The guy who was fired because he dared report the director for being a criminal? (Yes, driving drunk is criminal behavior – murderous, even)

Funny how that works.

We didn’t mention that he’d gone to Metro officials before calling 311 and before reaching out to WAVE3 (didn’t break the story – someone broke it for them). Many times. And nothing ever happened. Greg Fischer swept it under the rug.

And now all kinds of lawyers are swarming.

Jim Mims, after a serious public shaming (Greg Fischer, too), had a change of heart on Occupy Louisville. But they forgot to notify the Occupy folks. [WFPL]

Hurry and put up that pay wall, Gannett, so your first quarter earnings can fall another 33%. Hurry up! [C-J/AKN]

Steve Bittenbender filed to run for the 37th District State Senate seat. That’s the seat Democratic embarrassment Perry Clark currently holds. Will it float? [SoS]

Sorry, John David Dyche, regardless of what Jim King puts out in his front, he does not have a great working relationship with Greg Fischer. In fact, he doesn’t even have a good working relationship with his former staffers, campaign staffers or most of the people who advised him until recently. [C-J/AKN]

This New Albany cop who spewed racist rhetoric now says his comments weren’t racist and is appealing his suspension. [FOX41]

A judge in Frankfort will today decide on the filing deadline in the redistricting mess. [H-L]

Will Louisville win that tastiest town thing in Southern Living? Probably not and all kinds of people will freak out about it because it’s obviously the end of the world. Greg Fischer will even issue a release about it and talk about it on Twitter and Facebook. [WAVE3]

Nashville is working to attract international tourists. Louisville doesn’t even work to attract tourists in its own state. [Business First]

Robert White’s son was arrested again and everyone is losing their mind over it. Apparently, it’s even more important than that tasty town contest. [WHAS11]

This is the wet dream of Steve Beshear and Greg Fischer. The absolute tops for them. You know they’re aching to pull this stunt. [Mother Jones]

Wait, would you rather people be so drug/high that they fall asleep at a restaurant or while driving away from the restaurant, like Greg Fischer’s official parks guy could have done? [WLKY]

Nothing will make you more proud to be a Kentuckian than having some of her magic at Jack’s Lounge or Equus in Louisville.

So take a look at the latest show, filmed in part in Louisville:

Kentucky Proud!

It’s time for a reality check on the meth problem in Kentucky. If we’re gonna get a handle on this issue, we at least need to keep the facts straight. [Page One]

Today at noon, the Louisville Forum will focus on public charter schools. There will be all kinds of boring arguments. Hal Heiner will likely chap Brent McKim’s rear. [Fun Times]

Charter schools aren’t going to happen in Kentucky this legislative session. The Hal Heiner push is a total waste of secretive money. Until those folks realize this isn’t a partisan issue and stop pushing only the conservative bits and pieces, it’s dead and the water and should remain dead in the water. [H-L]

Louisville residents are putting up a “stink” over delayed trash pickup because it’s the first thing that directly impacts them from Greg Fischer. Every other nightmare he’s sat at the helm of is out of sight, out of mind in their world. [C-J/AKN]

Demolition is set to begin at the nearly-vacant Sheppard Square. Will this turn into a good thing? [WAVE3]

Michigan’s treasurer says that Detroit will run out of money by May. Will Greg Fischer learn anything while he’s there? Or will he return from Detroit to make out-of-touch remarks about that city, comparing it weirdly to Louisville? [Reuters]

Free parking around Fourth Street? Haha, right. Louisville can’t get Fourth Street right. Why are we still pretending that we can? [FOX41]

A new report shows that Kentuckians are frequent binge drinkers. That may have something to do with their quality of life. [Business First]

We won’t be wasting much time on rehashing this latest LMAS story (it’s not new) because there are much bigger problems. We can think of a million things more important than a woman trying to get money from taxpayers because two nasty people treated her poorly. [WHAS11]

Tom Owen’s concern over trash pick-up has fired more than a handful of people up. Meanwhile, MSD is getting swept under the rug. [The 'Ville Voice]

Maybe you can safely have a vehicle in St. Matthews again. Police made arrests in 30 car break-ins. [WLKY]

Are the arena bonds about to be downgraded? Because that good be a very bad thing. [Bond Buyer]

The truth about the Keystone XL pipeline? Doesn’t look like the McConnell-Republican claim of jobs is based in reality. [HuffPo]

This is truly the American way. Presiding over and knowing about the theft of millions of millions of tax dollars and getting rewarded with bonuses and raises worth millions. [The 'Ville Voice]

