Welcome to Shark Week. Let’s get it going. Tie Dancing: So what if half the local TV stations didn’t make it to Fancy Farm over the weekend. We got the best video from the event — Mrs. Mongiardo dancing with a tie. She seems to know something about getting up on a table to dance, [...]

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Wills Watch: It’s the last week of full-time forecasting for WAVE’s Tom Wills. The station is running tributes throughout the week. Could that be why the weather’s so nice? KDP Turns to Fossett: We’re glad to see our former co-worker, Liz Fossett, on the 2007 Bruce Lunsford campaign join the Kentucky Democratic Party as a [...]

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This morning, protestors supporting Wayside Christian Mission marched up and down Liberty Street with “Jesus Loves All People” and John 3:16 on signs they waved over their head. A few dozen people sang “We Shall Overcome.” It was like the ’60s all over again. They were there, believe it or not, for a Board of [...]

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Tune in this morning at 8:45 a.m. to the Fox41 Morning Show. We’ll be talking about the Mayor’s Race and all the political maneuverings involving Greg Fischer, Jim King, David Tandy, Tyler Allen, Steve Pence and maybe a player or two  to be named later. If that weren’t enough, it’s a big day for news. [...]

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Sypher Madness: Check out the WLKY interview with Karen Sypher to witness more of her public meltdown. Yesterday, she met with her attorney, Thomas Clay, and emerged from the meeting looking for a new lawyer. Does anybody really think the decision to split was “mutual”? Sample quote: “I know now I can begin with the [...]

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Not wanted on Market Street, the Mercy Academy building, or Hotel Louisville, Wayside Christian Mission is negotiating a deal to buy the Louisville Antique Mall property at 834 East Broadway. Owner Denise Golden announced plans to close the Antique Mall business last month, a year after moving from Goss Avenue. She bought the property for [...]

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Second and Broadway is no place for a homeless shelter. That seems to be the sentiment of Mayor Jerry Abramson, who weighed in on the controversy for the first time yesterday. He told WHAS-TV’s Chase Cain that he wants the Jefferson Community and Technical College to get the property, and that he’s still looking for [...]

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The Metro Council’s Budget Committee is putting together a plan to restore some of the items cut from the Metro Budget using money from a capital bond issue. The plan, using “paygo” money, could bring in up to $3 million to be spent on operating costs in this budget. If OK’d on Thursday, the Council [...]

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You’re Banned: Badge of honor for Joe Gerth. Loony Sen. Jim Bunning has singled him out to be banned from his weekly press calls, as if Gerth’s the only one poking fun at him. Note to voters — Do not further embarrass Kentucky by giving him another term. [Courier] Wayside Update: Looks like David Williams [...]

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It looks like there may be a good reason that Wayside Christian Mission offered up an exhorbitant price at auction for the Hotel Louisville at Second and Broadway. It sure looks like the plan was to make sure that the property’s owners, including majority mortgage holder Gus Goldsmith, got paid in full and that the [...]

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