The ‘Ville Voice received an anonymous mailing last month that accused the University of Louisville’s presidents’ office of nepotism. It claimed that President James Ramsey’s executive assistant, Kathleen Smith, was paying her nephew, Ryan McDaniel, about three times more than the other student assistants.
Today the C-J has written that U of L experienced a “security […]
Entries Tagged as 'Bad Behavior'
The Source of that U of L Data Breach
May 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Bad Behavior · University of Louisville
Glorifying Bad Behavior on the Sports Page
May 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
So here’s today’s morality play, brought to you by the Courier-Journal sports department.
The question is — is it a worthy topic to profile an oustanding high school softball player, complete with giant photos, on the front page of the sports section, when the only justification for the feature is that the player had casual, unprotected […]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Sports
Frank Simon Rears His Hateful Head Again
May 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Crazy/bigoted/racist/sexist/homophobic/anti-semitic hack Frank Simon is back in action. No, he’s not blaming the Holocaust on us gays again. This time he’s endorsing Democratic candidates who not only don’t want his endorsement but never asked for his endorsement. We received reports of Simon’s activities and immediately started digging. One endorsee’s name stuck […]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Metro Council · Politics
Get Your Guns with Dougie
May 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Really, we’re running out of ways to poke fun at Doug Hawkins, but the ammunition, so to speak, keeps showing up in our e-mail box.
The latest Hawkins e-mail newsletter touts his appearance at a voter registration booth during the National Rifle Association convention this weekend. If you go, I suppose Hawkins will help you get […]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Doug Hawkins · Metro Council
Media Ramblings for Derby
April 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Run, John, Run: I watched a few minutes of the Mini-Marathon coverage on local stations Saturday morning, and the clear leader on that score was WLKY-TV. It was the only one with a reporter actually running in the race. We’ve written here that John Boel is the hardest-working anchor in the city. That claim might […]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Derby Festival · Kentucky Derby · Radio · Sports
Tuesday’s Things to Freak Out Over
March 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Today’s big news stories, and the C-J’s front page:
Shot Dead, Good Timing: All day yesterday, news stations covered the police shooting in the South End, which occurred conveniently before the Noon news. WHAS-TV sent three different reporters (Melanie Snow, Chuck Olmstead, Adam Walser) to Third Street throughout the day. It leads the C-J. But reporters […]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Courier-Journal · Crime · Education · LMPD · Sports · Water
Bank Robber Shot to Death in Louisville
March 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment
A man who robbed the Beechmont location of Stock Yards Bank in Louisville was shot to death today just after 12:00 Noon.
It’s 2008. Why do people even attempt to rob banks these days?
This is what happens when you do crazy crap. You get shot - 14 or 15 times - until you’re dead […]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Courier-Journal · LMPD
Calling Out a Hater
March 6th, 2008 · 7 Comments
It’s not my intention to give this topic any legs, but it’s hard not to use this space as a soapbox when you see something so hateful and flat-out wrong. You probably know someone like this. Consider yourself lucky if you’re not on one of these lists. You probably know someone who collects e-mail addresses […]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Discrimination · Presidential Race 08 · Race
Missing the Story: TV Coverage of the Wine Bill
March 4th, 2008 · 8 Comments
It was a made-for-TV story. A bill in the Kentucky Legislature, HB585, put forth by Rep. Larry Clark (D-Louisville), would allow the sale of wine in grocery stores. Supporters held a press conference at the Highlands Kroger yesterday, and all four TV stations showed up and did essentially the same story — interviewing officials and […]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Courier-Journal · State Government · TV
Wendell Ford Dinner Tonight
February 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Every Democrat with a hundred bucks to throw away on bad food and expensive, watered-down alcohol will be on-hand for the annual Wendell Ford Dinner in Louisville this evening.
We’ll be there. Will you?
