Stephen Reily

Entrepreneur and community-builder. Founding Director @theremuseum Founder: @IMCLICENSING @SeedCapitalKY

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Government likes saying “Buy American” but doesn’t like doing it - USDA cuts funding for schools and local farmers and calls the best way to invest taxpayer
$ in our communities a “left-wing effort”. https://t.co/G0SKZ49XaV

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A city without a healthy public transit system cannot succeed. Do we want Louisville to succeed or fail? https://t.co/QYTrWCdCtu via @courierjournal

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Local groups look to help Kentuckians get criminal records cleared https://t.co/SijDFH6Ff4

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@adamhedelen My father in law did this on his own property in Jefferson County every Christmas. I had never heard of it growing up in Louisiana.

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@imperfecttl SO true - thank you. I always think of a quote attributed to Jerry Garcia (which may or may not be true): “don’t be the best. Be the only.” We need to find the ways Louisville can do something no other city can do. And then “own that lane.”

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@auroraems (3) with city-county merger, we've failed to use it to develop the kind of bold and shared county-wide vision that it might have made possible. Instead, it reinforced complacency. But another prob here is focusing more on mistakes we made than on what we can get right - onward!

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I wrote this to reflect on how little has changed over the last 50 years in Louisville AND how what defines us can also inform a vision for growth that offers opportunity for all. Can Louisville envision a positive vision for its future? https://t.co/uEy1q6TbF3

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@auroraems What good questions! I can only try to answer that (1) busing revealed that the idea in the 1974 profile that Louisville had avoided racial conflict was illusory (2) JCPS is too complicated for me, but so big that it's surely hard to maximize benefits for students.

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@wrightsteenrod Thanks for being a great sounding board - time to add your thoughts about essential workers into this mix.

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@DanBorsch 2/2 there was really bad pollution here in the past, and I think it paired up with elitism to diminish the appreciate of manufacturing. And we have been slow to embrace our unique regional identity: Southern? Midwestern? Northern? Yes!)

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@DanBorsch As for priorities, my best ideas are in the op-ed. But also: just as a strong downtown is a sign of a strong city (not its cause), I think we should focus on logistics not as the source of growth but as a critical support for a growing manufacturing industry.

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@HDHarrington3 @smarkreilly What I'm positioning myself for is to be a voice for growth and progress in Louisville, and - as I say in the op-ed - to make space where I can for others to speak up in their own way and inspire a bolder future for our city.

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Sadly for Kentucky, AppHarvest was a fraud before it started and both its founder and lead investor are shape-shifters, counting on gullible Americans who will buy their latest message. They may even believe it themselves. But we don’t have to. https://t.co/5pOOYAtMgY

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@mjfree 💙

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If I were Tim Walz I would has asked JD Vance:

As you know, Mr, Smarty Pants lawyer, the Constitution prohibits anyone from being elected President more than twice. If Donald Trump was elected president in 2016 and in 2020, how can he be elected again in 2024?

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@mpabate Congratulations! Very important work.

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Happy paperback publication to this baby! Available at ⁦@carmichaelsbook⁩ and wherever 📖s are sold. Also audiobook available—read by the ✍️

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@DrRickyLJones The backlash in Kentucky has so far been many multiples greater than any progress that resulted from needed investments in diversity and equity. You’re right that it’s clear where elected officials want us to go: further back than we were before.

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@TheRemuseum and I thank you #museumconfidential for the chance to talk and @Philbrook for being a model of opening up the museum (and its stories) as a model of public service!

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NEW 🚨 On the season 9 premiere of #museumconfidential we chat with former @SpeedArtMuseum Director @StephenReily about his new project, REMUSEUM. Listen anywhere you get your podcasts. Or here:

https://t.co/2bH6zlFqMO

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American Museums Have New Missions. Have Their Operations Caught Up? While more American museums center the public in their mission statements than ever, there exists significant gaps between trust and transparency aspirations and reality. By @StephenReily https://t.co/CQ6nOiR7sa