Getting On the Economy: Yesterday, Tom Dorsey tried his hand at criticizing news broadcasts, ultimately suggesting that citizens turn to NPR instead of network newscasts for stories about the economy. Maybe he was channeling the comments that would be made by Christiane Amanpour, who declard that NPR was being successful because of its “commitment to […]

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The Mayor’s Office is getting really serious about this bicycle thing — the next thing you know Jerry himself will be riding a two-wheeler to work.
At least that’s what I’d recommend if I were advising the Mayor. You can scream your lungs out about the benefits of bicylcing to work, but if the Mayor would […]

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Whoa, Boy. In Dan Klepal’s C-J story this morning on the city budget, Jerry Abramson says the city would be a “hurtin’ cowboy” if not for a few breaks it got in the budget. Still, he’s singing the budget blues again, cutting another $3 million from the city budget for this fiscal year, just weeks […]

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Here’s just the news you need to bring you out of that rain-induced bummer-dom:
Louisville has been recognized as one of the most-improved cities in the U.S. for biking by Bicycling Magazine. In the story, the magazine credits Mayor Jerry Abramson for the 2005 Bike Summit he organized that kicked off the local cycling surge. Add […]

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From about Wednesday on, the only question worth asking among friends in Louisville is this one: What are you doing for Derby?
I thought it would be an interesting query for our local officials, so I did a little survey, asking members of the Metro Council which party they’re going to Friday night and how they’re […]

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Pardon the temptation to scoff at the first two parts of WHAS-TV’s Escort series by Adam Walser. The first two parts, which aired last night, left us disappointed that no customers were outed. We thought, based on the promos, that Jerry Abramson might turn up on a list of johns.
What we did learn is that, […]

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I grew up in what was then considered the South End, near Iroquois Park, and we always had this mindset that we were looked down on by those snooty East End-ers, with their McMansions and their fancy cars, their upscale restaurants, even their nicer Little League parks. We proudly called ourselves rednecks, and joked that […]

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It really doesn’t matter what the Mayor, the police, or the public safety officials say, folks in the South End aren’t buying it.
The two sides squared off last night at Fairdale High School, with residents firing accusations at Mayor Jerry Abramson while the Mayor defended his actions, accusing the Metro Council’s Doug Hawkins of “false […]

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There’s an editorial in this morning’s C-J from the heads of six neighborhood groups that makes a lot of sense, so its suggestions won’t likely go anywhere.
The neighborhood folks don’t understand why the city has to close down the swimming pools around town. They’ve been told it’s the city’s budget crisis that’s at fault. But […]

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Well, maybe this is the last new development we’ll have on this story, but I doubt it. Our man Hawkins ran out to the Cardinal Hill Reservoir and recorded a YouTube video designed to scare the bejeezus out of you.
Other than not being able to say “nuclear” correctly, he warns that the Mayor and his […]

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Is anyone surprised that Mayor Jerry Abramson called out Doug Hawkins today, after Hawkins tried to stir up some fear by proclaiming the South End in mortal danger due to a couple of bomb shelters being installed there.
Abramson, interviewed on the subject by WLKY, nailed Hawkins by noting that the Councilman is running for another […]

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Gotta love that Doug Hawkins.
The District 25 Metro Councilman has found another issue to promote panic on Dixie Highway, and he’s on it with his hype machine. He’s scheduled a community meeting Wednesday night at the Southwest Government Center, and he’s got one of his newsletters out, asking constituents to call the Water Company and […]

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Ed Springston is running for a seat on the Metro Council in District 14, and he’s making some folks uncomfortable.
Springston, who ran against Jerry Abramson for Mayor two years ago, is one of the Mayor’s chief critics. He’s a thorn in the side of government agencies like the Metropolitan Sewer District and the office of […]

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Dear God, it’s Spring Break. We’re sorry. Please stop the @x#$ rain.

Yes to Vince, no to Bob Knight. It was almost believable, so most local sportscasts mentioned the possibility that Bob Knight was a candidate to become basketball coach at Western. Not gonna happen. WKU had better get Vince Taylor on board quick. Taylor’s paid […]

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You didn’t think area banks would allow PNC Bank to get all the credit for helping save Little League, did you?
Today Mayor Jerry Abramson will announce that seven local banks, along with Hillerich & Bradsby, have come up with $65,000 to pay the light bill at area Little League parks for the 2008 calendar year.
The […]

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Good riddance, March and your Rain, Rain, Rain.
Pepper Out: The fish sign guy, Norman Pepper, won’t be running for the Metro Council District 14 seat after all. Turns out Pepper, who owns a bait-and-tackle store out Dixie Highway, forgot that he was registered as an independent when he signed his filing papers as a Republican […]

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OK, the e-mail from the 8664 folks wasn’t all that giddy, but there is some excitement in its tone.
Today, the 8664 organization is urging citizens to call Frankfort and tell Senators to approve $341 million in bridges spending, money that could get the East End bridges project going. From 8664, the result would be:
If […]

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Cheap Publicity Stunt: And people get paid for this. And it works, if the goal is to generate publicity. This morning at 6:30, the mayor’s office sent word to media in Tennessee that Kentucky bourbon was on its way to the mayor of Knoxville, the better to help drown his sorrows after Thursday’s basketball game. […]

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Of all the proposed cuts in services offered up by the Mayor’s Office, those cuts to youth sports programs seem like the cruelest of all. It was an easy media story — interview the poor volunteers who can’t make their budgets work with the unexpected expense of paying the electric bill.
There’s some outrage, sure, among […]

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Kind of a strange way to find out, but as Comment readers on this site learned a few minutes ago, WLKY-TV has completed a deal with WMYO-TV to televise Thursday’s Western Kentucky-UCLA game from Phoenix live, IN HD, no less, on WMYO-TV, while the Louisville-Tennessee game from Birmingham is shown on WLKY-TV.
Here’s the comment, from […]

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