In the great words of Dubya, “Is our students learning?” A Jefferson County Public Schools teacher has been arrested after police say she sexually abused a student. [WDRB] After his horse Java’s War won the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes on Saturday at Keeneland, trainer Kenny McPeek, the old Tates Creek High School graduate, was asked [...]

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At 11:00 A.M. today, Kentucky Retirement Systems reported that the KERS – the state’s largest fund for state employees – has the lowest funding ratio of any state plan in the entire country. That’s a whopping 24.5%. State officials, for some reason, weren’t aware of just how bad things are. We can chalk that up [...]

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Yesterday we showed you what David Jones is spending his money on. Since his campaign has refused – for whatever reason – to share itemized disbursement data? We’re going to go ahead and be, well, transparent for them. The goods: Andy Reynolds – Campaign Manager Services $6,000 Tessa McNair – Campaign Office Work $3,204 Dana [...]

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Things like these generic, over-produced mail pieces: CLICK TO ENLARGE CLICK TO ENLARGE CLICK TO ENLARGE CLICK TO ENLARGE Fun fact? All kinds of people who don’t live in the 2nd District are receiving his campaign material (that’s how we got our hands on them). Jones may well be the best man for the job [...]

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We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen. [Support Our New Project!] A Louisville high school student has been taken into custody after authorities say he threatened to kill school staff. [WDRB] Another day, another whistleblower scandal in Louisville Metro Government. This time involving a [...]

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Louisville Metro Animal Services is dragging its feet on open records. Again. Someone who has been involved in animal care for quite a while requested the following information: All dogs that entered LMAS between 05/01/2012 and 07/01/2012 ID number Age Breed Intake type (surrender/stray/confiscation/et al) Date animal left LMAS and how it left (transfer to [...]

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If you missed it last week, Kentucky Retirement Systems is now running in circles over currency criticism. [Page One] Police say they’ve arrested a woman responsible for more than a dozen burglaries in the Highlands. Police say this suspect did bizarre things during the crimes, even showering in one of the homes. [WHAS11] This is [...]

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Last night Greg Fischer held another one of his cyberse… internet chats. Here’s Greg throwing up what appears to be an almost shocker (?): Awkward. More awkward than listening to him try to talk to, well, anybody. But there was a question that conveniently remained unaddressed last night about LMEMS shenanigans/Bloomberg/getting spendy: Here’s the text [...]

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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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