We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen. [Support Our New Project!] Meanwhile, two or three people are still pretending that 4th Street is a success and not a disastrous, expensive failure for taxpayers. The Pub Restaurant on 4th Street Live has run dry, marking [...]

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We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen. [Support Our New Project!] Despite eight years in business and more than $20 million in taxpayer subsidies, Fourth Street Live has not turned a profit. At least, not according to the confidential profit-and-loss statements that the developer [...]

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A story like this pops up: Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer’s office says a new economic development study released Thursday shows that the city will see a more than 3-for-1 return on the millions of dollars it spent on Fourth Street Live, but the study’s author says the mayor may be exaggerating. Retired University of Louisville [...]

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Another candidate has dropped out of the race for the Jefferson County Board of Education, leaving the field at 14 seeking three open seats. [C-J/AKN] Hoop dreams? Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer “brainstormed” the idea of the NBA’s Indiana Pacers playing ten games at the KFC Yum! Center during a meeting with the arena’s main tenant, [...]

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AEG, which owns the Staples Center, manages the Sprint Center and has (had?) the fancy Grease Bucket Arena deal is for sale. Louisvillians are 100% not surprised. [KC Star & LA Times] What if Louisville moved its Ohio River dam upriver near the Second Street bridge, creating a scenic waterfall that also exposed more of [...]

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Oh, yes, the Cordish Cos. drama in Maryland is getting more exciting. Let’s look: Lawmakers angered over casino owner’s gambling demands Maryland lawmakers are angry that the owner of the state’s newest casino is demanding a host of favorable conditions in legislation that would authorize an expansion of gambling in the state. David Cordish, chairman [...]

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What’s everybody’s favorite downtown killing Cordish Cos. up to these days? This: The owner of Maryland Live!, which has strongly opposed allowing a new casino in neighboring Prince George’s County, on Tuesday laid out the terms of expanded gambling legislation that it could accept. The Cordish Cos. is seeking a steep reduction in the tax [...]

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is calling for a new study of a Louisville landfill because of new reports of waste found during routine monitoring. [H-L] Surely everybody else is about to gouge their eyes out over the non-stop obsession of teevee newsers with the MIlton-Madison bridge. [WAVE3] Even more weird: The new owner of [...]

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Louisville apparently has a huge case of the stupids because idiot parents are continuing to leave their children alone in hot cars. [FOX41] Lexington craft brewery West Sixth Brewing will expand into the Louisville market starting Friday. [H-L] Another day, another chemical spill in Rubbertown, nothing to see here, move along, puppies and rainbows. [WAVE3] [...]

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This guy from the Humane Society of the United States has been snowed into believing Louisville wants that hot mess of a killing machine. So he’s bringing his book tour to town today. To show how disconnected from reality the guy is – thanks to his boy, Justin Scally – he’s appearing at a dying [...]

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