24-year-old jockey Michael Baze was found dead in his vehicle at Churchill Downs. [HuffPo]
An environmental group – Appalachian Voices – is suing a coal company in Bardstown over alleged clean water act violations. [H-L]
Metro Council has deemed the Whiskey Row/Iron Quarter ordinance an emergency. [WFPL]
So gas prices are at a billion dollars per gallon. Will you actually walk more and drive less? [WHAS11]
Here’s a non-shocker: a report links fracking to tainted drinking water. [Reuters]
Naturally, gas firms are attempting to dispute the study linking fracking to water contamination. [HuffPo]
As we reported yesterday, the General and Road Funds in Kentucky were both up more than seven percent during the month of April. [Page One]
Maker’s Mark, which makes the most magical stuff on earth – Maker’s 46 – is making its fancy television debut. [C-J/AKN]
Do you live near one of those fancy brothels that were busted recently? [WAVE3]
Carol Haddad says bullying on school buses has gotten worse recently. But has it? Or has the issue just gotten a lot more attention than it has previously? [FOX41]
Okay, we admit it – we’re a bit excited for the St. Matthews Farmers Market to open this weekend. Don’t miss it. [Consuming Louisville]
Here’s how the right-wing looks at the Whiskey Row/Iron Quarter deal. [84WHAS]
7 responses so far ↓
1 Mark H (Not Hebert) // May 11, 2011 at 8:42 am
While it would great to move away from fossil fuels completely, it’s not realistic at this junction. A move away from coal to natural gas makes immediate sense in both destruction to the environmental and a reduction in carbon emissions.
While we see more and more stories on fracking, we need to keep the impact in perspective and ask why we are not giving the same attention to massively more significant groundwater impacting practices. It’s hard to not question if this focus is to blunt a move to utilize domestic hydrocarbons in the name of saving the groundwater.
So let’s compare the impact from fracking to the impacts from dry cleaners. There are 36,000 active dry cleaners in the US, of which 75% have impacted to the soil and groundwater with Perchloroethylene (PCE), which has an action level of 5 parts per billion in groundwater. Tens of thousands of private wells and many municipal wells serving millions have been impacted by PCE, but where is the outrage?
My point is not to dismiss the adverse impacts by fracking, but to rather point out that I think there is a little politics than there is science when it comes to the dire warnings a outrage. I guess the mom and pop dry cleaner owner isn’t as popular to demonize than “big oil.” So let’s see what we can do to safely frack instead of throwing out the idea and keep outsourcing our pollution to other countries.
2 Kevin M // May 11, 2011 at 9:14 am
Is that the correct link to the WHAS Whiskey Row/Iron Quarter story? Pretty brief story with only one comment. I don’t see the “right wing” spin on this one. I was expecting a comment section filled with RWNJ’s lamenting the government’s interfering with Blue’s “right” to destroy his property and ruin our downtown.
3 jake // May 11, 2011 at 9:16 am
Who said there was spin?
The point: nearly everyone is on the same page, as it’s apparently not as partisan as some would have had us initially believe.
4 Sunny_Disinfect // May 11, 2011 at 3:00 pm
I just want everyone to do what they have now committed to doing. I don’t have a problem with putting $1.5 million toward preservation of a vital block, but I don’t want to be “Cordished” again. I know that we’re no longer under the boot of Mayor McCheese and that LL Brown and S. Wilson are not Cordishites, but “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and shame on me”.
5 Mark H (Not Hebert) // May 11, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Sunny, nobody ever likes to get Cordished….actually that’s not true. It least if we’re going to get Cordished, they could at least kiss us first.
6 jake // May 11, 2011 at 7:14 pm
Do you REALLY want to get kissed by Paris Hilton?
Think carefully before you answer. Be sure to consider any possible health issues that could arise.
7 Mark H (Not Hebert) // May 11, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Didn’t you know that they struck a co-branding deal with GlaxSmithKline to provide a complimentary bottle of Valtrex with each Cordishing session.
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