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Covington allows medical cannabis businesses

Photos used courtesy of Jeff Volter But operations will be limited by state-set numbers, required buffer COVINGTON, Ky. – State-licensed medical cannabis operations will be allowed in Covington as of Jan. 1, 2025. The Covington Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to permit and regulate the growing, selling, and processing of medical cannabis under a statewide licensing system creat...

Covington searching for City Solicitor to replace retiring Davidson

‘Exciting place to be right now’ COVINGTON, Ky. – The City of Covington is looking for an attorney to run its Legal Department. With City Solicitor David Davidson retiring at the end of June, the City has posted an Opening for City Solicitor. Davidson, who has been practicing law for 44 years, has overseen the City’s Legal operations since April 2022. He called the...

City wants feedback on proposed changes to short-term rental regulations, licensing

Use comment form, or attend public hearing Thursday COVINGTON, Ky. – The City of Covington is collecting feedback on proposed new regulations for short-term rentals and changes to how rental licenses are obtained. The feedback can be given in two ways: One, detailed feedback can be given by submitting comments in writing using this Short-term rental comment form. Two, brief comme...

How loud is too loud? City updates noise ordinance to add clarity, effectiveness

COVINGTON, Ky. – The City of Covington has tweaked its noise ordinance to make it easier to understand and enforce. The changes include separate regulations for daytime and nighttime monitoring and more objective evaluation of whether noise is unreasonably loud and thus violates the ordinance. The specific changes were first brought to the Covington Board of Commissioners for discussio...

Commission discusses chemical plant odors

The release of a “chemical irritant” at Interplastic Corporation in March 2019 required a “shelter in place” order for residents and businesses of West Latonia. Although options are limited, City taking steps COVINGTON, Ky. – Even while acknowledging “limited options” and “tied hands,” Covington officials say they’re taking steps in...

New City Solicitor brings 42 years’ experience

COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington’s new City Solicitor is intimately familiar with the city – he’s practiced law in it for more than four decades. “Every day of my career, I’ve practiced in Covington,” David Davidson said. “You learn a lot about a community in 42 years.” Davidson’s passion for the city was readily apparent during the inter...

Lulu Northcutt: ‘The First One’

Lulu Northcutt’s 1924 yearbook photo at the University of Kentucky. (Photo used courtesy of UK Rosenberg College of Law.) City’s legal conference room to bear name of female legal trailblazer COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington’s Lulu Northcutt made headlines in a March 6, 1929, article in The Kentucky Post newspaper by doing what lawyers generally do – she filed an acti...

No rental license? Your time’s up

Landlords who operate outside the law will be fined, maybe shut down COVINGTON, Ky. – Time is running out for landlords who are refusing to obtain the required rental dwelling license. The City of Covington has begun issuing citations and $250 fines to property owners who rent out their housing – either on a long-term or short-term basis – and have ignored repeated warnings...

New City Clerk Ellis a problem solver

COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington’s new City Clerk is an amateur genealogist, makes wine and names the labels after her family’s rescue dogs, and was a Girl Scout Troop Leader for 13 years.   But what Covington residents most need to know about Susan Ellis is that she’s a problem solver who loves to interact with the public.   For Ellis, each chapter of her professional...

From federal cases to ‘funky stuff’

When he isn’t knee-deep in legal issues, Michael Bartlett likes to fish. Here he is with a trout in Montana. Departing City Solicitor Bartlett looks back on career  COVINGTON, Ky. – If there’s one thing that Michael Bartlett learned in almost six years in the City of Covington’s legal office, it was to be alert and nimble.   “As the saying goes, no day is t...
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