Oh noes! Everybody downtown at 3rd & Ali got flooded like woah. That, coupled with the aroma of raw sewage in other parts of tow and pig guts here and there, made Louisville an awesome place. [WLKY]

The United States is committed to success in Copenhagen and beyond. [Ambassador Matthew Barzun]

The fancy pants Oaks and Derby ticket sale has been rescheduled for January 6th an noon. [Churchill Downs]

The Consensus Forecasting Group says Kentucky has an additional $100 million revenue shortfall in the current year. That’s just under $1billion for the next two years. The upcoming biennial budget will likely kill us all dead of the poverty. Gas Station Governor Steve Beshear says he’s working on a plan. Because he’s been so successful with his other plans int he past. [Press Release]

Don’t worry. There’s no crime in Louisville. Nothing to see here. [WHAS11]

Jim King offers up more details on spending priorities and he emails Chief White. Jessie Halladay does her level best to make it seem like everybody and their mother criticized the plan to put more police officers on the street. [C-J]

Is this good or bad? You be the judge. Could mean that the prosecutor can’t find anything and [Fox41]

The Courier-Journal is calling for him to drop out of the race. And they’re still suggesting there’s not a crime or gang problem in Louisville, touting merger and the police department’s cuts as the “best success stories of the decade.” It’s a shame they don’t give this sort of attention to the corrupt Jerry Abramson. [C-J]

Meanwhile, the paper dedicates an entire editorial to – wait for it – speed traps in middle-of-nowhere Indiana. [Yes, Really]