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Revisiting Lexington - "This ‘Big Town’ Has Solutions for Cities Everywhere"
July 23, 2025 · 34 min
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Lexington, Kentucky is closing the racial wealth gap through nonpartisan leadership and civic creativity.
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In this episode
- How one mid-sized city builds genuine nonpartisan collaboration
- Concrete approaches to narrowing the racial wealth gap locally
- Ways Lexington leaders turn civic challenges into workable solutions
- Context for the Next City Vanguard conference episodes coming soon
About this episode
This week, we’re revisiting an episode we released earlier this year, all about Lexington, Kentucky — a city where collaboration and creativity are transforming challenges into opportunities. In this episode, we highlighted how Lexington’s leaders are finding ways to foster nonpartisanship, boost civic engagement, and narrow the racial wealth gap.We’re bringing this episode back now because it offers a window into the themes we explored in even greater depth during our Vanguard conference, held in Lexington just last month. Over the next couple of weeks on this podcast, we’ll be sharing special episodes that bring you along with Next City to the conference.
About Next City
Join Lucas Grindley, executive director at Next City, where we believe journalists have the power to amplify solutions and spread workable ideas. Each week Lucas will sit down with trailblazers to discuss urban issues that get overlooked.
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