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Special Reports
Blue Grass Airport's Runaway Spending
Michael Gobb, executive director of Blue Grass Airport, spent 12 days in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2007. The trip cost the airport nearly $13,000. The trip was not unusual for Gobb, who heads the nation's 117th-busiest airport, one that has no commercial international flights. He has traveled to at least 33 cities in the United States and abroad on the airport's dime during the last several years.
At 21, Dawn Nicole Smith has three kids she adores, a marriage that's deteriorating and a gut-wrenching addiction to painkillers. In March 2004, she entered Fayette County Drug Court for forging prescriptions. Since then, with her and the court's permission, reporter Mary Meehan and photographer David Stephenson have followed her struggle to stay clean.
At a cost of $1.8 billion, Kentucky's economic-incentive programs have left citizens on the losing side of a high-stakes game with hard-bargaining corporate interests. This series examines Kentucky's incentives and what they have done to attract jobs
Project Dateline
An occasional series of backroad adventures in which we visit Kentucky towns with fascinating names.
The McConnell Machine
An investigation of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky.
Degrees of Harm
A three-part series about doctors who received their medical degrees from online schools with no accreditation, and the consequences faced by their patients.
A new Dawn?
At 21, Dawn Nicole Smith has three kids she adores, a marriage that's deteriorating and a gut-wrenching addiction to painkillers. In March 2004, she entered Fayette County Drug Court for forging prescriptions. Since then, with her and the court's permission, reporter Mary Meehan and photographer David Stephenson have followed her struggle to stay clean.
In 1998, the Kentucky State Supreme Court's new chief justice, Joseph E. Lambert, embarked on an ambitious program to build or improve courthouses in all 120 counties in the state. But a decade and $880 million later, has the courtroom boom been worth the cost? A three-part series, with a searchable database of new and planned courthouses, and a photo gallery of new courthouses.
