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Greetings, Friends.

Welcome to this week's Postmortem, where paid subscribers get the back story and my thoughts on things that I'm still working out or just find amusing or curious.

This has undoubtedly been among the busiest and most intense weeks for The Edge since our founding. It started with traveling to and from Lexington to hear the charges leveled at US Bank killer, Brailen Weaver, 18, whose young life is a third casualty in the horrific mess he has made.

Then there was preparing for the last stretch of the campaign season leading to the primaries, which included doing research ahead of my interview with County Judge Executive Reagan Taylor, and keeping up with all the posts waiting for me on social media after that posted. I also have been trying to chase down Chuck Givens, candidate for judge executive, although I did get to interview Donna Agee, the other candidate running for judge executive.

And in the middle of all that, I suffered a bad injury and had to miss covering yet another event because I was in Lexington trying to get a correct diagnosis and prognosis.

Land sharing

Unfortunately, what I missed on Thursday afternoon was the groundbreaking of the Central Kentucky Business Park, the regional industrial site located in Berea, and shared by way of an interlocal agreement between Berea, Madison County, Scott County, and the Fayette Urban County Government (Lexington). Pubic opposition forced Georgetown and the City of Richmond to drop out of the deal.

Since I began covering this development, an increasing number of folks have come forward to share with me their doubts about it. I have also been told by several folks, that our incumbents lost significant backers over the fact of their enthusiasm for the deal. That and the 911 fees, as previously reported here in Postmortem.

Why would there be opposition to the project? Some folks think we shouldn't be using our resources to help Lexington, whose leadership, they say, didn't do their urban planning very well, and who therefore need our land, but shouldn't have access to it. That's just the scuttlebutt, but I will have more reporting about the business park coming this week.

Podcast revelations

Thanks to County Judge Executive Reagan Taylor for graciously sitting for an interview on my podcast. He's catching heat on Facebook for being upset with me, but in my book, he was gracious, especially considering that even though I told him ahead of time that I wanted to talk about Victory Lane, he seemed surprised by my line of questioning. Plus, with my trademark subtlety, I said it was a dumb project.

Still, I am not satisfied that I got a clear answer about what the heck is going on in the area between Goggins Lane and Lexington Road at the County/City line and why the County received nearly $10 million from the state transportation cabinet to build Victory Lane in the City of Richmond, purportedly to help alleviate traffic.

To me, it's a red flag. The project ranks very low on the state's list of transportation priorities. Plus, aren't we always hearing from our Fiscal Court that so many of this or that problem "is not the County's problem. That's the City's problem..." So, why is the County stepping in to solve a problem the City didn't ask the County to solve?

It begs for an explanation, considering that there are two other transportation priorities citizens have loudly voiced their opinion about, and which also seem to have been subverted from the order the state put them in, with the County's low-ranked Goggins Lane project coming in on top. Those two transportation cabinet projects