The Metro Council passed “comprehensive” ethics reform, which makes the following improvements:

Increases transparency by requiring ethics documents and disclosure forms to be placed on the Metro website.
Significantly broadens the number of government employees who are covered, including persons who have the ability to approve contracts over $10,000 and legislative assistants to members of the Metro [...]

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Tyler Allen’s family is sharing experiences from the campaign trail. Check out the family blog. [Click the Clicky]
Happy to see local media jumping on board a story we initially broke last week about wasteful Derby “charity” events. [WHAS11]
This is kind of major: the Grawemeyer Players, a 13-member University of Louisville faculty chamber ensemble, [...]

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Doug Hawkins thinks he’s going to win re-election purely because he’s an elected official:
Though Councilman Hawkins hasn’t begun raising any money, he remains confident that he’s earned a reputation for standing up to the mayor and that he has represented his constituents well. Despite being criticized by the Mayor’s Office, condemned by council Democrats and [...]

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By now, everybody knows Democrat Shannon White says she’s running for mayor because no one else in the field of candidates inspired her. So we won’t dig into that beyond saying: if you’re gonna run for mayor, at least take the time to come up with an inspiring answer to the question of [...]

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After some unwelcome media attention, Steve Beshear, Jerry Abramson and Mitch Daniels have called for an “organizational” meeting of the Bi-State Bridges Authority. The meeting will take place at 2:30 P.M. on February 2 at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville. [Press Release]
Democrat David Yates will officially file to run against Doug Hawkins today. [...]

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Here’s one thing mayoral candidate Jackie Green loves about Louisville. [Consuming Louisville]
Mike Sodrel apparently wants history to repeat itself every two years, forever, amen. [Press Release]
Let’s make this new cleaners/condo/shop thingy happen on Bardstown Road. [C-J]
Tyler Allen raised $10,000 in the last 48 hours of the quarter. He’s scheduled to officially file for office tomorrow [...]

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Doug “Protector of Our White Women From the Foreigns” Hawkins has changed his tune.
Yesterday he sent out an email blast – from his government computer and email account – proclaiming that Jerry Abramson didn’t break the law when appointing a member to the PRP Fire Board. He now says Abramson violated the intent of [...]

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Chris Thieneman should be wary of Kentucky’s campaign finance law if he wants to pass the smell test. [The 'Ville Voice]
The University of Louisville’s winter commencement ceremony is set for December 17. [Press Release]
Ford is considering Louisville for an investment of $300 to $500 million to assemble advanced batteries and electric/hybrid electric cars if Michigan [...]

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What? Surely not! Doug Hawkins has lied again.
Mr. Tan in a Can and Protector of Our White Women from the Mexicans sent out an email just a day ago that was filled with misinformation. Click here (Warning: PDF Link) to read it for yourself.
In the email, Hawkins claimed the Mayor’s Office planned [...]

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Watching that “Ever-Bland” Stuff: Steve Langford’s rambling on here about all those stories the national networks keep missing, but it’s OK because WAVE’s aggressively getting everyone’s opinion and putting it on the air. The point, I think, is that Steve wants you to watch all these characters he’s recruiting to do commentary on WAVE-TV. That’s [...]

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