It’s Kentucky straight in Lexington City Hall

Mayor Linda Gorton has been in politics long enough to know how to dodge a reporter’s question. Asked three times if she voted for Donald Trump, Gorton responded with a smile.

There’s a reason. She’s a dyed-in-the-wool nonpartisan, despite being a registered Republican.

“I don’t talk about who I voted for in anything, really,” the first-term mayor said in an interview in her downtown Lexington office, located in a city government building that was once a historic hotel. “For 16 years, I served on the council and was vice mayor...