Outside experts say city needs attitude adjustment By Jamie Butters, Herald-Leader Business Writer Lexington needs better airline service, a hip downtown scene and a less snooty attitude to compete with other cities for the best new jobs. That's what two outside experts told about 50 local executives who met at the Hyatt Regency yesterday to help economic-development group Lexington United decide what kind of companies to recruit. Home sales, prices up from last year Herald-Leader Staff Report Higher borrowing costs in May slowed the rate of home sales, but prices leaped anyway. Housing Sales Includes homes from the Lexington Multiple Listing Service, which covers Fayette and adjacent counties. Data include new and existing home sales.
All numbers are single-family and town house sales.
The union members have voted to strike if necessary. The bus tour was also scheduled for stops at Louisville, Jackson and Pikeville yesterday. Federal regulators gave their blessing yesterday to the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corp., a union that transforms one of the offspring of the old Bell system into the nation's largest local phone company and wireless provider. Name, but not rates, will change GTE will get a new name, Verizon Communications, but that's about the only change the phone company's 700,000 Kentucky customers should expect, company officials say. Grown-ups are being spotted with one foot on the pavement, one on a board, and their hands on the handlebars, doing the vehicular equivalent of skipping down city streets and sidewalks.