Don’t hold your breath too long. A consulting firm says a high-speed passenger rail line that connects Louisville with Nashville, Atlanta and Jacksonville, Florida could be feasible. [WFPL]
The mother of three of the victims involved in last week’s fatal day care van crash spoke out Thursday. [WLKY]
This city can’t trust Metro Animal Services with its stray animals but LMAS wants you to trust it with your children at a day camp?! [C-J/AKN]
A Louisville man is accused of stealing chain link fence from one church, then crashing into a second church and causing over $1,000 in damage. [FOX41]
If you don’t die from being run over by an obese teabagger on a Rascal scooter or the poverty? You’re probably going to croak from the whooping cough, amen. [H-L]
That’s right, even more of your tax dollars are being wasted on a consultant to find a replacement for Harold Workman. [WAVE3]
Don’t forget what Adam Edelen is up to with your tax dollars today. Such a huge appearance of impropriety does not lend itself to credibility as state auditor. [Page One]
Now Greg Fischer is going to save your kids from you or something with education or something like that. [WHAS11]
Of course Jim King approved $1.1 million to the Louisville Zoo for improvements. While the Zoo obviously needs way more money than that, there were next to no questions asked. Meanwhile, Metro Animal Services rots into a hole in the ground. [C-J/AKN]
AEG Facilities, a Los Angeles-based company that already books concerts and other events at the KFC Yum! Center, has been chosen as the new manager of the downtown Louisville arena. [Business First]
It took Steve Beshear all of five minutes to issue a release about a coal company that’s laying people off in Eastern Kentucky. [WKYT]
10 responses so far ↓
1 jack // Jun 22, 2012 at 10:27 am
Does Steve Wilson work for Cordish? He must have went to the Cordish School for Screwing Taxpayers with Weak Politicians.
2 louisvilleneedsaleader // Jun 22, 2012 at 11:18 am
$1.1 million for the Zoo? What the hell do they need a $75,000 a year development director for? Debbie King may be a good board member and did alot to get the bear exhibit up and going, but she has zero clue of the careless day-to-day mismanagment, the waste of time and taxpayer money by folks who get paid to drive a golf cart ($75,00 development director), or sit in their HR office to gossip all day, or those who been at the zoo a gazillion years and do nothing but collect a paycheck. There is so much waste in administration but yet the Keeper and Vet staff is short-handed and bust their asses to provide a meaningful experience.
3 jake // Jun 22, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Technically, the Zoo is expected to repay the $1.1 million. I.E., there’s revenue producing potential.
4 The Tim // Jun 22, 2012 at 1:48 pm
I would like to see a high-speed train in the heartland, but I think it’s more of a dream than reality. The east coast is the more realistic spot for it.
5 Mark H (Not Hebert) // Jun 22, 2012 at 2:17 pm
If we really wanted to sour economic growth in this country and help the environment, we would be looking at high speed freight rail instead of passenger. This would would help central US ailing economies and make a far bigger impact on high congestion and fuel usage. There just isn’t the financial return for passenger rail traffic that there would be for freight.
I could actually get behind a super freight-train system tying distribution and manufacturing nodes to the big cities and ports. This would make the cost of American goods cheaper and make us more competitive on an national stage.
6 Mark H (Not Hebert) // Jun 22, 2012 at 2:18 pm
“wanted to spur”…not sour. I promise that wasn’t a Freudian slip
7 Studs Turkle // Jun 22, 2012 at 4:42 pm
That might be putting the cart before the horse, Mark. Before that we need to get the finical system in this country under control so that they invest in business and growth rather than stealing Granny’s pension.
8 Mark // Jun 22, 2012 at 6:25 pm
Is is me or is a “Local Newspaper” trying everything that they can do to get people to click on stories online?? I just checked it and they got an “article” about the Louisville Ladybirds in bikini’s washing cars…….
9 Mark H (Not Hebert) // Jun 22, 2012 at 11:07 pm
@ Studs, I don’t disagree that we need a mix of comprehensive tax reforms and targeted increases, along with phased in adjustments to entitlements to reflect modern life expectancies and business markets. However, this must be done without any ability for either side to back out of their commitments.
The politicians have historically shown an absolute lack of fortitude in making necessary cuts to anything, while allowing the proposed tax increases to occur. One will not work without the other, and they must be done in conjunction with no ability for the politicians to cave into pressures. Passing a Federal balanced budget amendment would be a great first step in that effort.
Taxing all of the rich people will only cover this generation of granny’s pensions, but will leave nothing for the next generation’s grannys.
10 I'm So Sure, Helen // Jun 25, 2012 at 5:12 am
I wonder if LMAS will be getting their day camp workers from Dismas Charities?
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