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Just What Kentucky Needs: An MSD Expansion

May 21st, 2013 · 3 Comments

Louisville Metro Police say they’ve arrested a woman after she allegedly beat and choked her 12-year-old nephew. [WDRB] It will take a little digging and watering, but the Floyd County Nutrition Coalition provided residents with a way to eat healthier without having to visit the grocery store. [News & Tribune] Thousands of bones are on [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Churchill Downs · Death · Ethics · Greg Fischer · Health Care · Indiana · LMPD · Metro Council · MSD · Poverty · Steve Beshear

Did You Hear? Louisville’s Economy Just Magical

May 17th, 2013 · 1 Comment

Everybody is just cold getting murdered in Shiveley. Don’t tell any of your meemaws who live there. [WDRB] The Lexington Parking Authority board of commissioners voted Thursday to accept the proposed new city food truck ordinance, subject to several modifications. Seems Lexington takes food trucks more seriously than Louisville. [H-L] There’s been some progress after [...]

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Tags: Business · Death · Economy · Ethics · Ford · Frankfort Ave. · Greg Fischer · Indiana · Jail · Lexington · Metro Council · Metro Government · Neighborhoods · Police · South End

It Takes An Old Sports Celeb To Get Attention?

May 2nd, 2013 · 3 Comments

The city’s only black-owned newspaper wants the public to give feedback about African Americans serving on Metro Council and in other offices. Something tells us this isn’t going to go over so well. [WDRB] Several African-American lawmakers are concerned about a potential “pattern of disrimination” at Fourth Street Live after a former Louisville Cardinals basketball [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Churchill Downs · Construction · Cordish · Discrimination · Dogs · Education · Ethics · Indiana · JCPS · Jim King · Lexington · Metro Council · Race

Alcohol Is Hardly The Biggest West End Problem

April 26th, 2013 · 1 Comment

You will be able to order a beer, cocktails or other alcoholic beverage as soon as 10 a.m. on Sundays in Louisville restaurants, perhaps the day after the Kentucky Derby, if not sooner. A handful of people on council voted against the measure, ignorantly believing that an extra couple hours of alcohol sales on Frankfort [...]

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Tags: Alcohol · Business · Death · Downtown · Economy · Ethics · Highlands · Indiana · Metro Council · Metro Government · Ohio River Bridges · Politics · State Government

Metro Govt Bears The Brunt Of KRS Corruption

April 3rd, 2013 · 1 Comment

A Louisville woman has been arrested after authorities say she caused over $1,000 worth of damage to the Hall of Justice. At least it was rocks and not something more crazy. [WDRB] Faced with a Friday deadline to approve the mayor’s Falls Landing Park plan or risk losing a $500,000 state grant, Jeffersonville City Council [...]

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Tags: Alcohol · Bad Behavior · Business · Dogs · Ethics · Indiana · Jail · Parks · State Government

Really, They Were Shocked Over Tree Removal?

April 2nd, 2013 · 1 Comment

Metro Council woman Barbara Shanklin is fighting to clear her name. Monday afternoon her attorney filed an appeal to the ethic complaint against her. [WDRB] New details about one of Mississippi’s most infamous murders are coming to light — more than a half-century later. The death of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy who allegedly [...]

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Tags: Business · Death · Discrimination · Dogs · Ethics · Guns · Indiana · Judges · Metro Council · Ohio River Bridges · Race · State Government · Steve Beshear · University of Kentucky · Zoning

Surprise: Barbara Shanklin Throwing Major Shade

March 29th, 2013 · No Comments

They are children, experiencing a kind of violence and hate that most of us could never imagine: “It was complicated, very complicated,” says Ozine Byolmwngu, who immigrated from the Congo. [WDRB] Hundreds of demonstrators, along with the Chicago Teachers Union, marched through the city today demanding that City Hall walk back its plan to close [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Business · Charity · Death · Economy · Ethics · Greg Fischer · Homeless · Immigration · Indiana · Metro Council · Ohio River Bridges · Youth

Barbara Shanklin’s Probably A Little Mad This Week

March 28th, 2013 · No Comments

Just what Louisville needs: another road rage incident involving a gun. A Louisville man has been arrested after police say he pulled a gun in an act of road rage. [WDRB] While a pointless way to “protest” in Kentucky, the prosecution’s push to prevent the reality that a gay marriage fight is the reason it [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Death · Ethics · Gays · Guns · Metro Council · Ohio River Bridges · Possibility City · State Government · Zoning

Poop On A Bridge Is The Hottest News In Town

March 25th, 2013 · 3 Comments

Louisville sees a triple homicide for the first time in nearly a year. Police found three men, shot dead, outside an apartment building in south Louisville off Georgetown Place, south of Berry Boulevard. [WDRB] Officials who run Louisville International Airport have agreed to sell 18.4 acres in an industrial park near the airport to a [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Construction · Death · Dogs · Economy · Ethics · Guns · Indiana · Jerry Abramson · Lexington · Oops · State Government

Will Barbara Shanklin Be Given Boot By Council?

March 15th, 2013 · 2 Comments

As usual, taxpayers get the shaft. Utility costs for the Louisville Gardens, the old armory building which has sat empty for more than five years, have topped more than a quarter of a million dollars. [WDRB] Really, Ken Fleming? You couldn’t find a better use in your district for that $25,000? The Louisville Metro Council [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Death · Education · Ethics · Gays · Hype · Indiana · Lexington · Metro Government · Mitch McConnell · Ohio River Bridges · State Government

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