Regional/State

Governor Steve Beshear’s commission studying tax reform should encourage economic growth through job creation and capital investment, the Kentucky Association for Economic Development Association (KAED) president said recently during the commission’s meeting at Bryan Station High School in Lexington.

At the Alltech production facility in Springfield, five American bison graze serenely in the large, rolling pasture adjacent to the plant, oblivious to the production going on inside.

A new documentary premiering later this month at the Kentucky Theater in Lexington has no shortage of Washington County ties, starting with producer Michael Breeding of Michael Breeding Media.
Breeding, who left Springfield after graduating from Washington County High School in 1976 at the age of 16, said he’s excited about the showing of “Cassius Marcellus Clay: An Audacious American,” because Clay is a figure that more Kentuckians should recognize.

Courthouses will be closed statewide and all court services will be unavailable Tuesday, Sept. 4, as the Kentucky Judicial Branch shuts down for the second of three furlough days in 2012.