In other news, urban and rural Kentucky joined forces yesterday as Louisville leaders, including the mayor, headed to the hills of Clay County in eastern Kentucky.

The goal?

To build bridges and figure out how city and country can help each other.

We had Mayor Bloomberg from Louisville and several others from his cabinet and leaders from Louisville coming in to share ideas about some of the projects that we have going on.

We shared everything from our downtown economic development, our innovation hub, some of our trails, the distillery that's going to be part of downtown.

Essentially, as I told the group this morning, were dreaming out loud together so that hopefully we can inspire or inspire each other to do even bigger and greater things.

We focused on several areas where there could be great collaboration and great collaboration in areas of tourism, in areas of bourbon manufacturing and other are so many different areas where we can find opportunities to work together for our hometowns as well as for the entire state.

We want to develop regional approaches, regional strategies and work throughout the state to develop a better Commonwealth.

What we felt would be appropriate is to build bridges between the urban and rural areas and tap in on some of that expertise and knowledge of individuals who have done big time, big money deals to help this area grow.

And we think from that perspective, making the networks with the mayor of Louisville and other businesspeople, it was a very successful day.

One of the things that I think about eastern Kentucky, sometimes we have a lot of pride and sometimes that probably can get in the way because we say we can do this on our own.

We don't need help.

We need help.

And these are the experts that were here today.

Maybe give us some help and advice, really a chance to have those partners come in and look at our city and our county.

And maybe there's ways that they can be a partner, be an investor.

If nothing else, give us some guidance and some advice.

We all want everyone to succeed.

We all want everyone to have the same opportunities.

We all face common challenges.

Some of the challenges that are right here in Clay County are the exact same challenges that we're dealing with in Louisville.

If we put our brains together, if we share ideas about what's working and what's not, we can address our challenges and move our hometowns forward and the entire state.

Our state motto may be the best thing you have.

United we stand and divided we fall.

We're one state.

We need to help each part of the state elevate their status and elevate their educational and economic opportunity.

Mayor Greenberg says this was his first trip to Clay County.