August – 2010

Monthly Archives: August 2010

Incentive to discriminate

August 26, 2010 – 2:32 pm

In this week’s physical manifestation of the entity known as “LEO Weekly,” we tell you about the pro-big business machinations of the multi-tentacled Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation. We forgot to tell you, however, about the dozens of businesses that give Farm Bureau policy-holders product and service discounts — essentially trading financial incentives for tacit support [...]

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Vapor City

August 25, 2010 – 12:12 pm

Well move over Hotlanta and screw you Phoenix, according to the National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration Louisville was the hottest city this summer with 73 days above normal temperatures. From Yahoo News! (h/t The Edit): The city normally sees summer high temperatures ranging from 83 in June to 87 in July. But this year it logged [...]

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Fischer, Heiner roll out ads

August 25, 2010 – 8:30 am

The first set of television commercials in the 2010 mayoral campaign begin airing today, which signifies the kick-off to the general election. Democrat Greg Fischer spent $75,000 to produce a new 30-second spot that will run on network television for the next two weeks, which features the KFC Yum! Center, investing in neighborhoods and improving [...]

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KY Fair Board spokeswoman allegedly goes batshit on JC Penney employee

August 24, 2010 – 3:34 pm

As someone who’s been assaulted by a low-ranking political figure with anger management issues, I can say with some authority that, in fact, it really sucks. (Especially so if the political figure won his party’s nomination for Oldham County magistrate, but I digress) Here you are, just trying to do your job, and somebody puts [...]

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Bridges Authority to “examine” alternatives

August 24, 2010 – 3:13 pm

At the next meeting of the Louisville-Southern Indiana Bridges Authority, expect a lot of straw-man argumentation. The 14-member unelected body will examine alternatives to the $4.1. billion Ohio River Bridges Project, including grassroots favorite 8664 and the Mississippi River bridge, whose example speaks to the possibility of scaling down the massive project. In all likelihood, [...]

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Louisville take note, New Albanians reject ORBP

August 23, 2010 – 2:30 pm

We were beginning to think no one else took notice that the New Albany City Council passed a resolution condemning tolling as a way to pay for the $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridges Project. From News and Tribune: Council President John Gonder said the latest plan offered would charge a Hoosier commuter $6 a day [...]

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New blog, ‘JCPS confidential’ launched

August 23, 2010 – 11:43 am

The beginning of the year for Jefferson County Public Schools started with a serious snafu in busing, two principal suspensions and a superintendent playing dodgeball with the press. Now a new blog has launched encouraging “whistleblowers” to come forward and report mismanagement in the school system, which could shake things up even more. Last week, [...]

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New Albany passes anti-toll resolution

August 20, 2010 – 4:10 pm

Last night, the New Albany City Council approved the rough draft of a resolution condemning tolling as a means to pay for the $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridges Project — which will build an East End bridge, a Downtown bridge and an expansion of Spaghetti Junction — as well as specifically advocating that the project [...]

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Rand Paul Win-watch, Episode I

August 20, 2010 – 1:57 pm

This (and this (not to mention this)) is probably why Democratic candidate Jack Conway is losing to Republican Rand Paul: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT5QWb0Vdmk[/youtube] How else can you explain the Commonwealth’s extremely positive response to Rand Paul, a man whose national palatability ranks him somewhere between a Klansmen and a viable candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1810 [...]

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Today’s Woman mayoral exposé

August 20, 2010 – 11:46 am

In the August issue of gritty investigative journalism bastion Today’s Woman, Louisville’s leading mayoral men talk lotions, potions and how women go unrecognized because they’re not men. Why, did you know that… …Democratic candidate Greg Fischer abhors aftershave (“I don’t want to wear any scented lotions or potions.”)? …Republican candidate Hal Heiner admires women for [...]

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