Democratic mayor joins Kentucky GOP lawmakers to celebrate state funding for Louisville

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More than $1 billion in state funding will head to Louisville, the largest city in Kentucky, to support education, health care, downtown renewal and other priorities.

The amount of state funding headed to Kentucky's largest city to support downtown renewal, education, health care and other priorities shows that the days of talking about an urban-rural divide in the Bluegrass State are 'now behind us,' Louisville's mayor said Monday.

Republican legislators and Louisville's first-term Democratic mayor, Craig Greenberg, spoke of the collaboration they achieved during the 60-day legislative session that ended two weeks ago. 'For far too long, folks have talked about this urban-rural divide that has divided Louisville and the rest of the state,' Greenberg said at a news conference attended by a number of lawmakers in downtown Louisville. 'Well those days are now behind us.

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