More on the tourism flap between Ozark and Lake Cumberland, Kentucky

A news release by Kelly Linck, head of the Ozark Mountain Region Tourism Association, has rankled some in Kentucky as being misleading. In an attempt to lure tourists from Kentucky to Arkansas, Linck's release referred to a water shortage crisis that leaves Lake Cumberland boaters and fisherman "high and dry." Kentucky Tourism Commissioner Randy Fiveash sent Linck a letter last week saying that the move was totally inaccurate and asked him to stop spreading it. "I was just shocked," he told the Lexington Herald-Leader. "We just don't do things like that to each other."

Joe David Rice, a member of the Arkansas Parks and Tourism Commission, called Linck's action unprofessional, inexcusable and misguided. "Evidently we have a nut in the tourism business over here," Rice said. "We want to distance ourselves from him as much as we can. He's embarrassed us. He is not speaking for the state." Here's the article from the Lexington Herald-Leader.