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Big Idea: Maybe They’ll Toll The Big Four Bridge

October 25th, 2012 · 7 Comments

We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen. [Support Our New Project!] Parents must now use the Internet when they apply for their children to attend a certain school. This is the first time that all applications will need to be submitted online. [WDRB] Keep [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Dogs · Economy · Education · Indiana · JCPS · Kentucky Kingdom · Lexington · Ohio River Bridges · Politics · Poverty · Youth

This City’s Poor Suffer For Months And Months

October 23rd, 2012 · No Comments

Even state government has been contacted by those poorer residents suffering from mold exposure: CLICK TO ENLARGE And no action has been taken. Possibility City!

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Tags: Possibility City · Poverty · State Government

Southern Indiana Makes Kentucky Look Good Lately

October 22nd, 2012 · No Comments

We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen. [Support Our New Project!] The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights has called on the state to end the use of the death penalty, saying it is often applied unfairly against minorities and the poor. [WDRB] What’s that? [...]

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Tags: Crime · Death · Indiana · JCPS · Jeffersontown · Kentucky Kingdom · Lexington · Possibility City · Poverty

Time For Greg To Form Another Big “Task Force”

October 19th, 2012 · No Comments

Remember when you told me there was nothing I could reveal that would make you remove Wayne Zelinsky at Metro Animal Services? And then the next day you had to hold a rushed press conference to name drop this website’s work as the reason he was being “resigned”? That should be all the proof you [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Greg Fischer · Health Care · Housing · Metro Government · Possibility City · Poverty

Wanna Die Or Get Poisoned By Mold? It’s Possible!

October 18th, 2012 · No Comments

We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen. [Support Our New Project!] Poor and living in an apartment owned by a slumlord? You’re screwed. Experts uncover more mold inside dorms on the U of L campus, but this time students will not have to move [...]

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Tags: Death · Indiana · Jail · JCPS · Lexington · Metro Government · Politics · Possibility City · Poverty · University of Louisville

Dear Metro Govt., Metro Councilpeople, Et Al…

October 16th, 2012 · 7 Comments

Could someone please take this problem at Blue Diamond Apartments a little more seriously? Maybe someone at Housing and HUD? I have emails involving Councilwoman Vicki Aubrey Welch from early June informing her of the problem/requesting assistance. Nothing has changed. Have the same from officials at HUD and Metro Housing. No improvements at all. Here’s [...]

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Tags: Greg Fischer · Housing · Metro Council · Metro Government · Oops · Poverty

Seems Like A Lot Of People Are Dying Lately

October 16th, 2012 · 1 Comment

We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen. [Support Our New Project!] Louisville Metro Police are investigating after two people were found dead inside a home in the Highlands. [WDRB] The hearing officer who will preside over the ethics complaint against Louisville Metro Councilwoman Barbara [...]

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Tags: Arena · Death · Ethics · Health Care · LG&E · LMPD · Metro Council · Poverty · State Government · West End

Like It Or Not, Medicaid Matters A Lot In Louisville

October 10th, 2012 · No Comments

While it’s no secret that Audrey Haynes is just repeating political talking points from the administration, it’s still alarming when anybody does so when it comes to health care and the poor. (Related: We’d take Haynes seriously if she took her job seriously. The amount of scandalous behavior in DCBS in counties like Montgomery is [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Health Care · Poverty · Scandal · State Government

Louisville Yearns To Become Murder Capital Of US

September 20th, 2012 · No Comments

How do you make poor Kentuckians even more poor? Tax their food. Which is what the Steve Beshear-Jerry Abramson “tax reform” folks want to do. [AP] Who will get hired to build the new Ohio River Bridges Debacle? Federal rules prevent guaranteeing bridge jobs will go to local workers. [C-J/AKN] Another day, another shooting in [...]

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Tags: Art · Awards · Death · Education · Guns · Horse Industry · Indiana · John Yarmuth · Ohio River Bridges · Politics · Poverty · Travel

Possiblity City Could Be Called Murder City, Maybe

September 13th, 2012 · No Comments

The United States’ southern border bristles with technology and manpower designed to catch illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. Since 1986, the government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on fences, aircraft, detention centers and agents. [NPR] Police say a suspect shot himself after a high-speed chase and brief standoff in south Louisville Wednesday afternoon. [...]

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Tags: Alcohol · Bad Behavior · Charity · Death · Immigration · MSD · Poverty · State Government · Steve Beshear

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