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What If UofL Had Merged With Those Hospitals?

May 14th, 2012 · 2 Comments

Why is it, exactly, no one in the mainstream media wants to talk about Jewish Hospital/Kentucky One closing entire units and laying people off? Many now-former employees receiving severance packages were forced to sign agreements that they wouldn’t speak publicly about the closure of their unit and loss of their job. [Deep Hospital Thoughts] The [...]

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Tags: Churchill Downs · Death · Downtown · Economy · Health Care · Horse Industry · LG&E · Newspaper · Ohio River Bridges · Oops · Politics · Race · Travel

Why Do Fern Creek Kids Need Guns, Anyway?

May 10th, 2012 · 5 Comments

It’s always nice to see Kentucky artists getting lots of national recognition. So take a look at these ten Kentucky bands you should listen to now. [Paste Magazine] Yesterday, LG&E announced the retirement of Chip Keeling as Vice President of Communications. His replacement will be Chris Whelan. Guess that little incident turned out to be [...]

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Tags: Arena · Discrimination · Gays · Greg Fischer · Guns · Housing · John Yarmuth · LG&E · Media · Metro Council · MSD · Music · Politics · Race · Travel

Why Is The Mainstream Eating Chip Keeling Alive?

April 25th, 2012 · 17 Comments

Seriously, why is this Chip Keeling story an Associated Press story? Why is this relevant to news? It’s beginning to smell like someone’s got a personal vendetta against the guy. [H-L] The orchestra and its musicians plan to sign a full agreement this week. Will the cat fighting finally end? [FOX41] The mainstream finally wrote [...]

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Tags: Business · Death · Downtown · Hype · JCPS · LG&E · Metro Government · Mitch McConnell · Music · Newspaper · Scandal · Sex · WAVE

Bullying, Breast Feeding And More Local Bullshiz

April 24th, 2012 · 1 Comment

Jeffersonville can’t finish anything it starts and now wants to build a new $7.5 million police station? Yeah, that sounds like a smart idea. [FOX41] As if listening to Doug Proffitt freak out about it all day yesterday wasn’t enough, you get to hear about it again today. Teddy Gordon and Joy Furman, the mother [...]

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Tags: Economy · Indiana · JCPS · John Yarmuth · LG&E · MSD · Possibility City · State Government

CLOUT Calls Fischer Out, He Tucks Tail & Runs

April 19th, 2012 · 1 Comment

Greg Fischer lied to CLOUT last year over affordable housing funds and CLOUT leaders called him out. Literally called him a liar. Now he’s afraid to attend their annual meeting and is saying he was treated rough. [Dan Klepal] Everybody is completely freaking out about the Student Assignment Plan being before the Kentucky Supreme Court. [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Greg Fischer · Health Care · Horse Industry · Housing · JCPS · LG&E · Oops · Poverty · State Government · Steve Beshear · University of Louisville

Greg’s Top Guy & The KRS Whitewash Under Way

April 17th, 2012 · 1 Comment

You should probably get a load of the top guy in the running to be the new Executive Director of Kentucky Retirement Systems. It won’t blow your mind if you’ve been paying attention. Primarily because Greg Fischer’s top guy is the fellow making the selection. [Page One] The State House and Senate started flushing more [...]

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Tags: Charity · Health Care · Jeffersontown · John Yarmuth · Journalism · Kentucky Derby · LG&E · Ohio River Bridges · Scandal · State Government · University of Louisville · Youth

Fischer-KRS Get Great Ass Beating From Oldfather

March 22nd, 2012 · 13 Comments

We’re not going to shut up about you giving to the Red Cross for tornado relief efforts. This will take a long time. [Click Here To Give] Look, people, stop acting shocked that nothing is happening in Frankfort with the Kentucky Retirement Systems corruption. Just look at these old stories to see why your beloved [...]

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Tags: Charity · Dogs · Gas · Greg Fischer · Health Care · Homeless · Hype · Indiana · Lexington · LG&E · Metro Government · Scandal · State Government · University of Louisville · Weather

Maybe Not Such A Great Week For TARC News

February 28th, 2012 · No Comments

No, the Kings are not moving to Louisville. Quit holding your breath and believing that hype. [Click the Clicky] Don’t you find it hilarious that the only people attacking the addition of a sidewalk in an area sorely in need of pedestrian traffic is someone at an elitist hair salon run by people who drive [...]

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Tags: Arena · Bad Behavior · Hype · Indiana · LG&E · MSD · Scandal · State Government · TARC · WHAS

You Stroking Out Over The Cordish Scandal Yet?

February 23rd, 2012 · No Comments

After mountains of pressure, Greg Fischer decided to kill that $850,000 was of cash for Cordish. What is it with these people that causes them to have zero common sense? That never should have gotten as screwed up as it did. And let’s not pretend Greg didn’t already know The Learning House was the potential [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Cordish · Discrimination · Greg Fischer · Greg Stumbo · Hype · Jack Conway · John Yarmuth · LG&E · Oops · Poverty · State Government

Fischer Giving More Money To Cordish Failures

February 22nd, 2012 · 20 Comments

There’s a movement under way to oust Harold Workman from the Kentucky State Fair Board. It needs to happen. This is the first sign that the board has life in it in a long time. Unfortunately, it may be too little, too late. The state owes Ed Hart tons of money while workman rakes in [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Cordish · Festival · Gambling · Greg Fischer · Indiana · LG&E · LMPD · Metro Council · Movies · Race · State Government · Travel

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