Here is John Yarmuth talking about why things aren’t getting done in Washington:

The interview is part of One to One which airs tonight on KET at 6:30 P.M. Eastern.

This week President Barack Obama discussed building a rising, thriving middle class:

Friday marked one year since the deadly shootings in the West Louisville, that left a lasting impact on our community. On Saturday, hundreds of people, including gunshot survivors, banded together with a call for peace. [WDRB]

Just think – it’s all thanks to mismanagement and will be used to pay for that corrupt swap. Louisville’s sewer rates would rise 5.8 percent starting Aug. 1 under a proposed increase that would boost a typical residential customer’s annual bill to about $570. [C-J/AKN]

Jefferson County Public Schools recently announced layoffs affecting 41 teachers. Many of the teachers teach English and work with special needs students. [WHAS11]

Apparently, Louisville is one of the sixth most affordable places to retire in the United States. Locals know that’s just on the surface, though. [HuffPo]

In the wake of the violence, police have spent countless hours investigating the initial shootout that triggered the events that fateful day. There have been no arrests in that crucial case. [WLKY]

Raoul Cunningham was a gangly 17-year-old high school junior when Louisville police came for him at the lunch counter of the old Stewart’s Department Store in February 1961. They handcuffed him, he says, and hauled him off to the old Children’s Center juvenile facility on East Chestnut Street. [H-L]

A judge has not made a decision whether or not the death penalty is on the table for the man accused of killing a Sullivan University student. Gregory O’Bryan is charged in the death of Andrew Compton. [WAVE3]

Indiana has canceled subsidies for a planned $1.8 billion fertilizer plant in the state because of concerns that a Pakistani company involved in the project makes products used in improvised explosives that kill and injure U.S. troops in Afghanistan. [Reuters]

Independent retailers of home goods, drug stores and speciality goods appear to be gaining share within downtown Louisville, according to new data released by JPMorgan Chase & Co. on Friday. [Business First]

Oxbow put D. Wayne Lukas in the record books again with an upset of Orb in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, giving the Hall of Fame trainer his 14th win in a Triple Crown race. [NPR]

A man suspected of murdering a Shively woman Thursday died early Saturday after an 11-hour standoff with police. The woman, 48-year-old Gloria Ross, was found outside the rear of her home in the 3300 block of Fernheather Drive on Thursday evening with fatal shotgun wounds, Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Larry Carroll said. [C-J/AKN]

New Albany Police Chief Sherri Knight said severe mental illness is what led to New Albany resident Jaime Clutter to drown her two children, then herself, in Falling Run Creek on March 13. The bodies were found where the creek runs through Binford Park. [News & Tribune]

Here’s six minutes of Jerry Abramson talking about how he doesn’t really have much to do these days:

Not sure anyone in Louisville would argue that him having little to do is a bad thing.

This week the Transportation Lady talks about KY 873 in Clay County, the place that corrupted Richie Farmer:

Everybody is just cold getting murdered in Shiveley. Don’t tell any of your meemaws who live there. [WDRB]

The Lexington Parking Authority board of commissioners voted Thursday to accept the proposed new city food truck ordinance, subject to several modifications. Seems Lexington takes food trucks more seriously than Louisville. [H-L]

There’s been some progress after a WHAS11 story the other night about a growing problem along Frankfort Avenue and through the Crescent Hill Neighborhood. [WHAS11]

It’s almost humorous to read articles written about Louisville’s economy never going bust. Especially when those articles continue to present as fact that Greg Fischer “invented an automatic ice and beverage dispenser” – which we now know he did not. [National Journal]

The Louisville Metro Planning Commission has made a decision on a controversial high-rise condominium project. The Jefferson Development Group had its sights set on building a 17-story building in the Cherokee Triangle. [WLKY]

Louisville Metro government would not be allowed to commit revenue from an insurance tax increase to an affordable-housing trust fund, Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell told Metro Council members. [C-J/AKN]

Taxpayers have spent almost a half million on a habitual offender who has been arrested 152 times. Officers with the Louisville Metro Police Department recently arrested Alejandro Rodriguez, 33, for allegedly threatening he had a bomb at a gas station. It’s the latest allegation against Rodriguez who has spent more than 2,200 days in jail since 2002. [WAVE3]

The charging committee that petitioned to remove embattled Louisville Metro Councilwoman Barbara Shanklin announced it’s ready to move forward with a hearing following its executive session meeting Thursday. [WFPL]

The new, Louisville-built Ford Escape, the top-selling small SUV so far this year, got a “poor” overall rating in front-end crash tests conducted by an insurance industry group. Only two of the 13 models in the category performed well in the tests. [H-L]

It has become a familiar refrain among those in the local industrial real estate industry — the Louisville market needs more available space for companies that are pondering expansion projects. [Business First]

Jeffersonville Main Street Inc., a nonprofit downtown revitalization organization, announced Wednesday that grants are available through its Front Porch Project to increase investment in the residential areas of Jeffersonville’s downtown district. [News & Tribune]

Jefferson County Public Schools is projected to lay off 41 teachers before the start of the next school year. The district blames budget cuts, especially cuts in federal funding because of the sequestration and a loss of stimulus funds. It could also be blamed on poor management and those, you know, 100+ people making more than $100,000+ a year in the central office. [WDRB]

River Ridge Development Authority Board members agreed to allow River Ridge Executive Director Jerry Acy to negotiate yet another deal for a company to locate in the commerce center. [News & Tribune]

This is what they’re fighting about in Indiana this week. Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller (ZEHL’-ur) says he’ll defend the state’s position on limiting who can sell cold beer against a lawsuit by a trade group representing convenience stores and gas station owners that contend it’s unfair. [WHAS11]

