Another day, another public relations disaster for Jerry Abramson. An internal city audit has turned up an expense no one except the Mayor seems to have known about — some extra pay for Police Chief Robert White. It was reported at 11 last night by WAVE’s Lindsay English. Metro Councilman Kelly Downard, always good for [...]

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Metro Councilman Kelly Downard will not run for Mayor next year. Downard ran against Jerry Abramson in 2006, losing in a lopsided result. But with Abramson out, Downard might have had a chance to capture the Republican nomination again. But in a press release this morning, he said he would not run. “In 2006 I [...]

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Here’s the day’s compelling award category over at Page One: Reporter Most Likely to Make You Kick Your Television, Burn Your Newspaper or Toss Your Computer Now certainly the vast ‘Ville Voice audience will want to weigh in on this one, so head on over to Page One and make your Golden Poo nomination. A [...]

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Gone in 50 Seconds: Fox41 got its hands on more evidence in the Karen Sypher case. The station played a tape of some of the :50 of phone calls from Lester Goetzinger to the Coach Rick, in which Goetzinger threatens to go public with info that somehow, is still not public. Fox41 was able to [...]

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The regular criticisms of David Hawpe on the Courier-Journal editorial page are about to come to an end. The paper announced today that Hawpe is retiring, effective August 14. That this was going to happen is, like Jim Bunning’s announcement yesterday, no surprise. It was just a matter of when. Weeks ago, as Gannett was [...]

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It used to be a no-brainer on the first weekend in August. Every political reporter in Kentucky spent the weekend in western Kentucky and got familiar with barbecue, the heat and heated politics. That was before media started watching their pennies and foregoing most travel. And while the prospect of seeing what Jerry Abramson will [...]

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Amidst all the usual cheerleading for the medical community sandwiched between glowing profiles of local physicians, Louisville Magazine’s Top Docs issue, which was just mailed, includes a lengthy examination of the drawn-out battle of the brain surgeons. (The mag chooses not to put its stories online until weeks after publication, so you’ll have to buy [...]

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Five organizations submitted proposals to operate Otter Creek Park, sort of. According to the Courier’s article analyzing the submissions, I think we can save Metro Parks some time, and tell you which one comes closest to what could become reality and allow the park to re-open. Metro Parks says it’s going to make some decision [...]

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What we have here is a big difference in opinion. Here’s some point-counterpoint. Jerry Abramson says he needed Rick Johnstone and Jane Driskell to save the city by working on the budget, so he made a deal and paid them, and didn’t allow them to take vacation. So some extra vacation pay was in order, [...]

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Wills Watch: It’s the last week of full-time forecasting for WAVE’s Tom Wills. The station is running tributes throughout the week. Could that be why the weather’s so nice? KDP Turns to Fossett: We’re glad to see our former co-worker, Liz Fossett, on the 2007 Bruce Lunsford campaign join the Kentucky Democratic Party as a [...]

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