The amount of state funding headed to Kentucky's largest city to support downtown renewal, education, health care and other priorities shows that the days of talking about an urban-rural divide in the Bluegrass State are 'now behind us,' Louisville's mayor said Monday.
Republican legislators and Louisville's first-term Democratic mayor, Craig Greenberg, spoke of the collaboration they achieved during the 60-day legislative session that ended two weeks ago. 'For far too long, folks have talked about this urban-rural divide that has divided Louisville and the rest of the state,' Greenberg said at a news conference attended by a number of lawmakers in downtown Louisville. 'Well those days are now behind us.