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Focus on Business

Focus On Business: Carla Blanton on the 2015 General Assembly

WEKU | By Bryan Bartlett

Published January 12, 2015 at 9:09 AM EST

Education, economic development, and tax policy are among the focus issues of Commerce Lexington’s 2015 local, state and national Public Policy Agenda. Tom Martin’s conversation with the Chamber’s public policy committee chair Carla Blanton deals with matters before the 2015 session of the Kentucky General Assembly.

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