Gasoline prices jumped a whopping 40 cents over night and Jack Conway isn’t batting an eye. Price gouging? What? [WAVE3]

Basically, no business in Frankfort get handled until after the Kentucky Chamber day on January 5. [Business First]

The entire community – or, just the few people in town who even know there’s a bridges debacle going on – are foaming about the Drumanard Estate’s historic status. [FOX41]

Occupy Louisville is pushing a discussion on homelessness. It’s fitting, since Greg Fischer doesn’t see it fit to allow even those without homes to sleep in tents in the dead of winter. Are we still pretending that Founder’s Square park is ever used by anybody for any reason? [WFPL]

Evicting the Occupy folks downtown is sure to end on a really positive note, right? Because it’s ended so well in so many other cities. [WLKY]

Absolutely nothing could be bad about this. White Castle is considering selling beer and wine in some markets. [WHAS11]

Yesterday Rand Paul and his wife had some really upbeat and happy holiday thoughts (?) for you. Check the awkward video out. [Page One]

This is a good thing, right? Ramsi Kamar is building an organic farm to provide tasty goods. [Broken Sidewalk]

Ruh ro – here come the big dogs calling Greg Fischer out for pulling a campaign finance bait and switch. [C-J/AKN]

These folks in Los Angeles are crying about 18 dogs getting euthanized. They need to get their asses to Louisville. [HuffPo]

Jerry Abramson is already hard at work trying to ruin Kentucky even more than he ruined Louisville. [84WHAS]

Greg Fischer has ordered a city-wide review of overtime policies and procedures. This is sure to end in a flustercuck. [WHAS11]

You won’t find us complaining if A Kentucky Newspaper throws up pay walls. [Gannett Blog]

Drunk Metro Parks director Mike Heitz is already back at work. Greg Fischer is allowing every joke of an official he’s got on the payroll to make massive mistakes without any consequence. We can hear the campaign commercials now. [WAVE3]

Yum Brands avoided paying state income taxes despite large profits. And we’re supposed to be surprised. [H-L]

We’re glad to see the local media is paying attention to a proposal in Frankfort that would create a tax-free weekend for educational purchases each year. [FOX41]

There’s a fancy holiday green gift fair on Saturday at Rainbow Blossom in St. Matthews. [Consuming Louisville]

Construction is set to begin on a new 21c Museum Hotel local in Bentonville, Arkansas. [Business First]

Riverport businesses are paying for their own police station in an attempt to combat area crime. [WLKY]

Kevin Cogan is once again trying to build a 17-story building in Cherokee Triangle. Here’s a look at 2008 versus 2011. [Broken Sidewalk]

Isn’t it convenient that Greg Fischer’s taxpayer-funded staffers are pushing this city-wide overtime review story like crazy now that we’ve gotten word out about his campaign finance bait-n-switch? [WHAS11]

Wondering what Anne Northup is up to these days? She’s involved in the partisan gridlock threatening the Consumer Product Safety Commission, that’s what. [WaPo]

Okay, kids, should we be holding our breath that Greg Fischer will actually selected a chief for the LMPD that officers respect and the city will appreciate? [WFPL]

Lexington Mayor Jim Gray has postponed plans to alter that city’s police take-home car program. They could learn a lot from Louisville. [H-L]

Today at 10:00 A.M. Congressman John Yarmuth will take part in the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing to discuss current foreign policy with Iran. [Press Release]

Really, this is the same protest that’s been going on since 2002 or 2003. Same people, even. Just a deeper cause. [C-J/AKN]

The University of Louisville received a $1.1 million grant from the Department of Education to help JCPS students via the Talent Search program. We apologize for the Robert Felner-related PTSD moment we just caused. [FOX41]

IMPORTANT: Third Annual Highlands Beer Festival. The only thing more important would be a Highlands Bourbon Festival. Get on this thing. [Consuming Lousiville]

Animal abuse is alleged at an area shelter that is not Louisville Metro Animal Services for a change. [WAVE3]

The Humana Foundation is pledging $600,000 in grants to help two Metro United Way charities reach their funding goals. The rest of our wealthy companies in town need to follow suit. [Business First]

Is your car more than ten-years-old? Then no title is required and no mandatory waiting period exists for it to be stolen and sold to a scrap yard with ease. No questions asked. [WHAS11]

Your local big town newspaper essentially ignores the mega scandals going down with a hospital in Owensboro. You should probably pay attention because it mirrors much of what is occurring with the University of Louisville’s planned merger. [Page One]

