Population and Census

FRANKFORT — The Kentucky House is moving ahead with plans that could change how area voters are represented in state government, but leaders in the Senate are still content to put off legislative redistricting until 2014. Democratic House...

Financially, the city of Wilmore has received some good news that will give a much-needed injection into its deficient revenue streams; however, it will not take effect until the next fiscal year. Wilmore utilities and public works director Dave...

JUNCTION CITY — Beer has been on Junction City store shelves less than a month, but officials already face legal fire for allowing alcohol sales. Junction City resident Joseph O. Perry and Liquor Mart of Danville are suing the City Council, Mayor...

Jessamine County’s representation in the state legislature will likely be split in the redistricting process after growth over the past 10 years has brought the county population to nearly 50,000. The U.S. Census Bureau released Kentucky’s...

JUNCTION CITY — Junction City moved a step closer to upgrading from a fifth-class city to a fourth-class city Thursday. The state Senate voted 34-2 to change the classifications of Junction City in Boyle County, Guthrie in Todd County and Greensburg...

As the population of Jessamine County continues to grow, it also continues to age. Figures from the 2010 census released last week show that while the county remains younger than the average age statewide, the percentage of the population 65 and older...

A mapping oversight by the city of Wilmore has left the city’s population count in the 2010 census nearly a third lower than it actually is, according to a city official. Wilmore’s population was 5,905 in 2000, according to that year’...

Garrard County Fiscal Court looked into the county’s financial and political future at Monday’s regular meeting. Magistrates heard a first reading of the 2011-2012 county budget and appointed members to the committee tasked with redrawing...

As New Yorkers and Jerseyites in search of more house and a bigger yard migrated to the Lehigh Valley's exploding suburbs, the region's struggling cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton experienced nearly four decades of population flat-lining. But...

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the likely GOP nominee for governor, laid out his plan for the Virginia economy on Tuesday, including tax cuts for both citizens and businesses, axing loopholes and pushing the port. Cuccinelli shared his "Virginia...

A notable example of how Americans fall through the cracks in census data-gathering caught my eye recently. It appeared on the black-oriented TheRoot.com website under this intriguing headline: "I found one drop; can I be black now?" The "one drop" is a...

The Academy Award-nominated movie "Amour" is sparking much-needed conversations about aging, the illness of a longtime companion and dying with dignity. In the film, we follow an elderly French couple struggling with common end-of-life questions, like:...