“The five or six people who run this town…”
I’ve heard that phrase used dozens of times in about as many different contexts in the 12 years I’ve lived in Louisville. Sometimes the number of the anointed shrinks to two or three, and at other times it swells to 10 or 20…
It’s not uncommon to hear Louisville described as a bastion of old families and old money, but our top 1o – with the exception of Mary Bingham – is solidly self-made. And who would have predicted that someone who was almost universally unknown six months ago – Columbia Healthcare CEO Rock Scott – would be named the seventh-most-powerful person in the metropolitan area?”…