Yet Another Herald Expose of Local Corruption

BlueGrass Airport. Kentucky League of Cities. And now KACo:

When the Kentucky Association of Counties sent six people to Washington, D.C., in March 2008 to attend a conference and lobby officials, the $31,700 trip included two dinners totaling $4,277 and a $10,000 cancellation fee for hotel rooms that weren't used.

That trip was one of the most expensive among dozens of jaunts taken by leaders of KACo, a non-profit group that lobbies for counties and provides them with insurance and financing services.

In all, the association's top five executives racked up nearly $600,000 in travel, entertainment and other expenses over the last two years. More than half was charged on the credit card of Executive Director Bob Arnold.

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It's too ironic that just when the U.S. newspaper industry is fading into an online-only shadow of its former self, Kentucky's best newspaper is regularly printing the kinds of stories that could have saved the business 20 years ago.