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The Ohio River? What A Miserable Place To Die

January 28th, 2013 · No Comments

Retailers now have the option to charge a checkout fee when you use your credit card. The new checkout fee would offset the fee retailers pay credit card processors. [WDRB] A military veteran who was confronted by Louisville police last year at Mid City Mall has filed a lawsuit over the incident claiming he was [...]

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Tags: Business · Death · Education · Greg Stumbo · Guns · Housing · Indiana · LMPD · State Government · Steve Beshear · West End

Woo, Downtown Gets More Consultants To Consult!

January 25th, 2013 · No Comments

The Americana Community Center showed off its renovations to the former Holy Rosary Academy campus in an open house Thursday morning. [WDRB] Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer touted the city’s strides under his leadership, laid out a series of goals and lobbied for a local-option sales tax during his annual State of the City address Thursday. [...]

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Tags: Downtown · Greg Fischer · Health Care · Indiana · Kentucky Kingdom · Metro Government · Race · University of Kentucky · West End

Councilwoman Attica Scott Improves Her District

January 10th, 2013 · No Comments

Wanna see some of the houses Attica Scott is paying to tear down? She’s spending $25,000 in Capital Infrastructure Funds to help remove abandoned homes that blight her district. Here you go – the first home was on Virginia Avenue: Pending properties: 2011 41st Street 4853 Cane Run Road 1323 Cypress Street 1152 Ellerholt Ct [...]

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Tags: Metro Council · Possibility City · West End

Jeffersonville’s Mayor Is A Real Life Hot Mess

December 20th, 2012 · No Comments

We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen because it’s so close we can taste it. [Support Our New Project!] Former McMahan Fire Chief Paul Barth begins serving his prison sentence [yesterday] after stealing $200,000 meant for the Crusade for Children. [WDRB] We’re not going [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Crime · Guns · Highlands · Indiana · Jail · Metro Government · Mitch McConnell · State Government · West End · Youth

Metro Council Rolls Eyes At Greg Fischer’s Mess

December 4th, 2012 · No Comments

Here’s hoping everyone saw how biased WHAS11 was at 6:00 P.M. when it gave Bob Gunnell’s distortions the finale word in the NBA shenanigans. It’s like they’re trying to out-hype WAVE. Also convenient that at after Miller’s presser was announced, Jim Ramsey mysteriously decided to hold a presser at the same time. [Teevee Disasters] J. [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Death · Greg Fischer · Hype · Indiana · John Yarmuth · Metro Council · Mitch McConnell · Sports · State Government · Steve Beshear · West End · WHAS

A Local Paper Loses Yet Another Prominent Name

November 27th, 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!] You literally cannot walk anywhere in Louisville without getting killed dead. [WDRB] Lexington has decided to follow in Louisville’s footsteps by shutting out the poorest people in the Commonwealth by charging for news. [...]

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Tags: Courier-Journal · Death · Education · Greg Stumbo · Guns · Indiana · Jail · JCPS · Lexington · Newspaper · State Government · University of Louisville · West End

We Hear Shanklin Has More To Hide Than We Know

November 9th, 2012 · 2 Comments

We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen. [Support Our New Project!] Uh, Possibility City? Police say a man who wanted the cab he was riding in to stop grabbed the steering wheel while it was in motion with the intention of causing a crash. [...]

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Tags: Bad Behavior · Education · Ethics · Greater Louisville Inc. · Indiana · Jerry Abramson · Metro Council · Mitch McConnell · Politics · Taxes · West End

No One Pays Attention To The School Board Races

October 17th, 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!] Plans are moving forward to build a new YMCA branch in west Louisville. The new branch will be at the site of the Old Philip Morris plant at 18th and Broadway. [WDRB] City [...]

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Tags: Business · Death · Horse Industry · Housing · JCPS · Politics · Sports · West End

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

We Won’t Be Riding JCPS Buses Any Time Soon

October 1st, 2012 · No Comments

All but one of the 51 students hurt in Friday morning’s school bus crash have been released from the hospital. The student is listed in good condition at Kosair Children’s Hospital. [WDRB] A dozen witnesses testified on Thursday about the hours-long waits, multiple trips and misinformation they experienced in getting the voter ID cards required [...]

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