Today at 10:00 A.M. Greg Fischer will name his transition team at a press conference. Front steps of Metro Hall. [Press Release]
The 2010 Green Convene takes place this Friday and Saturday at Smellarmine. [Click the Clicky]
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced a pilot program to help homeowners pay for energy improvements to their homes. [Press Release]
The USA has a serious problem on its hands. China’s Dagong downgraded the United States’ sovereign credit rating from A+ to AA with a negative outlook. On the brink of collapse, indeed. [Reuters]
LMPD victim advocates are losing their jobs because grant funds are running out. How will Greg Fischer solve this? And why does Jerry Abramson ignore everyone like this that occurs? [FOX 41]
Quite possibly one of the saddest comments we’ve ever received regarding Andrew Compton. [Page One]
The Lyndon firehouse is temporarily closing and nobody is happy about it. [WAVE3]
LEO folks aren’t happy with former candidates dropping them from their Twitter feeds. [FatLip]
The best coffee in the city is headed to Bardstown Road. Michelle, like me, trolls foodie stuff 24/7 and made this nice discovery. If you’ve never had Mike Safai’s beans, you’re missing out. [Consuming Louisville]
This Kings-Facebook thing is making us dry heave. Who really believes an NBA team is gonna roll up into Louisville just like that? [Broken Sidewalk]
9 responses so far ↓
1 AbG // Nov 10, 2010 at 9:01 am
It worked for Betty White and SNL
2 chip // Nov 10, 2010 at 9:16 am
NBA sounds great to me.
Churchill Downs Spring and Fall meets for traveling NBA fans could be a bonus.
Check in on Memphis, Milwaukee, OK City,
Orlando. They seem to enjoy and co-exist with the local sport clubs with education benefits.
3 Jason Cissell - Bellarmine University // Nov 10, 2010 at 9:37 am
Smellarmine? You can do better than that, Jake!
[Yawn] Amateur hour at the ‘Ville Voice comedy club. :-)
4 Bobbie // Nov 10, 2010 at 10:03 am
Jake, the link to the Andrew Compton comment absolutely broke my heart. I am so sad for this young man. What a waste of a young life. I hope his parents find comfort from the outpouring of support from the community!
Just heartbreaking. I also share your sentiments in hoping the guy who did this rots…
5 Bill // Nov 10, 2010 at 1:32 pm
There isn’t the economic base here that can support an NBA team. Look at the local job market and what a disaster it has been for years. In this city, you either better know someone to get a step up, or be ready to work 12 hours a day or more running your own business. Have to ask Jerry and now his son Greg, where are the middle class jobs?
Somehow those two hacks don’t have a clue either in light of Greg Fischer dumping on his workers at Dant Clayton. What a great guy and hey Louisville, this is the bozo you voted for.
6 Stunoland // Nov 10, 2010 at 4:44 pm
I’m not sold on an NBA team in Louisville. I think Louisville should look to cities with a large research university like Austin as a model for growth instead of NBA latecomers like Memphis. Of course both models for growth depend on Louisville not making the biggest urban planning mistake of the 21st century: the current design and funding plan for the downtown ORBP. Even if an NBA team moves to the area they will not stick around long after the inevitable economic collapse when the city tolls itself to build some of the world’s ugliest infrastructure on its image defining gateway.
7 The Tim // Nov 10, 2010 at 8:42 pm
I said it last week and I’ll say it again: Louisville didn’t support the arena football team and two minor-league hockey teams. What makes people think an NBA team will be a success here?
8 Bill // Nov 11, 2010 at 1:41 am
The people that are supporting the whole NBA idea aren’t doing the math. That’s the real problem and the same goes for the fools on the bridges committee. I wonder who is really going to reap the benefits from the bridges. It isn’t going to be the Louisville taxpayer, it isn’t going to be the Southern Indiana or Louisville area commuters. Not to mention all the small businesses on both sides of the river that depend on people buying their goods and services. Yet you have people like Kerry Stemler supporting the whole fiasco.
One has to question the idea of who is getting the kickbacks and financial goodies that come with this project. There is obviously a money element that comes with this bridge. Someone wants it built to make a killing on real estate, construction materials, bidding on construction, etc. There is no altruism in building either of these bridges.
Wonder what the small business community and other businesses in Louisville are going to do when the tolls effectively cut off the average person coming to their businesses. People and business on both sides of the river regularly interact to exchange goods and services. Putting another layer of government pocket picking is just going to keep people from coming to Louisville. Some people will have to due to jobs etc.
Even as crazy as this sounds, maybe this is the Louisville way of shoring up the city by keeping people on this side of the river and keeping people in the city. After all, with the reign of King Jerry the Not So Great and Greg Fischer, its going to make Louisville an even poorer city. After all, wasn’t that the point that Oh Great One made to his own embarrassment in Charleston, WV last year.
Knowing people and having family on both sides of this mighty river, I can assure you that many of them aren’t going to go out of their way to pay an extra 3 to 6 dollars a day to go to Louisville when they can buy a lot of the same goods and services in S. Indiana. Wonder why the Louisville business community hasn’t voiced its opposition to this scheme. After all, its going to hurt them one way or another.
9 Stunoland // Nov 11, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Spaghetti junction tolls are back on the table. Louisville businesses will suffer from this toll and the total destruction of Louisville’s image defining gateway. This city will be the laughingstock of the world if it tolls itself to build this monstrosity.
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