Kenton County’s decision to locate NKU’s Chase Law School and UK’s Medical School on the Butler lot next to the county parking garage in downtown Covington may solve the parking issue for the law school and medical school – but it creates a ticking time bomb for the Northern Kentucky Convention Center that officials need to recognize and address.

I’m writing not as the former mayor of Covington but as the longtime state Senator who led the very difficult fight to secure state funding for the Northern Kentucky Convention Center during the Brereton Jones administration.

Northern Kentucky rallied around that successful fight, deeming the Convention Center’s funding as the region’s No. 1 priority. And it worked: The Convention Center gave the region an attractive asset that improved its visi

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