Yesterday, Governor Steve Beshear and the White House announced that Kentucky was named a finalist for the Race to the Top educational award. Obviously, we will lose again, because why not. [Press Release]

AT&T activated a new 3G cell site in Louisville! Everybody jump up and down in excitement! [Business First]

Interestingly, this GE jet engine has a super Louisville connection. Feel free to play a guessing game. [Wonkette]

I think HullabaLOU was too expensive. But do you? Maybe the high price of entry was to keep the riff-raff out?  [Loueyville]

Independent Councilman Deonte Hollowell will file papers to run for his council seat today at 12:30. [Press Release]

You know, we really do get some awesome comments. Especially about the mayoral race. [The 'Ville Voice]

Millions and millions of people are being called to testify in the Karen Sypher – Rick Pitino sexytime trial. [WFPL]

How does a heat wave affect your use of public space? You hide inside with the air conditioning and eschew public space. That’s how. [Broken Sidewalk]

In Jackie Green’s latest email blast, he says he’s hosting a party at Molly Malone’s on Baxter Avenue. Tomorrow. 7:00 P.M. What he didn’t indicate was that his campaign paid for the email

Wait. It gets better.

Fischer said this about his new campaign manager, a guy with some taint following him:

“I like the fact that he had run or overseen successful mayoral campaigns in a metro area about our size and was also a chief of staff for a mayor whose budget is approximately the same size as Louisville’s.”

Uh, you ready, kids?

Providence, RI has a population of roughly 171,000. While the Providence metro area is larger, it’s part of Boston’s combined statistical area. Louisville has a population of roughly 700,000.

The Providence city budget is about $495 million. Louisville’s is, what?, $800 million-ish. Providence maintains its school budget in its general fund, jacking things up to about $620 million. We obviously don’t do that. If we did, we’d be at something like $1.3 or $1.4 billion. There are 23,000 students in the Providence school system. Louisville’s got about 100,000. See what I’m saying?

Additionally, Jefferson County’s total employment in 2008 was 538,283. Providence? 355,861. That’s a huge difference.

Does Greg Fischer know nothing about the city he wants to run? No wonder he takes pages and pages of notes during meetings – he’s wholly unaware and isn’t bothering to educate himself before he speaks or meets with folks.

Maybe he should stick to holding dinner parties where he doesn’t turn on the air conditioning, talking down to actual elected officials like he’s a condescending John Kerry.

Here are some excerpts:

Counts 1 through 3 of the Superseding Indictment allege that Schroeder and Felner used a sham entity, the National Center on Public Education and Prevention (NCPEp), to execute a scheme to defraud and to conspire to do the same. Count 1 charges that they executed a scheme using NCPEp to defraud the National Center on Public Education and Social Policy, a division of URI, (NCPE-URI), the Rock Island County Council on Addiction (RICCA), and the University of Louisville (UofL). Count 2 charges they conspired to use NCPEp to launder the proceeds of the fraud charged in Count 1. Count 3 charges that they conspired to defraud the Internal Revenue Service through, among other means, the use of NCPEp.

-SNIP-

In all instances, NCPEp was invoicing the three school districts, RICCA, and UofL for work it did not complete. The only distinction was that Schroeder, on behalf of the NCPEp, personally invoiced RICCA. The money from all three victims was laundered through NCPEp bank accounts controlled by Schroeder and/or Felner. RICCA was not aware of Schroeder’s involvement with NCPEp. Similarly, NCPE-URI and UofL were not aware of Felner’s involvement with NCPEp.

You’ll wanna CLICK HERE to read the rest…

Sorry, there’s no conflict of interest for Kay Stewart to have two jobs at once. That’s silly. What’s not silly, however, is to assume she’s an astroturfer on behalf of Jerry Abramson. She is and has been since she worked at the Courier-Journal. Someone should ask her about the times she lied to both Andrew Horne and John Yarmuth in 2006 about what was and was not off-the-record. [Curt Morrison]

Basically everybody is going to sue Jefferson County Public Schools over the student assignment plan. [WAVE3]

I don’t like seeing sideboob when I’m trying to scarf something down my gullet. I get it. But kicking a lady out of a restaurant in Newport over breastfeeding? You’d think Kentuckians were backwater or something. [FOX41]

