July 2, 2007

We’re back

 
Made it back from Kentucky safe and sound. There’s plenty of work to do — for everyone to do. Over and over, we were told to be patient. Growth occurs but slowly. More businesses arrive, but in due time.
Our hosts, the chambers of commerces and economic development groups from Lexington and Georgetown and the folks [...]

July 2, 2007

Another silent voice

 
Beverly Sills died today. I learned to appreciate opera by hearing her sing.
By VERENA DOBNIK
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) _ Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday of cancer, her manager said. She [...]

July 2, 2007

Bye, Bob

While I was in Lexington, Ky., Patsy Brumfield, the DJ news editor, called and told me Bob Gordon had died.
I was pulling out of the parking lot to go to Georgetown and had to stop the car for a moment.
Bob had a massive heart attack in 1989. He’d been jogging in a park [...]