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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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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Today’s big news stories, and the C-J’s front page:
Shot Dead, Good Timing: All day yesterday, news stations covered the police shooting in the South End, which occurred conveniently before the Noon news. WHAS-TV sent three different reporters (Melanie Snow, Chuck Olmstead, Adam Walser) to Third Street throughout the day. It leads the C-J. But reporters […]

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A man who robbed the Beechmont location of Stock Yards Bank in Louisville was shot to death today just after 12:00 Noon.
It’s 2008. Why do people even attempt to rob banks these days?
This is what happens when you do crazy crap. You get shot - 14 or 15 times - until you’re dead […]

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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 […]

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You were wondering, perhaps, who’s watching the nightly news?
Apparently some folks on the Metro Council are paying pretty close attention. Last Wednesday the Health and Human Needs Committee hauled representatives from LMPD and EMS to their meeting to ask them about a fictional problem uncovered by Fox41’s Julie Tam. Surely you remember the blue glove […]

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The crisis at Fern Creek High School ended peacefully, and thankfully Louisville isn’t going to be the latest location for a school shooting tragedy. While the crisis was ongoing, Louisville Police quickly got their helicopter in the air, hovering above the campus, getting an aerial view of a scary situation.
Interesting that the crisis occurred the […]

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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 […]

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It’s one of the mysteries of modern office life. If you’re sitting in front of a computer in Louisville today, and you haven’t gotten copied on the e-mail about a speeding crackdown in February, consider yourself among the fortunate few. Here at the V.V., we’ve gotten it from several sources.
Now, the claims in it seem […]

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I took two courses on Logic in college, and what I mostly remember is Descartes’ famed quote “I think, therefore I am.” That’s because we changed the “think” to “drink” when contemplating logic at the Pike House.
But I know that FOP president John McGuire’s logic would fail any test. In a piece produced by Andy […]

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