Jim King’s long-rumored candidacy for Mayor becomes official tomorrow. The Metro Council budget committee chair will make the announcement at Swiss Hall in Germantown at 11:30. He joins businessman Greg Fischer and Metro Council president David Tandy in May’s Democratic primary. Tyler Allen, the 8664.org co-founder, has told us he expects to join the race [...]

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The V.V. just received a statement from Larry Bisig on his potential entry into the Mayor’s race. Not that we believed Bisig was really going to run anyway, but it’s another prominent potential Republican candidate you can cross off the “might-run-for-Mayor” list. Here’s what Larry said:  ”Although the race is very attractive to me, I’ve [...]

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Did anyone else find it odd that Steve Pence, a former federal prosecutor whose client is the accused victim of a federal crime, played the “mentally incompetent” card in the Karen Sypher case? Or that the federal prosecutors, old friends of Pence, decided that Sypher needed to undergo some competency tests? After checking with some [...]

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Still Waiting: We’re looking forward to hearing a new excuse from Metro Government on why it doesn’t have to comply with open records requests in the three days required by law.  Chris Thieneman filed his request last Wednesday, asking for records on the Cordish $950,000 giveaway, and his answer was due yesterday. And More: Now [...]

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But Does It Forecast Floods?: In Lexington, CBS affiliate WKYT is spending $1 million on a fancy new weather radar thingie that it not-so-sheepishly proclaims is “the most important, life-saving advancement in weather technology and forecasting ever in Kentucky.” Of course, the folks at WLEX across town says it’s no big whoop. [LexGo] Nutty Flavor [...]

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All right – please excuse my unpaid shout-out to Southern Tire Service at 601 E Market St (502.582.2877) in Louisville. Cause they did me a solid. They not only provided the best tire service I’ve experienced (and the quickest – you know I’ve been through this a few times recently), but gave me a deal [...]

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On Wednesday, citizens will have the opportunity to complain publicly about the cleanup efforts from the Aug. 4 flooding. An ad hoc committee co-chaired by members Dan Johnson and Judith Green is hosting the public hearings, inviting citizens to talk about the problems they’ve had. Green, in a news release about the hearing, said this: [...]

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The clock is ticking in the case of Chris Thieneman’s open records request over the Cordish business. Today is the deadline for a response from Metro Government on Thieneman’s well-publicized request to see documentation of how the $950,000 from the city was spent on the Sports and Social Club at Fourth Street Live. Metro has [...]

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With the Democratic primary field for the Mayor’s race filling up, local Republicans still seem to be searching for a viable candidate. Forget anyone on the Metro Council, and state Sen. Dan Seum has bowed out. Doug Hawkins? Nope. Steve Pence is said to still be thinking about it, with a decision expected by Labor [...]

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…While laughing it up with Marty Pollio at the Comedy Caravan last night. Is She Crazy or What? News broke late Friday that the prosecution in the Rick Pitino/Karen Sypher case thinks she’s crazy. Or at least wants to find out from an official source. U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn Jr., in a motion, wrote [...]

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