Typical??????????????

Unless you have been living in a cave you very well know the relationship between the two areas, Corbin & Laurel County is very cold. Neither will sign a reciprocal agreement amoung a Host of Basic Services that easily could be done.

Unfortunatley there are serious underlying issues that are stirring the pot here. The Everyone "Helping" both areas is certainly the right thing to do but thr Reality is these areas are locked in a tough head to head battle on several levels.

Sure it's a typical Corbin response and so are the London/Laurel Based Responses, this may be a good Task for someone like Bob Terrell, maybe he is the Guy who could broker at least some mid-level discussions between the two Governments.

Laurel has certainly done well but they will never put Corbin & their exits out of business.

That's your best response?? You certainly would not make the debate team.

Let me Lecture you just a Little More, the Philosophical Pie in the sky stuff about "How it should be" is really nice, warm and really fuzzy, but first we have to deal with the current state between the two areas with real solutions and actual ideas to try an unthaw the relationship between the two cities and counties.

A few years ago one of our leaders approached some of the Laurel County residents to make peace and try to work together, i think you know who I am referring to?? I do not believe that meeting went very well now did it?? From what i understand the Laurel Folks were not to receptive, right?

Now, just a few possible solutions, or maybe even one. Corbin should have an experienced representative who can talk with Laurel County, my own humble suggestion would be Bob Terell, Dave Huff, maybe a short list of a few others who have a Long History of success within this area and on a State & National Basis.

This Rep should meet One on One with the Laurel Judge executive, no one else involved, no assistants, no one else. A 3-5 Point baseline established that targets one very good Project that can benefit both area's, if this works the coperation would indeed expand.

Only some very basic solutions but still a way forward, it's easy to talk about the way things should be but correcting the current state and breaking the current stalemate may be the correct path.

You do win on the math about the current exits, it really is one instead of two.

Did anyone else make it out to the open house last week at the expo site. It was something to see.

Like it or not, its coming.

It's both scary and exciting about the whole thing.

Oh for goodness sake.

You people ALL need to get out more. Corbin's not going to cause London to dry up and blow away. London's not gonna cause Corbin to roll up the sidewalks and die.

3 years ago I sold my business and moved out of Lexington. The traffic was a nightmare, the people were all rude, and I became weary of people telling me what I could or more to the point, what I could not do.

I considered London, but to be perfectly honest, it was too damn big, and beginning to suffer from the same growing pains I witnessed in Lexington.

I decided on Corbin, because it was smaller, easier to negotiate, and offered a less hectic-feeling lifestyle. And I have to be perfectly honest, if I drive through downtown Corbin, and see a Starbucks, I'm going to pack up and move again.

I like Corbin, for what it is. It's fairly uncomplicated.

The Southeast Kentucky Agriculture and Exposition Center, offers a great deal of potential, and hopefully it all stays on that side of town, away from me. Launch your Applebees, and Starbucks and Yuppie Wannabe Harley dealerships, right there beside the interstate so I don't have to deal with the inevitable nightmare of traffic madness.

Those places combined won't employ more than 100 people, at the lowest possible wage.

Bickering about where the Harley place goes, or who has the biggest expo center is kind of pointless.

Figuring out what you want your town to be, is really the issue.

Do try and remember that we down-graded our status to sell alcohol by the glass, and use that money to promote tourism. Tourism of what? Cumberland Falls isn't inside the city limits, neither is the Sanders Cafe'.

Without those places, what is Corbin?

I like having my locally owned drug store on the corner, I don't want to go into a mega-monster-bulk-pack store and buy 250 rolls of toilet paper, and a pack of hamburger.

We should support local businesses, that have roots in Corbin. We shouldn't be striving to bribe national chains to throw up another styrofoam clad building, to sell us more pre-processed burgers and fries.

It's people that want that kind of town that need to spend a few days trying to deal with Hamburg Pavillion in Lexington, where it takes you 30 minutes to get... anywhere.

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Oh for goodness sake.

You people ALL need to get out more....

... I have to be perfectly honest, if I drive through downtown Corbin, and see a Starbucks, I'm going to pack up and move again...

...The Southeast Kentucky Agriculture and Exposition Center, offers a great deal of potential, and hopefully it all stays on that side of town, away from me. Launch your Applebees, and Starbucks and Yuppie Wannabe Harley dealerships, right there beside the interstate so I don't have to deal with the inevitable nightmare of traffic madness....

Those places combined won't employ more than 100 people, at the lowest possible wage.

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You sound like you don't care if we get any addtional jobs, have tourists stop at our South exit or spend their money here. I know most people would appreciate "only" 100 jobs coming here - ask the thousands around Southeast Kentucky that are without jobs, health care, and food on their table.

Imagine how much restaurant tax money a Starbucks would bring in, along with Applebees and other "chain" establishments? 35,000 vehicles a day pass the south exit, and many will stop and spend their money at Applebees or Starbucks, not at Bubba's Burger Barn, Sally's Salads or Wallys Waffles.

You also don't know that Starbucks gives even part-time employees full health benefits. And Harley hardly pays minimum wage - they pay better then the majority of our current local businesses.

No jobs, growth or tourism, and an opening speech of "Oh for goodness sake, you people ALL need to get out more".  I suggest you do not run for political office on that platform, or any platform for that matter.