Louisville Metro Police say they’ve arrested a woman after she allegedly beat and choked her 12-year-old nephew. [WDRB] It will take a little digging and watering, but the Floyd County Nutrition Coalition provided residents with a way to eat healthier without having to visit the grocery store. [News & Tribune] Thousands of bones are on [...]

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Friday marked one year since the deadly shootings in the West Louisville, that left a lasting impact on our community. On Saturday, hundreds of people, including gunshot survivors, banded together with a call for peace. [WDRB] Just think – it’s all thanks to mismanagement and will be used to pay for that corrupt swap. Louisville’s [...]

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The way is being cleared for construction to begin on the new Downtown Crossing. Signs of progress are already visible, with work under way on the safety zone at Waterfront Park. [WDRB] Can Colonel Sanders win back Chinese diners? Louisville-based Yum! Brands Inc., which owns KFC, reported last week that same-store sales in China plunged [...]

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Want to get even more angry about paying that extra $10 per month? Here, read about LIBOR: Just as you’re struggling to finance a summer vacation, or simply to pay the freaking rent, how would you like to open your wallet and hand over a wad of cash to a gang of international con artists [...]

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General Electric is hoping to bring some excitement to the chore of doing laundry with a line of high-efficiency, front-loading washers and dryers. The new line means about 200 new jobs in Louisville. [WLKY] Why the hell is government constantly creating charities? The Louisville Water Co. has created a charitable affiliate, the Louisville Water Foundation, [...]

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Recent rainfall in Louisville Metro may cause sewers to overflow into drainage ditches and nearby streams, according to city officials. [WDRB] The family of Louisville Metro Councilman Tom Owen has sold a large plot of land on Fourth Street near the University of Louisville Belknap Campus for $5.65 million to a North Carolina firm that [...]

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You know those Libor interest rate swaps – much like those that Metro Sewer District in Louisville did? You know, the ones that are the main culprit in Detroit? Yeah? The largest part is $350 million owed for derivatives meant to lower borrowing costs on variable-rate debt. Municipal borrowers from the Metropolitan Water District of [...]

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Flashback to December 2011 when we published this. That’s just scratching the surface.

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Nearly all of Jefferson County’s persistently low-achieving public schools are failing to improve, a situation so dire that Kentucky’s education commissioner called it “academic genocide” and warned that the state may be forced to intercede. [Toni Konz] Most of the children at one Louisville elementary school don’t get healthy food on the weekends. [WDRB] For [...]

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The effort to merge MSD and the Water Company is getting bigger and bigger. It’s only a matter of time until you’re spending even more money on the two services. [WHAS11] The number of construction jobs in the Louisville metropolitan statistical area declined by 3.5 percent from December 2011 to December 2012, according to a [...]

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