Whaaat? Sadiqa Reynolds does nothing but cause discontent and unrest within all walks of Metro Government? You’re wrong. She also spends a serious amount of time hiring her sorority sisters. Sure, she’s got a history doing just that. And she’s doing it again and again. The latest? We hear Katina Whitlock was appointed Assistant Director [...]

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You know that feeling you get when one of your sales people decides to move 700 miles away because her husband got a job? I (Jake) have that feeling right now. As you probably are already aware, I don’t really have time to do ad sales myself. So I’m hiring additional advertising salespeople. You have [...]

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What, exactly, is Sheldon Berman thinking? Now that PRP coach Jason Stinson has been found not guilty of reckless homicide, he thinks it’s OK to put the embattled former coach in front of a classroom and wouldn’t object a bit if some oblivious JCPS principal hires him to coach a football team. Berman says he [...]

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The Big Game: No one’s come through with tickets, yet, so I guess I’ll watch the big game on TV. It would be much more fun to live blog from the stands in defiance of the new Southeastern Conference rule. Anyway the game’s on ESPNU, but you can catch it on Insight’s channel 11. Noon [...]

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Rick thinks he’s all fancy, getting to go to Indianapolis or whatever. So, in his absence, I’m gonna share this little story about WHAS11′s News Director, Genie Garner, moving to Honolulu. KITV announced that Genie Garner will join the station as its new News Director effective October. Garner had previously worked in Hawaii from 1989-1991 [...]

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Here’s some news — Fox41 is expanding its on-air staff and devoting more resources to business news. In changes you’ll see on the station after Labor Day, the local Fox affiliate is assigning Bill Francis to a strictly-business beat, moving morning reporter Jennifer Baileys to afternoon general reporting. And the new face you’ll see in [...]

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This seems to be a year of departures on local TV, but none can match the sendoff WAVE-TV has given Tom Wills after four decades as the city’s senior meteorologist. WAVE has given Wills an entire week of tributes, bringing back former personalities (this morning it was ex-anchor Julie Nelson, now in Minneapolis) to record [...]

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Another day, another public relations disaster for Jerry Abramson. An internal city audit has turned up an expense no one except the Mayor seems to have known about — some extra pay for Police Chief Robert White. It was reported at 11 last night by WAVE’s Lindsay English. Metro Councilman Kelly Downard, always good for [...]

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What we have here is a big difference in opinion. Here’s some point-counterpoint. Jerry Abramson says he needed Rick Johnstone and Jane Driskell to save the city by working on the budget, so he made a deal and paid them, and didn’t allow them to take vacation. So some extra vacation pay was in order, [...]

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Janice James, a 30-year health care veteran recommended by a consulting firm retained by Jewish Hospital/St. Mary’s HealthCare, will begin working as a transitional CEO later this week. She’ll spend some time with Bob Shircliff, who resigned suddenly earlier this month. Shircliff, when he announced his intention to retire, said he would be staying on [...]

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