Anyone have a favorite web developer/graphic designer? Send them our way. Hiring folks for a new project. [Jake] Kentucky lawmakers are hotly debating whether to legalize industrial hemp. But do Kentucky farmers think hemp could help grow profits? [WDRB] If John David Dyche really wanted people to care about him getting cut at A Kentucky [...]

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Yesterday, House Bill 105 passed 87 to 9 in the State House. It’s kind of a major deal. Allows for bench trials to determine competency for guardianship. Maybe some of the most important legislation to hit this decade. When you have a loved one who is aging or dying and your drug-addled family is ruining [...]

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New Albany Police say they’ve arrested two men in connection with home invasion that turned into a vicious rape. [WDRB] Mayor Greg Fischer has appointed new directors for Louisville Metro Public Works and the county Emergency Management Agency/MetroSafe, and also named a longtime city employee to the new role of chief of public services. [WFPL] [...]

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All but one of the 51 students hurt in Friday morning’s school bus crash have been released from the hospital. The student is listed in good condition at Kosair Children’s Hospital. [WDRB] A dozen witnesses testified on Thursday about the hours-long waits, multiple trips and misinformation they experienced in getting the voter ID cards required [...]

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And just who are his primary backers? Mayor Greg Fischer on Friday questioned the science underlying the Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District’s enforcement action against bourbon-aging warehouses. That position put Fischer at odds with his own experts and more in line with the bourbon industry. [C-J/AKN] A group of former Kentucky Kingdom workers have [...]

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The Louisville Metro Council appropriations committee voted 3-2 Wednesday to recommend a $20,000 grant request from a nonprofit organization previously led by Louisville Metro Councilwoman Barbara Shanklin. [C-J/AKN] To Louisville sports, Owsley Brown Frazier leaves a legacy of love. This is how you write about the man the day after he dies, mainstreamers. You don’t [...]

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If the Koch Family wasn’t playing the victim, they would address Ed Hart’s comments that the Kentucky Kingdom effort was a move to protect Holiday World. They also ought to come clean about the real, specific reasons they’re not opening. If it’s state government, the public deserves to know which individuals played a role in [...]

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Of course Brown-Forman is gonna develop and move jobs to other states. Like Alabama: The company behind Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey will create a barrel-making plant in Lawrence County, bringing about 200 jobs to north Alabama, state and company officials announced Thursday. The new facility, which represents Brown-Forman Corp.’s second move into Alabama in less [...]

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Here’s Eric Crawford’s first column for his fancy new non-newspaper employer. Probably not one that will make Gannett very happy. [FOX41] Republicans Kelly Downard and Jerry Miller, along with Democrat Mary Woolridge, said putting $500,000 of city tax dollars into the project is unacceptable to them, especially because the city has already committed to a [...]

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Quick, let’s pretend this doesn’t sound like Cordish and 4th Street Live! One in five people stopped last year by the New York City police department was a teenager between the ages of 14 and 18, according to a WNYC analysis of recently released police data. Eighty-six percent of those teenagers who were stopped were [...]

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