An internal investigation into one of Kentucky’s largest regional child protection and social services office should conclude in coming weeks, said Cabinet for Health and Family Services Secretary Audrey Tayse Haynes. [H-L]

Opening statements got underway Wednesday afternoon in the murder trial of Jeffrey Mundt. Mundt’s co-defendant, Joseph Banis, was found guilty of the Dec. 2009 murder of James Carroll, who was found buried in the basement of pair’s Old Louisville home. [WLKY]

Who wants to place bets on which sorority sister Sadiqa Reynolds will hire to run Metro Animal Services? [Deep LMAS Failures]

For more than a decade a Louisville chaplain has collected ancient swords and dagger, but he recently came home and discovered his house burglarized and his special collection was gone. Guess this means the city is due for another rash of sword crimes. [WAVE3]

Democratic Congressman John Yarmuth says the Internal Revenue Service should examine the tax-exempt status of non-profit groups, but the agency failed to apply the policy evenly. [WFPL]

Your local paper finally realized there was a problem with a religious indoctrination meeting held at a JCPS facility. A religious-based organization that leased space from Jefferson County Public Schools to hold a meeting last week that featured district principals talking about bringing Christianity into the classroom has raised concerns from community members, including a Jewish group. [C-J/AKN]

S&ME Inc. is a Charlotte, N.C.-based engineering and environmental-services firm tapped by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet as a contractor on the Ohio River Bridges Project. The company needed space near the project to house its operations during construction. [Business First]

A quarter-century ago, 54 racetracks had on-track treatment programs to address addictions on the racetrack, principally in the stable areas where employees both live and work. Today, only a few of those 54 programs remain in operation. Moreover, national conferences seldom include worker health on their agendas. [Paulick Report]

Then take that agency’s janky web survey and let your thoughts be known.

Click here to access it.

Here’s the email message that accompanied the LMAS survey link:

We hope you are enjoying the pet you adopted from Louisville Metro Animal Services (LMAS). As part of our quest to continually improve the services we deliver to animal lovers, such as you, we are asking for your feedback.

The following link is for an important survey that will help us gain a better understanding of the opinions of people who own or adopt animals. Your participation in this survey is completely voluntary. To ensure that your answers remain confidential this survey is being administered by an independent, third party research company.

To participate in the survey and share your opinions, please click on the following link. You may also copy and paste the link into your web browser.

http://www.qsurvey.net/lmas

Your opinions are very important to us and will, in combination with the opinions of others, help Louisville Metro Animal Services deliver the best possible experience for animals in our community and the people who care about them.

Thank you in advance for your participation.

Sincerely,

Louisville Metro Animal Services Team

Be sure you’re honest. Don’t hold back.

Of course we get interesting comments about the arena:

J. Bruce Miller // May 14, 2013 at 10:15 pm

I read where the Arena Authority is considering the possibility of refinancing the bonds. Their present interest rate averages a little above 6%. Can you imagine what the interest rate would be when the bond rating agencies note that the major (and only) tenant is a 501(c)(3) charity, which takes 88% of the suite revenue stream by virtue of a lease that was negotiated with the 501(c)(3) charity by many of its largest benefactors and members of the charity’s various boards — which results in the building making a couple hundred thousand dollars a month in what it calls ‘operating income’ but DOESN’T INCLUDE its principal and interest payments. When you include them the INTEREST PAYMENTS, ALONE, ARE APPROXIMATELY $1.6M A MONTH — so the ‘thing’ is losing about $1.2-1.5 million a month! Sorry, but ‘that dog doesn’t hunt’ in New York City — even though the cool-aid tastes good around here.

Possibility City!

The way is being cleared for construction to begin on the new Downtown Crossing. Signs of progress are already visible, with work under way on the safety zone at Waterfront Park. [WDRB]

Can Colonel Sanders win back Chinese diners? Louisville-based Yum! Brands Inc., which owns KFC, reported last week that same-store sales in China plunged 29 percent in April as concerns about the safety of its chicken and the spread of bird flu prompted customers to steer clear of KFC restaurants. [C-J/AKN]

Great, now all of Louisville is going to disappear into a sinkhole just like all of the crazies in Florida. [WHAS11]

A new report says hard times are expected to continue for the coal industry in Central Appalachia, which at one time was the hub of the nation’s coal production. [WKYT]

Two brothers said they’re lucky to be alive after being shot at with a crossbow. Way to go, Louisville! This is why you’re Possibility City. [WLKY]

Kentucky – specifically Laurel County – most certainly isn’t a part of post-racial America. [Page One]

On the 25th anniversary of the worst drunk driving crash in our Nation’s history, the National Transportation Safety Board takes the opportunity to get tough on drunk driving. The NTSB is recommending that states lower the blood alcohol level of drunk driving now set at .08 to .05. [WAVE3]

Kentucky’s change to a managed care system of delivering Medicaid services continues to rile lawmakers, although they’re the ones who demanded cost-savings measures for the health care system for the poor and disabled. [Ronnie Ellis]

The Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District’s new ethics hotline produced just nine cases in the last year — and most are still under investigation, including complaints about misuse of MSD resources. [C-J/AKN]

New soil sampling at the Lees Lane Landfill shows there’s still some contamination at the site, but further testing is needed to determine whether the heavy metals and toxic chemicals found in the tests originated at the landfill. [WFPL]

Louisville Water Co. has entered into an agreement to sell water to a Hardin County entity for the next 50 years. [Business First]

Ohio River Greenway Project Coordinator Shaunna Graf said the struggle to open the K & I Bridge to pedestrians could end in a lawsuit if Norfolk Southern Corp. doesn’t “play nice.” [News & Tribune]