Apr 29, 2008 | Baltimore Business Journal
USF&G vacates Light Street office building
“The building is a great building”
Baltimore Business Journal - by Daniel J. Sernovitz Staff USF&G Financial Services Corp. via Baltimore Business Journal
Mattress maker's earnings to drop
“On a constant currency basis, international segment net sales decreased 3 percent”
Tempur-Pedic International said in March that it expected its first quarter earnings to be "approximately half" of its year-earlier results due to a sudden, deep slump in sales. via Lexington Herald-Leader
Lexington church officials hear pope
“The Holy Father spoke with great gratitude of the dedication of bishops to their ministry”
Pope Benedict XVI met Wednesday with 300 church officials, including some from Lexington, to express his appreciation to them and to the United States. via Kentucky.com
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“Mike really fits the theme of the assembly - "Do justice, love kindness, walk humbly, with your God”
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Actor, singer follows musical footsteps
“OK, someone has a lot of experience. She clearly had done a lot of roles.”
Jessie Rose Pennington, who stars in Paragon Music Theatre's production of The Music Man, may be a new face to many Lexington theatergoers. via Lexington Herald-Leader
Gas Prices Jump To $3.45 In Lexington
“We do think prices, particularly for self-serve regular, are going to continue to go up”
Gas prices jumped to $3.45 per gallon at several Lexington stations Monday, a record high for the area and closer to the $4 per gallon predicted by some analysts for this summer. via WLEX-TV Lexington
“This is not the Revolution you're used to thinking of. It was a different kind of war. The battles that took place in interior Pennsylvania and New York were partisan, brother against brother”
' Mention of the Revolutionary War - ' the struggle for independence from England waged by a ragtag army of colonists more than two centuries ago - ' conjures up thoughts of Bunker Hill, Lexington, Concord, ... via The Sentinel
Dubai Company To Acquire Fasig-Tipton
A company from Dubai has reached an agreement to acquire Fasig-Tipton Co. Inc., the oldest thoroughbred auction company in North America. via WLEX-TV Lexington
Bardstown native forms foundation in father's memory
“It would be a vehicle for him to be thought about often”
Bardstown native forms foundation in father's memory By Lisa Tolliver - Editor In memory of his father, Jeremy Delk wants to give back to the community where he grew up. via The Kentucky Standard
Lexington senior's art project earns him a trip to Carnegie Hall
“The theme behind the it was kind of like, what's behind the door”
LEXINGTON - A Lexington senior will attend the Scholastic Awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York City in June after receiving national recognition for a semester-long art project he completed this winter. via News Journal
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Parenting Guide Author To Read At Bookstore
Brett Berk will read from and sign copies of his book, "The Gay Uncle's Guide to Parenting: Candid Counsel from the Depths of the Daycare Trenches," this Saturday, April 5, at 2 p.m. at Books and Co., located ... via The News-Gazette, Lexington, VA
From wireless pioneer, memories of a milestone cell phone call
“It was huge. It weighed 2-1/2 pounds. It was about 10 inches high by an inch and a half wide by perhaps 3 inches deep”
Standing on the corner of New York's 56th and Lexington 35 years ago Thursday, Marty Cooper was nearly run over. via CNET News.com
Lexington-Inland JV Buys 11 Properties for $270M
March 28, 2008 By: Scott Baltic, Contributing Editor A co-investment program between Lexington Realty Trust and Inland American Real Estate Trust Inc. via Commercial Property News
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Clinton campaign visiting Kentucky again
Kentucky is getting quite a bit of attention from the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reports on its Web site that daughter Chelsea Clinton will visit Kentucky this week and so will former president Bill Clinton.
The planned campaign stops come just days after the New York senator campaigned in Louisville and Madisonville on Saturday. She is locked in a tight race with Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination.
Jerry Lundergan is helping coordinate Clinton's campaign in Kentucky and tells the Lexington newspaper that Chelsea Clinton will make stops in Lexington and Louisville. He says Bill Clinton will visit Pikeville on Thursday. The former president also made stops in Kentucky last week. Read more