Greg Fischer campaigned on transparency and has spent the past year claiming to be the most transparent mayor in the country. Reality? He and his staff are working like mad to hide public documents, to obfuscate, to play pat-a-cake and be all-around difficult butt cramps when it comes to releasing information about their level of [...]

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Metro Government needs to stand the eff up to Insight. There’s no reason Louisville should be held hostage when it comes to having a single cable provider. Especially a cable provider that flushes money down the toilet with wasted advertising of outdated and unwanted products. Oh, guess who Insight’s attorney is – Larry Zielke! [WLKY] [...]

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What? We always have laptop to sell? Well… We have YET ANOTHER 15″ MacBook Pro to part with. Same as rest. Late 08 unibody (solid aluminum), glossy display, 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo, 4gigs ram, 320gig drive. It’s $1,100 on eBay but I’ll roll it out for $800 locally, $850 shipped. Yell Jake’s way. [Email Jake] [...]

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Yesterday marked the 99th day in a row that Republican Party of Kentucky Chairman Steve Robertson has questioned Jack Conway over his involvement in his brother’s drug scandal: “Tomorrow marks day 100 that Conway has refused to answer questions and confront the truth about this compromised investigation,” Robertson said. “The voters of Kentucky deserve an [...]

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Okay, here is the deal. Louisville politics and Kentucky politics suck you-know-what. So I bought ten sets of these two TERRIFIC bourbon books to give away: Leave a comment on this post or email Jake (if you’re skeerd) – letting us know what drives you to drink and why you love bourbon. We’ll draw winners [...]

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Why did Steve Beshear assail one of Kentucky’s best corporate citizens’ signature product during yesterday’s Kentucky Farm Bureau forum? The weird tirade begins at about the 1:20 mark in the below footage: Really, it’s just weird to attack a company that employs thousands of Kentuckians. Especially a business that not only helps keep Louisville afloat [...]

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And just like that, we’re back up and running. Nothing like being forced to do a server upgrade in the middle of the week. Please accept our apologies if you’ve been looking for a fix while at work this morning. Had to replace a couple pieces of hardware so things are more secure. This is [...]

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24-year-old jockey Michael Baze was found dead in his vehicle at Churchill Downs. [HuffPo] An environmental group – Appalachian Voices – is suing a coal company in Bardstown over alleged clean water act violations. [H-L] Metro Council has deemed the Whiskey Row/Iron Quarter ordinance an emergency. [WFPL] So gas prices are at a billion dollars [...]

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Congressman John Yarmuth issued a statement on the death of Osama bin Laden. [Press Release] After all kinds of time whitewashing what’s going down at Metro Animal Services, Greg Fischer is set to release the long-awaited audit next week. Let’s see how much spin comes with it. [WFPL] Nosama bin Laden: a life in funny [...]

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Steve Beshear is so mad at House Democrats he’s calling just about everyone to complain. Maybe he should have done more than hold a conference call on the matter with House leadership? Maybe then they’d be letting him spend the rainy day fund he so badly wants to waste. [Bluegrass Politics] The Japanese nuclear plants [...]

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