As Kentucky restaurants prepare to open at 33% capacity on Friday as part of Gov. Andy Beshear's "Healthy at Work" guidelines, numerous new social distance and safety policies will be implemented at restaurants across the board, including requirements on personal protective equipment, or PPE, guidelines on how employees should wear face masks and gloves as well as how hand sanitizer should be available in addition to hand-washing stations and tissues. Restaurant owners are adapting to the new...

Friday is the first day restaurants are allowed to reopen their dining rooms in nearly two months. While many small local restaurants are choosing to stick to carry out and delivery options, restaurants with the square footage are adjusting their dining rooms to make way for folks eager for a non-home-cooked meal. And after what seems like endless days of rain, the weather may be perfect for outdoor dining Friday. If you're concerned about eating indoors around other people, or just antsy to...

Under humid, 80-degree heat Saturday afternoon, more than 100 people gathered on the front steps of the state Capitol building in Frankfort for a "Freedom Rally" organized by several conservative groups from across the Commonwealth. As Kentucky begins to reopen after more than two months in shutdown due to the coronavirus, speakers at the rally said the closure was "unconstitutional and unnecessary" and that "the economic consequences are likely to be devastating." Frank Harris, a libertarian...

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer called the racial disparities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic "unacceptable" in a Facebook town hall Tuesday morning. Fischer was pointing to the disproportionate rate of deaths among African Americans who have contracted the virus: in Louisville, where African Americans make up only 23% of the population, they make up 33% of COVID-19 fatalities. The Mayor noted that such disparities have long been a problem in Louisville. One particularly troubling disparity is...

Frazier History Museum — and most history museums for that matter — are usually on the back end of history, often seen as collectors of curated artifacts and documents, not primary sources as history unfolds. But in March, when the 7,500-square-foot museum at 829 W. Main St. closed out of safety and precaution as the coronavirus reached Kentucky, Frazier's staff of curators, historians and educators were left with a colossal task: figuring out how to re-purpose, remain relevant and expand the...