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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

Let’s Rehash Jim Peden’s Crazy Ass Comments

May 1st, 2012 · 1 Comment

For maybe the first time EVER, Greg Fischer is right about something! About housing and what’s considered “low-income.” Jim Peden needs to check himself against reality. If you make $30K, you certainly aren’t a street grunt or riff raff that spends your day thieving. But you probably can’t afford to live in the Highlands with [...]

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Tags: Cordish · Death · Horse Industry · Indiana · JCPS · Kentucky Derby · Metro Council · Poverty · Race · Scandal · State Government

Louisville Just Has Better Manners Than Lexington

April 2nd, 2012 · 5 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] A sports thing happened. A certain coach in Louisville is probably currently regretting gambling on his team (allegedly – says the Karen Sypher team). But people in Lexington [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Charity · Dogs · Health Care · Horse Industry · Indiana · JCPS · Lexington · Race · Sports · State Government · Taxes · University of Kentucky · University of Louisville · Weather

Everything’s Puppies & Rainbows With Cordish!

March 30th, 2012 · 6 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] Greg Fischer can’t even get basketball quotes right. It’s like he wants everyone across the Commonwealth to think he’s as disconnected as he really is. [KSR] There’s a [...]

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Tags: Charity · Cordish · Gays · Greg Fischer · JCPS · Lexington · LMPD · Metro Government · Music · Parks · Race · Scandal · Sex · Sports · WAVE · Weather

Greg Fischer Apparently Thinks This Is High School

March 29th, 2012 · 2 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] Your fancy new police chief will address Metro Council’s Public Safety Committee today at 3:00 P.M. The meeting will be carried live on Metro TV/25. You may also [...]

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Tags: Alcohol · Charity · Downtown · Greg Fischer · Horse Industry · Jack Conway · Jim King · Metro Council · Metro Government · Race · State Government · Weather · WHAS

Sports Thing Overshadows, You Know, Everything

March 28th, 2012 · 1 Comment

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] Amazon has finally confirmed that it has plans to open a distribution center in Jeffersonville. A real slap in the face for Kentucky’s economy, honestly (thanks, Papaw Beshear [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Business · Charity · Health Care · Indiana · Race · Scandal · Sports · University of Louisville · Weather · WHAS

This Is Not 1950, Quit With The Racist Horseshit

March 27th, 2012 · 3 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] Twelve states have joined a lawsuit defending a new rule from the Environmental Protection Agency that will limit mercury and other toxic air emissions. But Kentucky is not [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Charity · Greg Fischer · Horse Industry · Indiana · Lexington · LMPD · MSD · Parks · Race · Scandal · University of Louisville · Weather

More On The New JCPS “Diversity” Director

March 1st, 2012 · 10 Comments

Jamilah Fraser has been hot on the lips of the press since we revealed her past in Philadelphia on The ‘Ville Voice a couple days ago. As you’re likely familiar by now, we don’t put all of our eggs in the basket for the mainstream to swipe in the beginning. So here’s a bit more [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Education · JCPS · Race · Scandal

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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