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Just How Fat IS Compassionate Possibility City?

May 22nd, 2012 · 3 Comments

Here’s how the paper in Lexington started out about West End murders yesterday: A woman was charged Monday with murder in one shooting death and police are seeking information into the unrelated deaths of two other people who were shot the same day just a block away in a crime-riddled west Louisville neighborhood. [H-L] The [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Business · Health Care · Homeless · Hype · Indiana · Lexington · Newspaper · Politics · Possibility City · Scandal · State Government · West End

We Get Awesome, Ignorant Hate Messages

May 18th, 2012 · 9 Comments

Check out the latest: Name: Doug Spoelker Email: Doug217@gmail.com Subject: Move. Message: If Louisville is such a bad place to you, then seriously, move back to eastern Ky. You are obviously a redneck cunt and your family tree is straight up. I lived in Morehead for years, so I know how inbred you rerards are. [...]

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King Coal Spends $ Attacking Those With Concerns

May 18th, 2012 · No Comments

The Kentucky Coal Association freaks out and goes crazy on anybody who dares question mountaintop removal. So what’s the latest? A super-expensive “white paper” attacking the Sierra Club. Take a look: CLICK FOR PDF Bill Bissett wishes desperately that he could be accepted by everybody as a non-spinster. But. Uh. As long as the KCA [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Hype · Politics

Nope, Definitely Not Most Compassionate Or Safest

May 18th, 2012 · 6 Comments

What was that, Greg, about Louisville being the most compassionate city in the country? What was that, again, about Louisville being the safest city in the nation? Quit with the damn buzz words. You looked and sounded like an imbecile while 95% of the city was stressed and saddened over yesterday’s tragic mess of death. [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Bikes · Butchertown · Death · Economy · Greg Fischer · Guns · Hype · Metro Government · Politics · West End · WLKY

Where’s All The Compassion Fischer Promised?

May 17th, 2012 · 6 Comments

It’s been a couple months since Greg Fischer accepted a bogus award honoring Louisville’s alleged loads of compassion: We’re still wondering when that compassion will be exercised by his administration when it comes to whistleblowers, unwanted animals, MSD, LWC, the homeless and everyday taxpayers looking for promised transparency.

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Tags: Greg Fischer · Hype

LWC-MSD Merger Will Only Hurt If You’re Tense

May 16th, 2012 · No Comments

So, how excited are you that Greg Fischer is pushing for the merger of LWC and MSD, just like we said he would? [More Fischer Logic] Maybe Barbara Shanklin should have thought about both nepotism and her grandson’s shenanigans before hiring him. Her pleas fall on deaf ears at this point. [WFPL] Check out this [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Death · Dogs · Greg Fischer · Hype · Lexington · Metro Council · Metro Government · MSD · Possibility City · Water · WLKY

Kentucky Really Does Have Its Priorities Straight

May 15th, 2012 · 1 Comment

For decades America has underinvested in infrastructure—even though poor roads, delayed flights, crumbling bridges and inefficient buildings are an expensive burden. Deficiencies in roads, bridges and transport systems alone cost households and businesses nearly $130 billion in 2010, mostly because of higher running costs and travel delays. [The Economist] The 25 cities with the cleanest [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Gays · Health Care · Hype · Indiana · JCPS · Ohio River Bridges · Scandal · State Government · Travel

Connie Marshall Turned White & Went To Nebraska

May 11th, 2012 · 5 Comments

Oh god. Connie Marshall turned white and moved to Nebraska: Sorry – forgot to give you a pee alert. Doesn’t she look like she’s fresh off the set of Mama’s Family? And here’s the Connie flashback you’re probably itching for:

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Tags: Hype · Mayor's Race 2010

Sorry, But “Compassionate City” Isn’t A Real Thing

May 8th, 2012 · 3 Comments

Why is anybody still pretending the Charter for Compassion or whatever is a real thing in Louisville? It’s not. The city’s own mayor can’t even understand it. [C-J/AKN] Metro Police are searching for the person who shot and killed a man in front of a liquor store in West Louisville. [FOX41] The bourbon had been [...]

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Tags: Churchill Downs · Death · Education · Greg Fischer · Health Care · Hype · Indiana · Jerry Abramson · Kentucky Derby · Lexington · Metro Government · MSD · TV · West End

Cyndi Lauper Really DID Scare All The Meemaws

May 4th, 2012 · 5 Comments

We told you meemaw would be upset about Cyndi Lauper! She dropped the f-bomb on live television and it was awesome. Dawne Gee almost died on the spot. She literally wet herself and all the anchors at other stations had heart palps. (Okay, maybe it wasn’t so awesome for all the little kids who had [...]

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