How many Daviess Countians are on Medicaid?
When the folks in Washington talk about cutting Medicaid, how many people are we talking about in Daviess County?
According to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, 31,426 Daviess Countians are on Medicaid this month — up from 31,379 last month.
• It looks like the old Bowen Tire building at 2600 Frederica St. may be about to be demolished.
So, what's happening.
According to the Owensboro Metropolitan Planning Commission, 'All we have received is a buyer for the Bowen Tire lot is wanting to convert it into a restaurant of some sort. No plans have been submitted as of yet.'
• Holiday World & Splashin' Safari in Santa Claus, Indiana, is hiring more than 2,000 people for the summer.
Applications are now open on the Holiday World website — holidayworld.com
An in-person job fair will be on March 8 and phone interviews will be Feb. 22 and March 15.
Holiday World will also host hiring events in Owensboro on March 1.
Starting pay is $13 an hour.
• ZipRecruiter says the average pay in Owensboro is $25 an hour or $51,684 a year.
• WalletHub analyzed the prices of 26 common grocery items in each of the 50 states, 'then compared the prices to the median household income in order to determine which consumers are spending the greatest percentage of their income on groceries.'
Kentucky was fourth-highest with 2.41%.
Mississippi was first with 2.64%.
• Kentucky's general fund receipts were up 4.9% in January and 2.2% for the fiscal year so far.
And road fund receipts increased 8.2% for the month and 1.2% for the fiscal year.
• The state said this week that Kentucky once again set 'an all-time record for products shipped globally, with $47.7 billion in exports in 2024. The commonwealth broke the record set in 2023 with an 18.7% increase over the previous year.'
Canada is Kentucky's top export destination, with over $9.3 billion in products.
The United Kingdom (more than $4.9 billion), France (over $4.7 billion), China (more than $4.3 billion) and Mexico (over $4.1 billion) remain in the top five destinations for Kentucky-made products.
• Aldi says it plans to open more than 225 new stores in 2025 as part of its five-year growth plan.
The company previously announced plans to reach 800 new stores by 2028.
Last year, it opened nearly 120 locations, bringing its total store count to more than 2,400.
• Chicken Salad Chick says it opened nearly 40 new locations last year, giving it a total of 288 restaurants in 20 states.
• U.S. Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Mark Warner, D-Va., have introduced the White Oak Resilience Act to use more federal resources protect the tree.
Kentucky bourbon is aged in white oak barrels.
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