[Hoot Gibson]

So build another medical school an hour away from one that is already thriving. Good luck and I really mean it, can't have too many medical schools. Just a reminder UPike is more of an Appalachian school, not just an EKY school, and is certainly more centrally located in Appalachian EKY, Southern WV and Southwest VA.

I never said anything about building another medical school in eastern Kentucky, but you seem determined to attribute that proposal to me anyway.

It's a moot point anyway. The same folks who stole a large share of coal severance taxes from eastern Kentucky are not going to build a new public university where Eastern Kentucky University should already be located - with or without a medical school. Central Kentucky got a second major state university built in Richmond and named it in honor of another part of the state.