Regular readers of these pages might recall our story this January about Brad Kelley, the reclusive Kentucky tobacco billionaire who owns the former Agilent Technologies campus in Loveland.

Well, now the Wall Street Journal has written about Kelley, revealing a few tidbits that might help anyone who cares understand Kelley a bit more.

For example, the Journal reported that Kelley makes his own bourbon, sometimes wears a kilt and doesn’t smoke.

“I never defended it,” Kelley told the newspaper in speaking about his days as a cigarette baron. “Hopefully it will be phased out of society.”

The Journal described Kelley “a shrewd businessman who avoids the limelight.”

Well, that was already pretty clear to a lot of Northern Coloradoans.

Kelley has been very quiet about his dealings in Loveland. Efforts by his company, Cumberland & Western Resources, to develop the old campus into a technology center have yet to lift off.

Cumberland & Western paid $5 million in cash for the property nearly a year ago. Shortly afterward, the Colorado Association for Manufacturing and Technology decided to withdraw its Aerospace and Clean