More Green for Green Projects: Today the Dept. of Energy announced that $25.3 million in federal funding is coming to Kentucky to help create jobs, save energy and conduct energy efficiency audits. Veep Joe Biden said it would be up to local leaders to be accountable for investing the money wisely. Uh oh. Check the [...]

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Here’s a follow-up on a story we told you about yesterday in which LEO’s open records request for documents pertaining to the creation of a Metro Government anonymous tips line. The Jefferson County attorney’s office denied the LEO request, saying the documents were preliminary and therefore not covered by open records. LEO editor Stephen George [...]

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You may know that because of the digital TV transition that was supposed to happen last month, the pointyheads at Nielsen decided to conduct the February ratings sweeps in March. So you’re seeing some extra effort turned in by the local news teams, despite the general wisdom that these sweeps won’t really matter because they [...]

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Here at The ‘Ville Voice/Page One HQ, we’re grateful that so many of you spend at least a part of your day reading what we have to say about whatever. Thanks to you, we’ve been able to build an amazing audience, one that continues to grow. Lately, when we’ve been out talking about the site [...]

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While Kentucky politicians say they’re cracking down on payday lending practices (though the bill just passed in the legislature puts no real limits on interest rates), one independent Kentucky bank has moved from payday lending to tax refund anticipation loans and run into criticism on a national level. Republic Bank was one of just three [...]

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The eighth annual Forecastle Festival will have a heavy dose of high-profile music at its July 10-12 party down at the Belvedere. The Music, Art and Activism Festival will feature Widespread Panic, the Black Crowes, the Black Keys and the Avett Brothers among the 65-plus musical acts scheduled to perform. Forecastle organizer JK McKnight calls [...]

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Don’t Say We Didn’t Remind You: There are only a few hours left for you to win tickets to the Cowboy Junkies Saturday. Plan to attend the Louisville Brewfest at the Clifton Center tomorrow, where they’ll have the U of L game on. The News at 10: Watch this space for a big Forecastle Festival [...]

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This Saturday, the Canadian alt-rock group the Cowboy Junkies are playing a show at Whitney Hall with the Louisville Orchestra. It’s the final show in the BB&T Strings Attached series. In their bio, the four-member band claims to have put the country into alternative, and put alternative into country. Sort of like being cable before [...]

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In a press conference announcing the release of the Metro Event Resource Guide at the Green Building Tuesday, Mayor Jerry Abramson was telling event organizers about how great it is that the city has so many wonderful events. One of the event organizers asked him if he could give them all a break on fees. [...]

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LEO’s Phillip Bailey really got some people’s attention down at City Hall last week. His March 18 story about the city’s  failures to install an anonymous tips line drew angry responses from the Metro’s Auditor and the Mayor’s chief spokesman. Auditor Mike Norman says that Bailey’s piece was misleading, and wrote a letter charging that [...]

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