Jeffersonville’s City Council and Clarksville’s Town Council approved resolutions at separate meetings Monday night urging federal transportation officials to expedite construction of the easter(sic) bridge and postpone the downtown bridge construction until there are alternatives to charging tolls on that span. [C-J/AKN] Maybe Downtown Louisville wouldn’t be in such a sorry state if all of [...]

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Greg Fischer ran on a platform of JOBS, JOBS, JOBS. But when you take a look at page 300 of the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Warning: Massive External PDF Link), you learn: “As shown, construction of the LSIORB Project would result in a shift in permanent employment within the LMPA, and a decrease of [...]

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Remember Bluegrass Boardwalk? The Koch Family secured a fifty year lease from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. But they still haven’t disclosed details of their secretive financing, don’t have ride vendors and the state has to sign the lease and give them “financial incentives.” [WHAS11] If you’re a blogger and you receive equipment, food, products and [...]

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Okay, it’s wholly necessary to heavily excerpt from Dan Klepal’s latest story about Metro Government spending $500,000 on outside legal counsel: The city of Louisville has spent nearly a half-million dollars on outside lawyers to defend itself in a series of lawsuits over the past five years — and the legal tab for taxpayers continues [...]

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Dear Greg: Why do you continue to use your private personal/campaign email account to conduct official city business? GLI even made note of it in an official document that was handed out in Toronto: Could it be that you’re trying to skirt Kentucky’s sunshine laws? Is this yet another example of your infamous transparency?

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Greg Fischer says his New Year’s resolution is more government transparency. Really. He’s still using the transparency talking point. [Business First] This is the creepiest story you will read all week. Hands-down. What a terror. [FOX41] Apparently, no one in Southeastern Kentucky pays attention to how these things fail. Charging a subscriber fee for protection [...]

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You know what’s crazy? We hear this guy has moved his entire office to the second floor of the Homebuilders Association. While he sits on the audit committee. While on the transition team. While making all decisions for planning and zoning. Isn’t that a bit of, uh, um… a bit of an appearance of impropriety?

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Greg Fischer campaigned on transparency and has spent the past year claiming to be the most transparent mayor in the country. Reality? He and his staff are working like mad to hide public documents, to obfuscate, to play pat-a-cake and be all-around difficult butt cramps when it comes to releasing information about their level of [...]

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Don’t act too surprised. Just like we predicted, Greg Fischer’s staff and his new hires at Metro Animal Services are working to withhold information from the public. LMAS is refusing to reveal rescue and transfer information in an open records request filed by No Kill Louisville. Despite, of course, us knowing that the documentation exists [...]

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Yesterday marked the 141st day Republican Party of Kentucky Chairman Steve Robertson has questioned Jack Conway over his involvement in his brother’s drug scandal: “The Conways just seem to keep stepping in it over and over,” said Robertson. “Yesterday we learned that Matt Conway helped expunge a felony from a convicted criminal’s record — the [...]

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