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That Sure Didn’t Take The Grease Bucket Very Long

June 12th, 2012 by jake · 1 Comment

The agency overseeing the KFC Yum! Center voted Monday to remove the Kentucky State Fair Board as the arena’s manager, less than two months after a consultant raised concerns about high operating costs under the board. [C-J/AKN]

Greg Fischer’s “commission” likely won’t do a darn thing to help the West End and it’s already caused the community to lose interest. Will this new effort be any different? We can only hope. [WLKY]

The University of Kentucky has laid off the long-time director of the Martin Luther King Cultural Center on campus, but the center will remain open, a spokesman said. [H-L]

Health care costs are weighing on Americans’ minds — and sapping their budgets, according to a new survey that shows that within the last year, more than half of people needing medical care didn’t get it because of the expense. [HuffPo]

Here’s a bit about those Jefferson County Public Schools cluster changes everybody is talking about. [WAVE3]

Jefferson County Public Schools Superintendent Donna Hargens got a glowing review from school board. No mention of her hiring disaster or continued wasteful spending. Nothing to see here, everything is puppies and rainbows, move along. [C-J/AKN]

You can read some puppies and rainbows comments from JCPS about Hargens if you so desire. [FOX41]

Forbes has ranked the Louisville Bats as the seventh most valuable Minor League Baseball team. [Business First]

Even with a speech, some opposition and an unexpected motion, Greater Clark County Schools voted in Andrew Melin as the district’s new superintendent Monday night. [News & Tribune]

Why the hell is the mainstream media still wasting time and resources on this Susan Lukjan situation? [WHAS11]

Louisville isn’t even in the top ten manliest cities in America this year. Possibility City comes in at a compassionate 11. [This Is So Dumb]

Louisville’s Air Pollution Control District will hold a public hearing [today] to let residents weigh in on two pending air pollution permits. [WFPL]

Tags: Arena · Bad Behavior · Education · Health Care · Hype · Indiana · JCPS · LG&E · Louisville Bats · Poverty · University of Kentucky · West End

1 response so far ↓

  • 1 E // Jun 12, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    I think we can safely attribute Louisville’s rise in the ranks of manliest cities (up 2 spots) to the proliferation of high school rugby !

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