Vicco, Kentucky, in the southern corner of Perry County, is known by its town slogans as a little town with a big heart, and the town too tough to die. On Jan.14, 2013, in a 3 to 1 vote by the city’s commissioners, it made another name for itself by becoming the first municipality in […]
The Kentucky General Assembly meets again in January and Governor Steve Beshear has made tax reform a priority for his second term in office. Jason Bailey, director of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, agrees that now is the time to address Kentucky’s long term financial woes. In this opinion piece originally published in the […]
Part One of Prison Progress, a WMMT radio documentary series on the rapid growth of new prisons in the coalfields of Central Appalachia. Â In this episode we’ll hear about how the idea of prisons as economic development first came to the mountains in the 1980s.
Part Two of Prison Progress, a WMMT radio documentary series on the rapid growth of new prisons in the coalfields of Central Appalachia. In this episode we’ll hear about what happened in our neighboring counties after the prisons opened.