At tonight’s Metro Council meeting, a new Metro Ethics ordinance will get its first reading. It will be introduced by Ken Fleming, chair of the Rules, Ethics and Appointments committee.
It has to be an improvement. The current version simply hasn’t worked. It allowed a charge against Bob Henderson (D-14) to fester for more than 40 […]

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Whoa, Boy. In Dan Klepal’s C-J story this morning on the city budget, Jerry Abramson says the city would be a “hurtin’ cowboy” if not for a few breaks it got in the budget. Still, he’s singing the budget blues again, cutting another $3 million from the city budget for this fiscal year, just weeks […]

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The big topic at tonight’s Metro Council meeting is a moratorium on construction put forward by Marianne Butler of District 15. That includes an industrial area west of the University of Louisville, where the city is conducting a neighborhood study to determine how best to develop the area.
But there’s a lot more to it, including […]

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You read it right, kids.
Kentucky Democratic Party Chair Jennifer Moore filed a complaint with the do-nothing Louisville Metro Ethics Commission against Doug Hawkins (R-Sombrero Lover).
Hawkins, a current Metro Council member who is running for State Senate against Perry Clark, links to his senate campaign website on his metro council site, something the KDP alleges is […]

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Just Blah-ging: I think what really surprises me is that the Courier-Journal published this letter in its entirety. Though he lives in my zip code, I don’t know John Finley or why he’s so anti-blog. When I  looked him up in White Pages, I learned he’s 65+. Maybe he’s got a quota of letters he […]

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I happened upon the U of L campus yesterday and picked up the latest issue of the student newspaper, The Louisville Cardinal. I sure didn’t expect to read a lambasting of the school’s branding campaign and questions about the athletic department’s alcohol policy. I found these examples of great student journalism:
First, an editorial questioning the […]

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To borrow a famous movie line: What we have here is (NOT) a failure to communicate.
Today both sides of the Library Tax debate held press conferences. The same media crews showed up for each, and that of course may be the purpose of all the theatrics. Here is a “He Said, She Said” account:

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Last week, I went to an ethics seminar at Bellarmine, part of Ed Manassah’s Institute for Media, Culture and Ethics. It provided some great material for my first “Media” column in months for LEO. Here’s an excerpt:
Ed Manassah has been studying the ethics of journalism for more than three decades. On the other hand, Jen […]

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