Capitol/insights is a nightly public affairs program sponsored by Insight Communications dedicated to analysis of current events, state and civic affairs and activities and issues facing Kentucky.

Each week host Bob Babbage welcomes leaders in government, business, education, health care and community affairs for an in-depth discussion of important issues facing individuals and families in Central Kentucky.

Bob Babbage is national managing partner of Babbage Cofounder, a government relations and corporate business development firm based in Lexington, Kentucky.

Babbage Cofounder manages state and federal public decisions with major corporations, assisting CEOs, executive teams and organizations through change initiatives and advocacy. Bob has worked for executives from the Global Fortune 100 to America’s Fortune 1000 to numerous regional companies, start-ups and leading associations on all aspects of lobbying, communications and business strategy.

Bob served as Kentucky's elected Secretary of State, 1992-96 and State Auditor, 1988-92. For both offices he led the ticket in statewide vote totals.

A charter class member of Leadership Lexington, he is the originator of Leadership Kentucky and helped start the Lexington Forum, the Louisville Forum and the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership program in Kentucky.

Bob is frequently called on to offer political analysis for the media and is featured regularly on WVLK-AM. He is the author of Meet You in the Lobby, scheduled for publication in April, 2008, and writes about lobbing in his regular statewide column by the same name. He appeared on the CBS Nightly News in 2002.

Bob completed the Senior Executives Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. For “creative, legacy-making, extraordinary public service” Bob was awarded an honorary degree, Doctor of Public Administration, by Campbellsville University.

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