If so, introduce yourself to us during the reception or stop by our table to say hello. That’s the best way […]
Tags: Alcohol · Bad Behavior · Blogging · Hype · Politics
Mary Being Quite Contrary
February 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Mary Woolridge, chair of the Metro Council’s Health and Human Needs Committee, has been raked over the coals on the Francene radio show for the last week. And she’s had about enough. Today she’s fighting back with a letter that’s being delivered to the radio station clarifiying her position.
Francene made the mistake of a) […]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Francene · Immigration · Metro Council
Maybe the Cats are just “Chicken”
February 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Norfolk State (it’s in Virginia) had its best football season in 23 years, and Coach Pete Adrian was named the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. Oh, they did lose 59-zip to Rutgers. The Spartans’ game against Kentucky Sept. 6 is the highlight, and the only Division I-A opponent, on the 2008 schedule.
So if […]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Sports
KDP Files Ethics Complaint Against Doug Hawkins
February 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments
You read it right, kids.
Kentucky Democratic Party Chair Jennifer Moore filed a complaint with the do-nothing Louisville Metro Ethics Commission against Doug Hawkins (R-Sombrero Lover).
Hawkins, a current Metro Council member who is running for State Senate against Perry Clark, links to his senate campaign website on his metro council site, something the KDP alleges is […]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Ethics · Metro Council
Censoring at IU: An Awful Idea
February 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Censorship almost never works the way it’s intended. That, however, doesn’t stop the stuffed shirts of the world from trying, and in Bloomington on Saturday, that included stuffing an enterprising shirt salesman peddling a message that had nothing obscene of offensive on it. Just a simple message: Bring Back Integrity. Bring Back Bobby.
You probably know […]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Indiana Univ. · Sports
News from Around the Horne
February 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments
OK, maybe the last time we get to use the pun on the Colonel’s name:
* Louisville’s Andrew Horne is no longer a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate. Horne said in a three-paragraph note to supporters that the problems in government — health care, education and the Iraq War — still need […]
Tags: Andrew Horne · Bad Behavior · Bruce Lunsford · Politics · Senate Race 2008
Local Media Digging Up Dirt
February 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Bad Guy Getting His Due: Nobody is less popular in this town than Todd Kelly, the disgraced disc jockey who faked a disease in order to collect donations he used for beer money. Worse, maybe, he brought his Mom in on it and got her convicted of a crime. Fox41 had “the only reporter (Chris […]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Politics · Radio · Republican Party · Sports · TV
These Dogs Won’t Hunt
February 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Here’s some things catching our attention, and some good work we’re borrowing from our Page One site:
Un-Leash: We’ve been trying to keep up with the play-by-play on the Metro Council’s dog ordinance, and believe it to be seriously flawed. Also a serious waste of the city’s time and resources. That’s the way we felt before […]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Dogs · Metro Council · State Government
KHSAA Needs to Go Public With Violators
January 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Back in December, I wrote here about how odd it was that a highly-touted sophmore, Aaron Cosby, had suddenly left the Manual High School basketball team. My sources told me he was transferring to another public school, Eastern, because his basketball prospects there seemed better.
Later, I learned that Cosby, who also played football at Manual […]
Tags: Bad Behavior · High School · Sports
A Fish Story from the South End
January 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments
There’s certainly an appeal in listening to folks who speak without fear, those wildly independent public figures who challenge authority. When they run for office, these folks are often characterized as crazy, unelectable or simply misguided. And if they do happen to get elected to an office, well, it’s creates a field day for journalists […]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Chris Thieneman · Metro Council · Politics · Rumors · Smoking Ban · Trans Fat
Wrong Place, Wrong Time Arrests Not Rare
January 9th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Turns out that the case of Paul Schum, the Bardstown school prinicipal who lost his job after being arrested on Halloween night in a shady section of downtown, is not so unique. As WLKY’s Mike Petchenik reported last night, police have made hundreds of arrests for “loitering for the purposes of prostitution.”
In Schum’s case, prosecutors […]
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