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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. events in Lexington are still on despite COVID-19
and last updated 2021-01-15 20:15:10-05
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â Perhaps no celebration of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has been more important than those that will take place around the country on Monday. We thought about canceling, but it was way, way, way too important, said Jay Alexander, a member of the city s MLK committee, which is organizing Monday s march in downtown Lexington.
Alexander, who also works at a local radio station in Lexington, said this year s march is essential because of the progress made within the Black Lives Matter movement. This year s march follows the deaths last year of Breonna Taylor in Louisville and George Floyd in Minneapolis, who were killed during altercations with law enforcement.
Housing advocates demand protections outside Mayor Gorton s house
and last updated 2021-01-14 10:26:07-05
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â Housing advocates protested outside Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton s house Wednesday night as they continued to urge the mayor to implement a ban on evictions through the end of the spring. We need a local eviction moratorium, said Katie Kilcoyne of the Lexington Housing Justice Collective. We don t just need rental assistance because that is not buying people enough time to secure their homes.
The latest federal COVID-19 relief package provided $25 billion in rental assistance and extended the CDC moratorium on evictions for nonpayment until the end of January.
No doses wasted : LFCHD addresses rumors about COVID-19 vaccine supply
and last updated 2021-01-12 19:16:58-05
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â Officials from the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department and Mayor Linda Gortonâs office worked quickly to extinguish the thought that any COVID-19 vaccine doses might be going to waste in Lexington.
âWeâve seen national reports of people wasting vaccine, or destroying vaccine,â said Kevin Hall with the health department. âBut that is not the case here,â he stressed before sharing that the department has received 2,500 doses, and administered that same number.
Gorton said the same about wasted vials, as did a spokesperson from UK Health Care. Last week, in response to an email inquiry, the spokesperson noted that not a single dose had been discarded.