Last night, Humana CEO Mike McCallister addressed Greater Louisville Inc’s annual dinner. So Americans United for Change took that as an opportunity to hit hard.
From a release yesterday:
Tom McMahon, Acting Executive Director, Americans United for Change: “Humana’s profits soared by a staggering 61 percent last year, and CEO Mike McCallister was compensated millions. But [...]

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I’m traveling on a fancy aeroplane all morning/afternoon, so it’ll be a little slow around here for a minute. Remember, if there are any must-see/do thingies in Shreveport? Now’s your chance to give me a yell, ladies and ladydudes. Maybe I’ll bring back some cool gifts for you all.
Yesterday Rep. John Yarmuth [...]

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Check out all the local D-Listers in this video from Friends of Lou, including Bill Samuels Jr., Terry Meiners, Angie Fenton, Jim Wood, DeVone Holt, Patti Swope, Darryl Isaacs, J.K. McKnight, Mike Mays, Kevin Harned, Jerry Abramson, John Timmons, three dudes at the Tequila Factory, some DJs, a horse, and very briefly, some blogger.

It’s still [...]

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The Possibility City branding campaign has produced this TV spot that is airing the next few weeks on cable and some local stations (and during ESPNU’s broadcast of the Kentucky vs. Louisville football game).
It proposes a cure for ITHAGT (Inability to Have a Good Time) that is, you guessed it, hanging out in Possibility City. [...]

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Steve Beshear and Jerry Abramson announced today that five individuals will serve on a negotiating team to talk with counterparts in Indiana to get the $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridges Project going.
It’s the first of many steps involved, with the goal ultimately to establish a bi-state authority that would have seven members, four named by [...]

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There was no drama in what PGA Communications Director Julius Mason calls “the land of drama.”
Jim Remy, the PGA president, also acknowledged that today’s announcement was “not the best kept secret in Louisville today.”
So here’s the news. In 2011 the PGA of American will host its PGA Senior Championship here and then in 2014 one [...]

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Another Mayoral Rumor: We hear there’s a female, South End Democrat taking a look at the Mayor’s Race, and wouldn’t that be exciting? We’d love that. If she runs, Joni Jenkins might do well in certain parts of town and with her buds in labor. But the Shively state rep, who’s been in office since [...]

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The big piece of news in the story we had earlier today will have a much bigger impact on Louisville than whatever happens between the Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Greater Louisville Sports Commission. Or between Diane McGraw and Jim Wood.
No one will confirm it, but the PGA Championship is likely coming to Valhalla [...]

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When the going gets tough, the weak get sent packing. Or so it would seem from the Metro Council’s list of local government functions that aren’t “Mission Critical.”
When citizens really look at what their tax dollars are paying for, they might share the sentiment of Metro Council members who responded to a survey by saying [...]

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If you’ve been around town long enough, you’ve heard the urban legend about the massive cavern under the Zoo that goes under the Watterson Expressway at Poplar Level Road.
For as long as I can remember, its owners have been trying to figure out a way to make some money off the space. I wrote about [...]

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