Seems like it was just yesterday when a member of Greg Fischer’s staff told me I was crazy when I said Justin Scally wouldn’t last two years in Louisville. In light of Scally’s departure from his sad run at Metro Animal Services, it’s time for a bit of a flashback. Because it would be silly [...]

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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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Yesterday, Six Flags Over Jesus held its kick-off event for training teachers to proselytize without getting caught. We wrote about it. Others have discussed it. And some of your local media got the story right – except WAVE3. Some excerpts… WDRB: “To step up your Christian influence in the education system so you can make [...]

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Because that’s how it seems in this article: Louisville is attaining new heights, No. 7 among American cities, in the art of superficial relationships, a survey has found. The online dating site WhatsYourPrice.com conducted a national study to determine which cities are quickest to judge dating potential. Using primarily Google Analytics, the website discovered that [...]

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Mayor Greg Fischer has closed the door on any new tree protection ordinance or even a stop-gap, “no-net-loss” tree policy — at least for now. Fischer sent his economic development director Ted Smith to the Louisville Metro Tree Commission meeting yesterday evening — the first since the commission questioned the mayor’s resolve on his pledge [...]

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Greg Fischer’s re-election campaign may be kicking off but it seems he’s still got a little housekeeping to do: Possibility City! The new excuse? After a year, Fischer’s folks claim they had no control over the account. Also, it seems his initial campaign announcement ended up in the spam folders of nearly everyone in the [...]

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But check this out – Cordish got burned trying to offshore its fortune: Baltimore’s Cordish Co. has apparently been swindled out of $12 million by a New York hedge fund manager who enticed the company’s family owners to place $116 million worth of assets in four offshore trust accounts. Fun stuff for Possibility City as [...]

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The director of the J.B. Ogle Animal Shelter in Jeffersonville, Ind. has resigned, according to a press release from the city’s mayor. [WDRB] Wanna dig in to Kentucky’s immigration chart and basic immigration concepts? It’s a 75-page PDF file, so have at it. [Click the Clicky] Another day, another pedestrian hit and killed in Louisville. [...]

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Louisville sees a triple homicide for the first time in nearly a year. Police found three men, shot dead, outside an apartment building in south Louisville off Georgetown Place, south of Berry Boulevard. [WDRB] Officials who run Louisville International Airport have agreed to sell 18.4 acres in an industrial park near the airport to a [...]

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They are the two new CEO’s of two of the largest area chamber of commerce organizations. Craig Richard, the CEO of Greater Louisville, Inc. and Wendy Chesser, CEO of One Southern Indiana. [WDRB] A federal court has ruled that a Kentucky coal mine owes the government $1.67 million in fines for more than 1,200 safety [...]

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