to understand more about issues such as affordable h…
Results Show Community Efforts Helping the Homeless
Community Conversation on Homelessness in Lexington – March 9, 2018 Lexington faced an escalating problem. In 2005, 882 individuals and families were homeless. That number had grown to 1,544 by 2014. With the subsequent creation of the Office of Homelessness Prevention and Intervention and the Af…
How Lexington Will Get Gigabit Speed for the Internet
I had the opportunity recently to speak with LFUCG Chief Information Officer Aldona Valicenti about the new LexGig project involving fiber optic provider MetroNet. Key benefits of the project she pointed out include a new telecommunications infrastructure with significantly greater speed and capa…Best Practices for Recycling in the New Year
As we work together to recycle and keep Lexington green in the New Year, please keep in mind that certain categories of recyclables require special handling. What follows is an overview of best practices, beginning with three broad categories of materials and corresponding details for how to handl…
What makes Lexington a "University City"?
I had the opportunity recently to speak with the Mayor’s Chief Innovation Officer, Scott Shapiro, about his work. His focus is transformative projects, such as fiber optic infrastructure, and has included developing a typology—university cities—that identifies and builds upon the unique benefits t…