The final word on the access dispute that yielded an open meetings and open records violation, a four year legal battle, multiple thousands of dollars in attorneys' fees, and the disclosure of facts less damning than embarrassing.

(On the bright side, there is this:

https://cases.justia.com/kentucky/court-of-appeals/2018-2017-ca-001423-… ).

Linda Blackford, who watched the story unfold from beginning to end, has the last and best word:

"It's unclear why UK officials would want to make a two-week story a four-year story, when in the end, the documents back up UK's narrative of a culture clash, rather than a criminal conspiracy. The arrogance of a public institution declaring that it is not subject to the Attorney General in an open records case is particularly distressing.

"When UK HealthCare saw problems in its operations, it moved quickly to solve them. It remains a mystery why UK then chose to keep what it found and what it spent a secret for so long."

Preach it, Sister!