John Y’s Musings from the Middle: Basketball & Bigger Things

Our state’s greatest challenge –and why the UL Cards don’t get the same statewide love the Hilltoppers do?

There are 418 cities in Kentucky.

Citizens in 417 of them —when asked where they live–say Kentucky

Citizens from the 418th city–when asked where they live– say Louisville

… One day, it’s my hope, we’ll be one Kentucky. We have a lot more in common than we believe. A lot more.

It requires attitudes to change inside Louisville (no city is an island) and across the state (no state today can afford to marginalize its largest economic engine–or not feel connected to its only remaining team in the NCAA basketball tournament.

From whatever city we hail, each has the same last name. Even my city’s full name, after all, is “Louisville, Kentucky”