Jordan Humphrey was found near his home, safe and sound. [WHAS11]

New York is making standardized exams tougher. Can you imagine what would happen if Kentucky strengthened its standardized testing? [NY Times]

Here’s a fancy national security story re-published by Kentucky’s only decent newspaper. [Herald-Leader]

9,000-year-old beer? Why, that’s impossible! The earth is only 5,000-years-old. [NPR]

Here’s a quick refresher:

• AG: KCTCS Must Turn Over Records [October 28, 2009]
• Does This Have Something To Do With Mountjoy? [October 28, 2009]
• KCTCS Is Wasting Your Tax Dollars [November 3, 2009]

So back to the story. OCTC refused to release Gastenveld’s evaluation despite a ruling from the Office of the Attorney General telling the school to just effing do it or else. Translation: your tax dollars were used by a public institution fighting the release of public documents. $145,017 of your tax dollars, to be specific.

Governor Steve Beshear’s people? Helen Mountjoy, Tommy Thompson, Reid Haire, Nick Brake, David Johnson and Michael McCall. Well, their taint is allegedly all over the place. And that brings us to today.

Something tells me you’ll want to CLICK HERE to read the rest…

Here’s a clip:

It’s a heartwarming look at a reality many people choose to ignore.

The show was produced by a Louisvillian.

He says he’s made education his top priority. And I guess that’s why he’s focused 80% of his time on three failed gambling proposals, 10% of his time on getting re-elected and the other 10% cutting and wasting educational funds left and right.

Not to mention – he’s not done a damn thing to stop the corruption at the University of Louisville, University of Kentucky or with Sheldon Berman at JCPS.

Anyway, this week the Transportation Lady discusses KYTC scholarships awarded to students for the study of civil engineering and related technology:

I’d say something mean about being removed from the list… but… HAHAHA. It’s too funny to be upset.

Louisville is nothing but a bunch of Frainch frogs! [WFPL]

On Monday, First Lady Jane Beshear released her summer reading list: Summer Reading Is Killing Me!, Tuck Everlasting, The Outsiders, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Slow Down for Manatees, Riddle of the Reef, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Gods of Manhattan, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, Scat. [Press Release]

Kentucky’s June/fourth quarter receipts are a nightmare to behold. [Page One]

Remember the “journalist” that receives a rent-free apartment from a batshiz insane political blowhard in exchange for positive press? You know, the person shaking down PR execs and such for cash in exchange for coverage. Legitimate journalists or anybody with credibility on any level doesn’t do crap like that. Television stations should think twice about situations like this if they don’t want to slip further down the wormhole. [Deep Thoughts]

The Hitchcock summer series is returning to the Louisville Palace. Tickets are five bucks when purchased at the box office or it’s $42 for a season pass, a $2 discount on each show. [Consuming Louisville]

Habitat for Humanity of Metro Louisville has been selected to take part in a neighborhood revitalization program. [Fat Lip]

If you read Page One on a regular basis, you’re familiar with the catfighting between Daniel Mongiardo and Jack Conway. This isn’t about money, though Conway knew fully well that Mongiardo was promised cash. It’s about Daniel Mongiardo thinking he’s the anointed one, that he’s owed something, that everything should fall in his lap because he deserves it. [Joe Arnold]

Ted Koppel was in town yesterday. You go listen to him? [84WHAS]

What do The Wizard of Oz, Airplane and E.T. have in common? They’re all being shown for free at the Iroquois Amphitheater. [Consuming Louisville]

This is too important not to discuss: Sheldon Berman’s review has been pushed into July in an attempt to keep portions of said review secret. [WFPL]

Jury selection in the Rick Pitino – Karen Sypher sexytime extortion case begins today. [WAVE3]

You’ll want to check this site out for all of your fancy Forecastle Festival coverage. [Backseat Sandbar]

The festival was a giant success with 100+ performers and thousands of music lovers. [WHAS11]

Is Tilia open? Has anyone been? [Broken Sidewalk Flashback]

Six Flags Over Jesus is expanding into Oldham County. The church will soon spread further east and take over the world. [WLKY]

If you’re familiar with the Carriage Lady, you should probably help with her funeral. [FOX41]

Listen up, folks, you need to help me give away some books. Here’s why. [Page One]