Here’s a link to my feature story in LEO this week about a police-citizen conflict in Audubon Park.
The citizen is pissed because after living and parking in the same spot for a decade, the police department in Audubon Park has started enforcing a previously unknown parking ordinance. The police say that getting away with it […]
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Careful Where Your Park
May 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Audubon Park · LMPD · Legal · Police
Ky. Court Says Marriage Trumps Biology
May 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments
Did you hear about this one? The Kentucky Supreme Court, in a split decision, ruled that a biological father had no parental rights to his son because the mother was and is married to another man.
Michael Lindenberger, formerly of the C-J and LEO now living in Dallas, wrote this story about it for Time.
The case, […]
Tags: Legal
Whole Lotta Smokin’ Goin’ On
April 29th, 2008 · 3 Comments
There are a lot of folks who frequent Louisville bars who cop an attitude about smoking. As John Boel found out, using a slick hidden camera, the issue isn’t awareness that the city has a smoking ban. It’s an issue of defiance. Check out Boel’s video — where he found 9 of the 12 […]
Tags: Legal · Smoking Ban · WLKY
It’s Thursday, Be Careful Out There
April 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Careful Opening That Door: Hillary Clinton’s campaign opened an office in Louisville just this week in a building with a controversial past. It was the campaign HQ for Steve Henry’s unsuccessful run in the gubernatorial campaign last year, and is owned by the non-profit The Future Fund Endowment, Inc. Page One has the details […]
Tags: Bruce Lunsford · Doug Hawkins · Legal · Presidential Race 08 · Senate Race 2008 · Sports · WHAS
Not So Fast, My Friends
April 14th, 2008 · No Comments
If you’re in the habit of traling drivers too closely on I-65 in Jefferson and Bullitt Counties, don’t be surprised if it gets you pulled over by a state trooper.
It’s called the “Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks” campaign, brought to you by the Kentucky Vehicle Enforcment Department. As detailed in the KIPDA newsletter, the crackdown […]
Tags: Legal · State Government
Slow March of Justice
March 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Revealing Nothing on New: Attorney Jon Fleischaker, representing the Courier-Journal, says he’s confident that the sealing of evidence in the Cecil New case by Judge Judith McDonald-Burkman will be overturned on appeal. He told me that he has a strong case, that the 3,000 pages of testimony should be made available to the newspaper because […]
Tags: Courier-Journal · Dogs · LMPD · Legal · Metro Council
Sweet Day, Or Sweeps Days
February 14th, 2008 · 10 Comments
Happy Valentine’s Day, Sweetie.
Now that’s a stretch: The latest “Only on Fox” story uncovered the fact that eight rubber gloves were left behind at crime scenes in Louisville. Really. Fox’s Julie Tam actually made a story out of this fact, going so far as to interview a city official, Kerri Richardson, about the supposed “danger” […]
Tags: Hype · Internet · Legal · TV
Cracking Down on Creeps
February 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Kudos to WLKY’s Mike Petchenik, whose TV story on online predators and the law that aired Monday predicted a quick passsage of legislation in the Kentucky General Assembly. House Bill 367 made it out of a House Committee today (Wed.). The story included some remarkable quotes from law enforcement. It turns out that Kentucky’s lax […]
Tags: LMPD · Legal · State Government · TV
What’s Possible Here Not All Good
February 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Not to overdo our city’s “brand” references, but this week’s LEO brings this to mind:
This is a place where you can pack a cache of semiautomatic weapons in your SUV and legally blow away those who cross your path, especially if they’re driving a Hummer.
It’s also a place where residents can’t walk to their corner […]






























