Greg Fischer’s re-election campaign may be kicking off but it seems he’s still got a little housekeeping to do: Possibility City! The new excuse? After a year, Fischer’s folks claim they had no control over the account. Also, it seems his initial campaign announcement ended up in the spam folders of nearly everyone in the [...]

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Since people are asking, here’s Greg Fischer’s full re-election campaign announcement: Dear friends: I wanted you to be among the first to know that today I will announce my re-election campaign for Mayor. I’ve been honored to serve my hometown for the last two years. My team, with the assistance of all 750,000 citizens, has [...]

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Bird poop is once again causing lane closures in Louisville. When you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go. [WDRB] With construction set to begin this summer on both the downtown Interstate 65 and eastern bridges, state transportation officials from Kentucky and Indiana updated the Jeffersonville City Council on Monday night. [C-J/AKN] Louisville restaurants are [...]

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Jeffersonville police have learned more information about the skeletal remains recently found behind a church. [WDRB] Kudos to the editorial board for ‘getting it’ on the pension non-reform that went down in Frankfort! Lawmakers who falsely congratulated themselves last month for solving the state’s public pension crisis should get a jolt of reality from the [...]

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The director of the J.B. Ogle Animal Shelter in Jeffersonville, Ind. has resigned, according to a press release from the city’s mayor. [WDRB] Wanna dig in to Kentucky’s immigration chart and basic immigration concepts? It’s a 75-page PDF file, so have at it. [Click the Clicky] Another day, another pedestrian hit and killed in Louisville. [...]

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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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Woo, let’s tear everything in Louisville down for a couple unnecessary bridges! In the Shadow Wood Subdivision, houses have already have been torn down to makes way for the approach to the East End Bridge. [WDRB] Kentucky expects to have estimates next month on how much money may be generated by tolls on new Ohio [...]

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It’s really tough not to make obvious jokes about this. Mayor Greg Fischer helped open the new Teen Computer Center known as “The Loft.” [WDRB] The walls of one of Louisville’s longtime downtown retailers were pulled apart at the beams Monday. All to make way for a bridge a majority of residents don’t want and [...]

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Greg Fischer needs to rethink his strategy because this abandoned properties bill is solid. Just because the city could take over vacant properties doesn’t mean it would have to. [C-J/AKN] Sounds like Mellwood/Story Ave on the average afternoon. Chinese officials say they have fished out 900 dead pigs from a Shanghai river that is a [...]

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JCPS Principals at some of the district’s lowest performing schools get to keep their job. The move is in response to a surprising report from the Kentucky Department of Education. [WDRB] Kate Hopkins didn’t know the man in the casket, never met him or his family. Yet, Hopkins attended the funeral of Francisco Carmona, 48, [...]

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