Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson says local and state officials continue working to keep the new version of General Electric's Consumer and Industrial operation at the city's Appliance Park.GE announced this year that it would likely spin off the Louisville-based operation into a separate, stockholder-owned company. Abramson says government officials are doing all they can to insure that the company--with its thousands of jobs---will continue to call Louisville home."We are working with their personnel as they develop this stand-alone entity. There are a lot of other issues that come into play that we can help on than when they were a part of General Electric Worldwide. So there will be incentives, there will be training assistance as they bring on new lines or new investments," Abramson said.The mayor predicts it will take up to a year for GE to clear all the necessary regulatory hurdles to complete the spinoff.He spoke Wednesday on WFPL's "State of Affairs" program.
Rick Howlett was midday host and the host of LPM's weekly talk show, "In Conversation." He was with LPM from 2001-2023 and held many different titles, including Morning Edition host, Assignment Editor and Interim News Director. He died in August 2023. Read a remembrance of Rick here.