From Kentucky Public Radio's Tony McVeighSimpson County, Kentucky, will be the site of an $84 million electric vehicle manufacturing plant.Governor Steve Beshear says Integrity Automotive will hire four thousand workers over the next four years to build ZAP--or Zero Air Pollution--vehicles at the plant."These jobs we’re told will pay an average of more than 20-dollars an hour, not counting benefits. These are good, high paying jobs - the kind of jobs that have been so important to this state for many years and are even more important in this tough economic period," Beshear said.The state put up $48 million in tax incentives to help attract the facility to the Commonwealth. The plant will be built on a 225-acre site in the Franklin Industrial Park.
Rick Howlett was midday host and the host of LPM's weekly talk show, "In Conversation." He was with LPM from 2001-2023 and held many different titles, including Morning Edition host, Assignment Editor and Interim News Director. He died in August 2023. Read a remembrance of Rick here.