Metro Government needs to stand the eff up to Insight. There’s no reason Louisville should be held hostage when it comes to having a single cable provider. Especially a cable provider that flushes money down the toilet with wasted advertising of outdated and unwanted products. Oh, guess who Insight’s attorney is – Larry Zielke! [WLKY]
Louisville loves to separate itself from Frankfort as often as possible. But it’d be a good idea if you folks started paying attention to the worthless immigration tripe people like Stan Lee are pushing. [Page One]
Come on, people, you knew tolls were going to kill transportation in Louisville. And you don’t seriously believe these bridges are actually going to get built because we cannot afford them. [C-J/AKN]
Metro Council is hosting forums at the NIA Center and at the Newburg Community Center on December 1 at 6:00 P.M. to discuss what the community wants to see in a new police chief. If you’re an officer with LMPD, be sure to show up to make your voice heard. If you’re a citizen who cares, please do the same. You don’t want another chief who is so afraid of the public that he lives in an exclusive gated community, do you? [Press Release]
If you’re a veteran and need a job, don’t forget to attend your congressman’s job fair today. [John Yarmuth]
We’ve hinted at this story for a while and it finally broke. Kentucky’s tourism commissioner was suspended for an unauthorized trip to England. We hear Marcheta Sparrow also has a problem or two of her own that will soon come to light. And not just because she didn’t take action until called out by the press, either. [H-L]
How many times can University of Louisville staffers embezzle hundreds of thousands of dollars with the administration knowing about it? How many times will this occur before anyone holds Jim Ramsey accountable? [Deep UofL Thoughts]
Attention bourbon nerds! This is a very important thing benefitting Bellarmine University. Maker’s & Woodford teaming up. It involves sports. [CLICK THE CLICKY]
The Metro Health Department is once again changing its restaurant grading system. So get ready for even more confusion. [FOX41]
You really should be participating in this Free Coat Exchange to help those in need. [Consuming Louisville]
You break into a gun owner’s home in Kentucky, you better be ready to deal with the consequences. [WAVE3]
Olmstead Parks Conservancy named LouAnn Atlas the new chairman of its board of directors. [Business First]
Jefferson County Public Schools is still discussing the student assignment plan and there’s another meeting planned for this evening to talk about it. [WHAS11]
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1 Novena // Nov 21, 2011 at 9:15 am
“Give Us a Plan, for Pete’s Sake!”
Johnnie Jefferson: “You goin’ to the JCPS meetin’ about the student assignment plan?”
Lucy Louisville: “Isn’t this the 66th meeting on that?”
Johnnie Jefferson: “Hey, hey–66 stands for the devil. We might get lucky this meetin.’”
2 G'town Reader // Nov 21, 2011 at 10:13 am
So both meetings concerning the selection of a new police chief are being held in traditionally African-American communities? Is this coincidence or what? Or have other meetings been scheduled in more diverse areas?
3 G'town Reader // Nov 21, 2011 at 10:16 am
(I am looking forward to Adam Walser’s investigative report at 6pm this evening on pervasive shenanigans at UofL Hospital. Hope Metro citizens aren’t going to engage in more shoulder-shrugging.)
4 Novena // Nov 21, 2011 at 2:44 pm
“A Swift Answer to an Old Question”
Jake, with all due respect, you should not need to ask whether JR will ever be held at all accountable for the cesspool of embezzling and other dirty deeds going on at Belknap. You know the answer: NEVER! He has the goods on KY’s pols and the Board of Cadavers could not be any colder.
5 Laurie Spezzano // Nov 21, 2011 at 5:19 pm
This may not be a popular opinion, but I believe there should be LESS choice of public schools. Public schools are provided to educate our future citizens, and they are paid for by the community, for the benefit of the entire community, not just the parents of current students. Public schools are not a product to be sold to parents (they can choose to buy a private education if they like). There should not be “best” schools in the public system for people to strive and compete and fight over, sacrificing to buy a house in the “right” neighborhood. Take the things that are working in the favored schools, and duplicate them across the board. Assign teachers in a way that spreads the “best” ones around and have them share their best practices. The public education offered should be uniform throughout a community, without all the special marketing ploys to make people want one school over another. I can see someone wanting to move to a different community because of the school system (rural vs. suburban, etc.) but within a school system, a community, public education should be EQUAL. I guess I’m getting old, but in my day you went to the school that was provided for you, and if it was too crowded (it was), you had split sessions and you rode a bus. Sometimes you got the good teachers, sometimes the crazies, but that’s life.
6 The Tim // Nov 21, 2011 at 6:01 pm
I think Don Corleone Jurich had more to do with the firing than Jimbo Ramsey, Jake. Hey, you don’t mess with the Jurich’s money and get away with it.
7 jake // Nov 21, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Then why didn’t Jurich axe her when he first heard about it?
If I’m not mistaken, I first wrote about this before the general election got under way.
By the time I find things out, it’s usually… you know… LONG after both Tommy and Jimbo know.
8 BJ // Nov 21, 2011 at 9:19 pm
I’m glad someone else chimed in on Insight’s wasted advertising. I assume that is a reference to the home phone product. “Hey Insight, I can’t possibly save money by getting something I don’t have in the first place. Never mind the fact that I would have to buy land line phones to use the product.” Silly…
9 jake // Nov 21, 2011 at 9:39 pm
+1 BJ.
Nineteen million thousand flyers for Insight Phone a week. Every other week, about ten thousand official/bill-looking mailers advertising it.
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