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• Seth Davis brings jokes, tenderness to Kentucky Derby kickoff luncheon (PHOTOS)

  21-04-2017 21:54 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Seth Davis told a packed crowd at the They're Off! Luncheon in downtown Louisville Friday that he thought the animosity toward Duke University in Kentucky was overblown – until he got to town."I looked at my itinerary and they had me flying United (Airlines)," joked Davis, the featured speaker who serves as a college basketball analyst for CBS Sports and a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. Davis, whose alma mater is Duke , was one of several speakers during the Kentucky Derby Festival
  
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• KFC names another new celebrity colonel

  21-04-2017 20:54 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Louisville-based KFC has named another new celebrity Col. Harland Sanders impersonator.Actor, writer and producer Rob Lowe will play the KFC founder in a new campaign, selling the Zinger chicken sandwich. Lowe will appear in advertisements in a spacesuit to proclaim the sandwich as out of this world.Lowe said in the release that this sandwich will be launched into space.“My grandfather was the head of the Ohio chapter of the National Restaurant Association in the 1960s and took me to meet&
  
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• FCC deregulatory move has big implications for business broadband service

  21-04-2017 20:01 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Businesses with broadband internet deals for bulk service may eventually pay more for their access after the Federal Communications Commission voted this week to reduce price controls on those sales.FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who voted with the commission’s other Republican member to approve the change, said that those regulations constricted internet service providers, such as AT&T (NYSE: T) or Verizon (NYSE: VZ), from investing further in their networks and also discouraged competitors f
  
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• Speakeasy coming to Whiskey Row

  21-04-2017 19:38 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Whiskey Row is a throwback to Louisville's hooch-dripped past. And what's a throwback without a speakeasy?Looks like we won't have to find out.Over the last few years, construction and leasing has moved forward toward a revamping of Louisville's Whiskey Row district of Main Street, between First and Second streets. On Thursday, a building permit was issued that allows construction of a new bar at 112 W. Washington Street, which is in the same area.According to the building permit, it's called&he
  
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• Acquisition rumors swirl around Kindred Healthcare

  21-04-2017 19:17 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Louisville-based post-acute care giant Kindred Healthcare is the subject of acquisition rumors, no small matter for one of the nation's largest health care providers.According to a report published Thursday by international wire service Reuters, "people familiar with the matter" said that Kindred was working with investment banks in the early stages of a sale. The report also said that a potential sale of the nation's largest home-based health, hospice and community care providers is "uncertain.
  
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• Why Community Development Block Grant funding is important to Louisville

  21-04-2017 19:02 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  News about the proposed federal budget is always dizzying. Trillions of dollars. Thousands of programs. It’s often hard to decipher which ones really affect you, your family and your community.The numbers and names (many of them acronyms) can become so abstract that many people just give up trying to understand it all.But it’s really, really important to remember that a few typed lines in a federal budget can have an enormous impact on your life and the lives of people in Louisville
  
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• Kroger could be a logical acquirer of Whole Foods, analyst says

  21-04-2017 18:53 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Kroger Co. could be a logical buyer for Whole Foods Market after all.A Wall Street analyst wrote in a report to clients on Thursday that a Kroger acquisition of Whole Foods (Nasdaq: WFM) would be a big benefit to Cincinnati-based Kroger (NYSE: KR).Edward Kelly, an analyst who tracks Kroger for Credit Suisse, wrote that a Kroger purchase of Whole Foods “would marry each company’s strengths with the other’s weaknesses, unlock massive cost synergies that could reach 3 percent of W
  
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• Ex-U of L execs no longer subject of FBI probe

  21-04-2017 17:23 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Former University of Louisville vice president for health affairs David Dunn and other former U of L employees are no longer under investigation by the FBI.Dunn, along with former U of L chief information officer Priscilla Hancock and former U of L employee Dr. Russell Bessette, were the subject of an FBI investigation into alleged misuse of federal funds.In interviews, Christie Moore, Hancock's legal counsel, and Scott C. Cox, who represented Bessette, said that the U.S. attorney's office had&h
  
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• Sneak peek of The List: These are Louisville's largest family law firms

  21-04-2017 16:11 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  The April 21 issue of Louisville Business First has four lists (yes, you read that correct, four). Two are law-firm related: one that ranks law firms that work in the area of health care and another that ranks law that work in the area of family law.The two others are lists that rank the highest residential real estate transactions in Jefferson County for 2016: one that includes the 25 transactions for new homes; and the other of the highest residential real estate transactions in existing homes
  
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• This wealthy Kentuckian gave $1M to Trump's inauguration

  21-04-2017 12:55 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  A wealthy Kentucky businessman and horse owner made a significant donation to President Donald Trump's inaugural committee, according to documents released by the Federal Election Commission.B. Wayne Hughes donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee, which raised a record $106.7 million in total. Hughes is the billionaire founder of Public Storage, the largest self-storage chain in the world, and owner of Lexington's Spendthrift Farm, which raises thoroughbred horses.Individuals who donat
  
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