IMG_1641 Kentucky is about 5 million people organized into 120 counties between the Ohio River and Tennessee. Since 1792 it governs almost 105,000 squar...
Note: The Kentucky politics of what's proposed here needs more thought. We make it here Lead times were two years and more on processors and memory we needed to make cars, thermostats, point-of-sale machines, industrial processes, medical equipment, and phones. Prices were obscene. Taiwan and South Korea were short of industrial inputs and China didn't consider us a priority market anymore. "We…
The housing shortage and cost of living were Kentuckians' central concerns in the election. Elected officials had to tackle housing. The summit Mayors and judge executives met for a housing summit. The governor and state legislators were invited to the closing session. A few legislators attended, but it was a start. Topics included: Land use. Comprehensive planning. Demographic changes, population…
No service We're three friends who bought into the whole "enough" thing, when it comes to phones, at least. We each go about it in our own ways. After hanging out at the lake and talking about it, we decided to write this. Offline travel by Tucker I went to see friends at the lake last weekend. We thought it would be fun to do the trip "offline." My friend James picked me up. He uses a dumb phone…
Maybe it starts in Fulton in the southwest, maybe Paris in the northeast. A critical access hospital closes, and a county fiscal court modestly subsidizes a primary care physician to retain some kind of healthcare for the community. It goes unnoticed til repeated by another fiscal court in another county. There's a letter to the editor, approving or complaining, a facebook thread or a lawsuit.…
Capital, energy (as in zheng nengliang ), physical energy (electricity), and financial investment are all being sucked into the AI bubble. But almost five million Kentuckians live in the real economy, with expensive electricity, a refrigerator that's about to go, a brand-new this year phone with an already broken screen, and a snowblower it turns out they didn't need. Secondary markets Thus…