We’re on the patio at the Gardiner Lane Heine Bros. because, well, it was impossible to stay indoors any longer. Join us at the Dan Dry photo exhibit at the ArtXP Gallery in Butchertown tonight. Meanwhile, here’s some stuff to end the week on…. Posing for Vogue: Fashion photographers for magazines like Vogue are probably [...]

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Here’s this week’s big Friday at 4:30 story — Gov. Steve Beshear has called for a special session to deal with the predicted $996 million shortfall in the next fiscal year budget.  The session will begin June 15. That anticipated report from the state’s economic forecasters is just as bad as politicians were predicting –  [...]

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Just for fun, let’s take a look at the official highlights of the Mayor’s budget, accompanied by our own editorial comments. Preserves basic services despite rising costs and declining revenues Anticipates 1.4 percent decrease in General Fund revenues Predicting future revenue is risky, as we learned the hard way. Last year’s decrease was 2 percent, [...]

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Let’s be clear on this. Most people in Kentucky won’t really be affected if a few of the state’s racetracks offer slot machines as a way to gamble. It’s one of those issues, like watching certain shows on TV, that you can choose to ignore if you want. But opponents of slots aren’t going to [...]

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Sorry for the late start, but wasn’t everybody up late watching Southern Belles to hear Kellie’s so-called matchmaking business customers describe what kind of sex they wanted? Sorry, our local sources say the business was fake, fake, fake. They had to give Kellie something to do for the show. Yes, we had to throw up. [...]

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We’re sorry for the 119 folks losing their jobs in Metro Government, but still think that layoffs should have been an option taken a while ago… Flagged: There’s been so much national buzz about the Kindred Hospital in Texas, in which an employee was asked to remove an American flag from her workspace, that the [...]

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During the budget crises of the last year or two, as Metro Government has repeatedly cut back services, closed parks and instituted hiring and salary freezes, the one area that seemed to be off-limits to the budget ax was personnel. Mayor Abramson made several budget announcements in which he was able to say, proudly — [...]

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As you know, we’ve been following the case of the Javanon Soccer Club’s building in the East End. When the Board of Zoning Adjustments held a secret, illegal meeting (a clear violation of the state’s Open Meetings law) prior to its April 20 meeting, it was hard to get answers from officials about how the [...]

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Officials with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration are meeting today with executives from the downtown arena’s general contractor, Mortenson Construction, and Wilhelm Construction, the subcontractor blamed for the April 27 mishap on the site. The meeting is expected to set the groundwork for a final report on the concrete accident, and Wilhelm will [...]

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The Party is Over: Remember when basketball coaches were given a free pass by fans at least until their first loss? The news of the day isn’t good for John Calipari, who sure sounds guilty of impropriety at Memphis. And Billy Clyde wants $6 million from the school. Billy Reed has all you need to [...]

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