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This spring, Carroll County and surrounding communities celebrated students pursuing advanced manufacturing careers in our region with College Signing Day. Due to restrictions during Covid, 2022 was the second time this event was offered since it’s inception in 2019. College Signing Day highlights graduating high school students who have been accepte...Continue Reading

Andy Beshear has plenty to boast about. With a tandem of recent mega wins in the EV mobility sweepstakes, the first-term governor has declared Kentucky to be “the undisputed electric battery production capital of the United States of America.” Big statement, that. “Between Ford and the Envision plant,” Beshear told m...Continue Reading

If you’re looking to tackle housing shortages in your community, especially in affordable and workforce housing, D3G is probably one of the best companies to learn from. The company works on over 3,000 housing projects per year. Their work ranges from strategic planning to helping communities secure grant dollars t...Continue Reading

Recently, Elon Musk announced plans for the Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot that stands 5 feet, 8 inches tall. Musk said the robot “probably won’t work.” I hope he is wrong. Many people have an adverse reaction to discussions of automation and artificial intelligence. While I understand those fears, I believ...Continue Reading

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Andy Beshear announced another strong showing for Kentucky in Site Selection magazine’s annual rankings, which includes the 2022 Prosperity Cup and Mac Conway Awards, as well as the Top Deals in North America list. Kentucky ranks sixth in this year’s Prosperity Cup. The ranking recognizes state-level economi...Continue Reading

You’re evaluating a new site. It checks all the boxes when it comes to the property, local infrastructure, and business climate. You have one more box to check — labor supply. You’re presented with a hodge-podge of numbers. How can you make sense of it all? And what’s the botto...Continue Reading

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Leaders from the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet along with state and local officials recognize 17 Kentucky Main Street communities for their efforts to foster economic vitality and job creation through historic preservation. The Kentucky Main Street program was created in 1979 to reverse the economic decline i...Continue Reading

For nearly two years, the predominant COVID-19 driven incentive compliance issue looming over companies has been the difficulty to achieve and report on headcount performance as part of economic development incentive agreements. The evolving workplace landscape precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic adds another wrinkle to this process. With the trend towar...Continue Reading

Competing on a national and global scale for large economic development projects — and winning — is a sure sign of a community’s vitality. A community’s ability to position large-scale, shovel-ready land tracts for investment consideration exponentially increases its ability to secure desired jobs and capital investment at the loca...Continue Reading

As the automotive sector builds toward a future that runs on electric power, Kentucky has moved quickly to stamp its place as a national leader in this burgeoning new market. Within the past seven months, the Commonwealth has announced the two largest economic development projects in its history, and together the...Continue Reading

Mark Green: How much of a hit did the state’s $11.8 billion tourism industry take from the pandemic? Mike Mangeot: Our industry was really one of the first—if not the first—that really showed the impact of the pandemic: the shutdown of the events and meetings and conferences. We took a prett...Continue Reading

FRANKFORT — Gov. Beshear joined the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet and members of the General Assembly to announce that 103 tourism and destination marketing organizations in 88 Kentucky counties will receive a total of $5.3 million in funding. Carrollton/Carroll County Tourism and Convention Commission will be receiving $17,817 of th...Continue Reading

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Governor Andy Beshear is teasing a major economic announcement on Wednesday morning, calling it a “historic investment.” The governor said it will produce thousands of jobs, and solidify Kentucky’s leading role in an emerging industry. Whatever the announcement is, it comes just over six months after th...Continue Reading

Hollywood film cast and crew converged in Henry County last week to shoot an upcoming action-thriller, “Red Right Hand.” The film features a rural showdown in fictional Odim County between forces of good and evil. The stars of the film are Orlando Bloom of “Lord of the Rings” fame an...Continue Reading

Find Out Why North American Stainless Located in Caroll County, Part of Kentucky's I-71 Corridor The New Raw Steel Capital of the United States is Kentucky’s I-71 Corridor due to its strategic advantages, including geographic proximity to highways, waterways, and railways, and its central location, which makes it possible to reac...Continue Reading

Covid-19 has resulted in wild gyrations in the supply chain with the hard-hit semiconductor industry having a major impact on U.S. auto manufacturing. From its beginning, Covid-19 resulted in auto plants closing around the country while sales of computers and other consumer products skyrocketed. When automakers resumed production, they foun...Continue Reading

It seems like the ultimate good-news story. The shift toward electric vehicles will greatly improve the long-term climate health of the planet. It’ll improve human health, too, by reducing pollution. It’ll create thousands of jobs in new industries, with new manufacturing operations lifting local economies. What’s not to like? Don’t forge...Continue Reading

Chances are high that if you’ve been traveling around various regions of the United States in the past few years, you have noticed a solar array where one was not previously. I have had a similar “ah-ha” moment. You may have been struck by the fact that there are vast sola...Continue Reading

Henry County Judge-Executive John Logan Brent along with county executives from Carroll, Gallatin and Owen met with Broadlinc President Kerry Bowlin last Wednesday, March 2 to discuss the company’s regional broadband initiative for rural Northern Kentucky. In the meeting, Bowlin explained that thousands of homes without access to internet infrastructure i...Continue Reading

A resolution to help ensure Kentucky’s workforce development programs are performing at the highest possible levels to address the Commonwealth’s ongoing workforce issues passed out of the Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor committee on Tuesday. During the committee meeting, Kentucky Chamber Director of Public Affairs John Cox testified alongside Senato...Continue Reading

Kentucky’s I-71 Corridor, the New Raw Steel Capital of the United States, has so much to offer for businesses seeking to locate or expand in the region. Numerous strategic advantages of the area have made it possible for Nucor Steel Gallatin to thrive, including undertaking a major expansion. Nucor Steel Gallati...Continue Reading