Kentucky’s senior U.S. Senator says it’s (health care reform) going to be the biggest issue of the 2014 campaign. [WDRB] Looks like Possibility City really dodged a bullet over that Kentucky Kingdom mess. Nearly 70 years ago, Evansville industrialist Louis J. Koch opened a theme park, with a Mother Goose ride and a toy shop [...]

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Kentucky’s top education official has called JCPS’ current state of low test scores and underperforming schools an “academic genocide.” [WDRB] Even Ronnie knows pension reform is never going to be a real thing in Frankfort. Steve Beshear, the Democratic House and Republican Senate apparently are no closer to agreement on how to fund changes to [...]

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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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John Yarmuth does not care for Republicans like Paul Ryan trying to yank possible health care away from, you know, this nation of poor people: How dare John Yarmuth suggest that anyone deserve affordable health care.

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I remember staring at the wall blankly. Couldn’t move. I wanted to throw up so bad,” says Josh Lewis. For several days, 21-year-old Josh Lewis says he’s been in shock. [WDRB] Two-thirds of Jefferson County Public schoolchildren enter kindergarten unprepared to learn the reading and math skills they are expected to master, according to a [...]

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The Kentucky School Boards Association and at least one large union representing teachers are fighting tooth and nail against putting EpiPens in schools. Even in the face of no health care, disappearing nurses and increasing allergies. They’re being unbelievably dishonest with their spin in claiming that putting life-saving EpiPens in every school would cost millions [...]

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Louisville’s congressman expects just one part of the president’s gun control plans to pass Congress this year. He sees it as a start in efforts that re-awakened the nation and Louisville’s interest in gun violence issues. [WDRB] When storms, disease or old age down trees and limbs in city parks, the wood waste will now [...]

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Putting EpiPens in Kentucky schools just makes sense. It’s not something people in their right mind would oppose. Jefferson County Public Schools says they’re neutral on requiring Epi-Pens in Kentucky schools: JCPS is taking a neutral stance concerning House bill 172. If it passes, JCPS schools and its staff will adjust accordingly.” What the hell [...]

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Let’s not act like this is a surprise.An unexpected shutdown at General Electric’s Appliance Park will put more than 500 jobs in Louisville in flux. [WDRB] Almost half of the 46 federally rated nursing homes in Jefferson County have been deemed below or much-below average, a non-profit advocacy organization says. Meanwhile, Julie Denton wants to [...]

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