Win free Bats tickets, hiking & biking, Jerry Abramson and the housing scandal, illegal secret meetings, lawsuits against the University of Louisville, former Lexington Mayor Teresa Isaac’s involvement in myriad scandals (See that, TI? Internets, television and radio – we won’t shut up), the Lexington Library and crazy corrupt spending sprees (there’s a former Library [...]

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What? It’s Only Been a Year: That’s right, a year since the Metro Council dedicated $1 million to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Mayor Abramson was supposed to appoint a 13-member board to raise more funds and take some action. But nothing’s been done, and the Administration is rolling out excuses. [Courier] Isaac’s Bid [...]

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Now that was quite a Memorial Day weekend. You got out there and set attendance records, and got some yardwork done too. And at the risk of going all “Possibility City” on you, it was a great time to live here. The crowd estimate for the Mayor’s Hike & Bike was about 2,000, though one [...]

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Preservationists came away from yesterday’s six-hour meeting with the Metro Planning Commission frustrated about Michael Gordon’s penalty for ignoring binding elements for preservation of the Peter Funk House, located at Hurstbourne Parkway and Taylorsville Road. As reported by Fox41′s Dick Irby, Gordon left unhappy as well. But the attorney for preservationists, Stephen Porter, summarized the [...]

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The Javanon Soccer Club’s construction of a soccer building off Tucker Station Road has gotten a lot more press that it probably deserves, but here’s some more. Here’s the way we see it. Bill Bardenwerper, attorney for Javanon, communicated to Planning Director Charles Cash and the Board of Zoning Adjustments that he didn’t want the [...]

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Just watched that Southern Belles premiere, and it’s really hard to decide which of the five girls is the least likeable. Though it really has to be Shea, the rich one who is attempting to coerce her boyfriend Jeff into buying a $250K engagement ring by flying him up to Chicago to shop on a [...]

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That Crazy Woman: Anybody want to guess why that Karen Sypher would go on the air at Fox41 to say she’s looking forward to the trial, so the “truth will come out.”? Or why the station would interview her, again? Was it just to see what she’d wear to the interview? Did her attorney, Thomas [...]

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Maybe Mark Bolton, who has been chief of the inept Department of Corrections since November, is finally ready to start making some changes. Yesterday he fired deputy director Laura McKune, explaining through spokesperson Pam Windsor that it was time for “a change in leadership.” Windsor said McKune was the third highest-ranking member of the jail [...]

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Quite an interesting day in the V.V. newsroom… The Real Republican Senate Candidate: While we’re all getting some good laughs out of the Jim Bunning/Mitch McConnell dust-ups, Trey Grayson is getting serious about the race. [Page One] This Might Just Refer To You, But Not Me: 30 percent of Kentuckians don’t participate in any exercise [...]

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What seemed like a simple change involving the Mint Jubilee Derby Eve gala has devolved into a legal battle pitting the event’s co-founders against the University of Louisville. Today Chris Thieneman is filing a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court charging the U of L Foundation and the Brown Cancer Center with federal trademark infringement, [...]

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