Should we bother holding our breath for the mainstream media to take an interest in this KCTCS scandal that’s been going on for a few years? [Page One]

Ruh ro – looks like Caudill Seed could have a problem on its hands. Now that a former high-level employee is alleging tainted food was pushed to market. [Adam Walser]

Unlike some Louisville bloggers, we don’t take freebies or payoffs. We never accept anything for reviews. And when we do get goods (never for reviews or mentions), we give them to readers. We also don’t have a PR firm writing our stories and passing them off as legit. [Gawker]

Jefferson County Public Schools is asking the Kentucky Supreme Court to review its student assignment plan. [C-J/AKN]

Folks in Louisville typically don’t think of Lexington being worse than, you know, here. But maybe that’s changing with all the shootings? [WLEX18]

With Metro Council approving the local redistricting plan, who’ll be the first to freak out? [Press Release]

It’s been only a week since the repair contract for the Sherman Minton was awarded and people are apparently freaking out that construction hasn’t already begun. [FOX41]

There’s apparently another beer place opening up in Germantown. [Consuming Louisville]

This is why political robo-calling is ridiculous and should be outlawed in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. [WHAS11]

Louisville’s unemployment rate rose to 10.3 percent in September and nobody is happy about it. When you consider all the folks that have just cold stopped looking for work/fallen off the unemployment rolls, you should be loosely anxious. [Business First]

It’s interesting that the local media harp on Robert White when his family gets into trouble. They never bothered when something happened with Jerry Abramson’s family, though. [WLKY]

Dramatic evidence that the American dream is slipping further out of reach for far too many Americans, indeed. [Mother Jones]

Congressman John Yarmuth summed things up quite nicely yesterday. [Twitter]

Hilarious: One of Jane Driskell’s pals has been emailing us, telling us we have no clue what we’re talking about when it comes to Greg Fischer. HA! [Louisville Is Screwed]

Yep, Jerry Abramson’s past is being forever ignored by the mainstream media. The Democrats, who have hated him for years, are suddenly in love. [Page One]

It’s interesting watching FOX41 (still WDRB? no affiliate?) report on the WAVE3 Heitz situation without ever mention that station brought the story to life. [FOX41]

Jake’s kitchen leads people to believe he is 100% Indian so Diwali is something he’d want us to mention. [Consuming Louisville]

That’s leadership, transparency and change you can believe in. Here you go. It’s Greg Fischer. Defending his decision NOT to fire Mike Heitz for getting caught as he was about to drive his city vehicle after drinking. Even though he only stopped because he got caught. Told ya he didn’t have the courage to do the right thing. At least EMS – with its embarrassing leader – knows when to can people for bad behavior. [WAVE3]

Humana has apparently improved in Newsweek’s “green” rankings. Maybe more local companies should follow this lead. [Business First]

Call us heartless for not being surprised that daytime violence like this is occurring at a Cordish joint. [WHAS11]

How does your local Clear Channel affiliate cover the Occupy Wall Street protests? By saying they’re all rioting. [84WHAS]

Hope you trust your Metro Councilcritters. Because they’re redrawing council districts and will vote on the final map today. [WLKY]

A whopping 62% of Jefferson County Public Schools students receive assistance with meals. That’s more than food for thought. [C-J/AKN]

Will Metro Council have the guts to call on Greg Fischer to take action? Nope, they just whisper behind the scenes in fear. [WAVE3]

Really, allowing Heitz to return to his job or to resign not only sends the wrong message but proves Greg Fischer is incapable of doing the job he was elected by a hair to do. [Business First]

Announcing that everyone with a city car will undergo training with how to use it? Really? That’s the action he’s going to take? [WLKY]

We pointed out what a great opportunity this would be for Greg Fischer to show some guts and actually lead. And we’re still holding our breath today. [The 'Ville Voice]

Groups are asking the University of Kentucky to stop using coal-fired boilers for heat. [H-L]

A Jefferson County Sheriff deputy shot and killed a man in the South End and everybody is freaking out about it this morning. [FOX41]

Friends of the Lie-Berry will hold its Fall book sale Friday through Sunday at the South Louisville Community Center. [Consuming Louisville]

The Louisville Orchestra is beginning to hire replacement musicians. This is why Louisville can’t have nice things. Because of this ridiculous drama. [WHAS11]

It’s tough not to think everything Jack Conway is doing lately is a gigantic campaign stunt. The latest just adds fuel to an already burning fire. [Page One]

If you’re reading this, you’re a giant nerd. That means you need to go see this exhibit at the Frazier recalling the troubled times of Mary Todd Lincoln. [WFPL]