HAHAHA! River Fields is screaming that it’s being bullied because the Metro Council told the group to shove it up its collective ass. Hahaha. This is the best thing ever. What a bunch of bloated cowards. [WHAS11]
The Original Highlands Neighborhood Association is freaking out over The Holy Grale’s purchase of a home directly behind its location on Baxter Avenue. Apparently, they are losing their shiz because – gasp – there could be a bigger bar in the Highlands. [Silly Drama]
We’re continually shocked by Jack Conway’s efforts to white wash his own record and behavior. His latest claim of standing up to the EPA is hilarious. [Page One]
That decapitated baby lady won $1.4 million, thanks to a jury award yesterday. [H-L]
What? Cordish Cos is allowing 4th Street Live to get screwed yet again? Because businesses didn’t pay rent for like TWO YEARS? Imagine that. Might as well give them a few more million in taxpayer funds. [FOX41]
Just a reminder that Greg Fischer and his staff promised to take action on Louisville food trucks. He’s now wussed out. So go out tonight and support your local food trucks. [Consuming Louisville]
Jack Conway says the University of Louisville Hospital is public, not private. Jimbo Ramsey will be calling him in 3, 2… [C-J/AKN]
The bridges “authority” is now reviewing options of construction models for the bridges project. Which means nothing will happen, ever. [Business First]
That Gouker guy was finally arrested in Louisville after Alabama ignorantly put him back on the streets. [WAVE3]
We can’t decide if it’s a positive or just cold embarrassing that this orchestra mess is still going on in public. [WFPL]
Just what Louisville needs. Another shooting in the West End. Hey, Greg Fischer, forgotten that half the city is west of 4th Street, eh? [WHAS]
14 responses so far ↓
1 tweedledum // Oct 7, 2011 at 3:16 pm
River Fields is not the problem. No money, no realistic plan, just political grandstanding after someone finally decided that crack in the Minton circa 1962 is unsafe. And maybe it is, but meanwhile, a cool 1 million is being spent on a dedway over 6th St so a few fraidycats don’t have to let their widdle feet touch the ooky ground. Retro Government is taking us back to “anything goes” development (likely engineered by that local group, Benefits, Ties, and Money) that will kill the street life that feeds….businesses….which create…..jobs. Sort of like that road “diet” on Brownsboro that is juxtaposed with another Council-supported Kroger gas station cuddled up to a Speedway and a drive thru liquor store…. a real environmentally – kind job creator. Politics always gets in the way of good government.
2 jake // Oct 7, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Sure, Greg Fischer’s metro gubmint is a regressive shit pile.
But your remark about River Fields not being part of the problem falls on deaf ears because you’re tied to the organization as a “preservationist.”
3 Steve Magruder // Oct 7, 2011 at 7:23 pm
What some people often conveniently forget is that River Fields exactly is the organization that pushed the concept of the ORBP in the first place via a “political compromise” that added the unnecessary downtown interstate bridge and hyperwidening of Spaghetti Junction.
They directly were tied into the creation of the highly bloated project this community could reasonably never afford. And they knew it all along.
4 cheekman // Oct 7, 2011 at 7:24 pm
River Fields gets a taste of their OWN medicine and they get upset!…..LOL
5 The Highlander // Oct 7, 2011 at 9:28 pm
tweedledum: If Wendell Cherry were still alive, he’d be ‘in orbit’ against the ridiculous expenditure of $900k to build a walkway from a garage to the Ali ‘thing’ and another garage. My guess is — they’ll be 30 people a day going across this ‘thing.’ I hope this isn’t the ‘idea’ that grew out of the Idea Festival, because if it is — that was a waste of time, too.
6 Steve Magruder // Oct 8, 2011 at 9:33 am
Ali ‘thing’? That’s a pretty mean-spirited thing to say about a fine museum/center.
Whether a walkway is warranted is a different matter. I dunno.
7 The Highlander // Oct 8, 2011 at 10:15 am
Mr. Magruder: The ORIGINAL purpose of the Ali Center was to serve a PARTICULAR FUNCTION — to-wit: as a Dispute Resolution Center that would service a national/international purpose of resolving disputes. There are thousands of such disputes a year, including labor/management issues, etc. — all of which would bring significant economic benefit to Louisville and significant notoriety to the building.
It has been a complete failure, because it HAS NOT had the visionary leadership required to utilize Ali’s remaining few years to create that vision. It’s leadership has been morbid and the ‘thing’ has been repeatedly saved by public money and the largesse of Ina Bond Brown — all of which is ‘running out.’
So a $900k ‘bridge’ to ‘no-where’ is not (IN MY KNOWLEDGEABLE OPINION) going to contribute ANYTHING to something that has failed in accomplishing its vision through miserable leadership.
SORTA LIKE LOUISVILLE, ITSELF.
8 stunoland // Oct 9, 2011 at 1:08 am
Riverfields and all their supporters campaign contributions are and have always been the problem.
9 ace hat // Oct 9, 2011 at 2:02 am
Highlander is Absolutely Correct!….The Ali Center is NOT being used for it”s intended purpose as the Vision of what it was for…..And there is NO Local or State leadership that’s capable of leading it in that direction.
10 tweedledum // Oct 9, 2011 at 3:44 pm
I am not tied to anything except logic, but it is ludicrous that preservation is held responsible for everything from acne to birth defects in mice (Tell that to the idiots on 21C Street, or East Market, or last weekend’s fair-goers). And I will go elsewhere … retorts such as yours are as myopic as the blame game being played on the whys of no bridges. It just isn’t as simple as pointing one’s little pinky, blaming Obama, or not watching the economy tanking in front of our very eyes. Buh-bye!
11 jake // Oct 9, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Actually, you ARE tied to it all. You’re a “Preservationist” in Greg Fischer’s administration. Do I need to call you out by name? Of course I do. I’ll always call a Fischer bullshit artist out.
What’s myopic, Debra Richards, is that you continue to spin and blame people like me who ask questions when you know goddamn well what the problem is in this city. Half these River Fields people are invested in my company and even I know what the problem is.
River Fields and preservation are NOT one and the same. That’s bunk and you know it.
12 Mark H (Not Hebert) // Oct 11, 2011 at 11:34 am
River Fields is correct that there is no money and the isn’t a plan, but they are one of the main reasons there is neither.
In an attempt to shield Nita Yuma and the surrounding areas from highway noise, they have forced countless studies alternative plans and by pushing the construction date forward decades, they have increased the cost to construct the bridge exponentially to a point that it is unaffordable without tolls and alternative funding streams.
I do acknowledge that David Jones’ support of the bridge is not as altruistic a gesture as he portrays it since he owns a hell of a lot of land in the east end that could be increased in value with the completion of the bridge, but that doesn’t change the fact that he is correct that it needs to be done and it’s only going to cost more every day that it isn’t done.
13 Rob Mattheu // Oct 11, 2011 at 7:42 pm
“Decapitated baby lady?” Is that necessary?
14 jake // Oct 11, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Yes.
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