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KFC announced it’s leaving Kentucky

Fast Company Tech

Kentucky Fried Chicken is being uprooted from its ancestral home state in a shake-up announced Tuesday by its parent company that will relocate the chain’s U.S. The relocation of KFC’s corporate office from Louisville brought a quick response from political leaders in Kentucky. corporate office to Texas.

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Ford will idle its Kentucky plant this week amid semiconductor shortage

The Verge

Ford will idle its plant in Kentucky for a week as the automotive industry grapples with a shortage of semiconductors, ABC News reported The automaker’s assembly plant in Louisville produces the Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair SUVs, and employs about 3,900 hourly workers, according to CNBC. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

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How a Targeted Second Ask Surpassed Its Goal With a Nearly 50% Response Rate

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The American Battlefield Trust was $27,000 short of projected revenue for its effort to save 128 acres of Civil War Battlefield in Perryville, Kentucky, in the fall of 2019. As this particular track of land would essentially complete the preservation of the Perryville site – the last piece of the puzzle – they had to figure out a way.

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Verizon acquires rural Kentucky wireless company Bluegrass Cellular

The Verge

Verizon said Monday it is acquiring “certain assets” of Bluegrass Cellular, a wireless service provider in rural Kentucky. According to a news release , Bluegrass Cellular was the first wireless provider in central Kentucky, launching in 1991. It serves 210,000 customers in 34 Kentucky counties.

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10th Annual Kentucky Nonprofit Network’s Nonprofit Leadership Forum

Amy Sample Ward

Related Links : Kentucky Nonprofits website. This session will explore the basics of measuring the return on investment you make in all technology, and provide an overview of the changing [increasing] fundraising landscape online.

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Amazon’s $1.5 billion Air Hub opens in Kentucky to speed up deliveries

The Verge

billion air hub, located at the Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport, and has started operations there. Image: Amazon. Your Amazon packages may be getting an express ticket — Amazon has finished building its $1.5

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A partnership between Jigsaw and this Kentucky city could be the future of civic engagement

Fast Company Tech

Bowling Green, Kentucky, is known for being the city from which Corvettes roll off the production lines, and for Fruit of the Loom underwear, which is headquartered there. But the city of 76,000 could soon be known for something else: its AI-powered mass civic engagement project that is using public surveys to chart the future of the city.

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