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Monthly Archives: April 2011

Kentucky Environmental Foundation files notice of intent to sue EPA over soot emission controls

April 19, 2011 – 1:54 pm

The Kentucky Environmental Foundation has filed a notice of intent to sue the federal Environmental Protection Agency for failing to take action on state-level implementation plans regarding the curbing of soot emissions. According to press release sent out last week, the EPA’s deadline for approving so-called state-implementation plans expired June 2009. The EPA has 60 [...]

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Local blogger files lawsuit against blog

April 15, 2011 – 10:03 am

Jacob Payne, the blogger behind The Ville Voice and Page One Kentucky websites, has filed a lawsuit in Jefferson Circuit Court against the “anonymous blogger(s)” responsible for a website, dubbed “Watching Jake,” that is critical of Payne, which in turn prompted a bonafide Courier-Journal article on the matter, jettisoning the story into the real world. The [...]

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With gov’t. shutdown averted, nation goes back to sucking hard as usual

April 12, 2011 – 4:55 pm

Sure, we were worried about that government shutdown and how it could pave the way for a possible Chinese invasion, but if this is what it looks like when the government is actually functioning, maybe a Red invasion would do us some good. Lawmakers lifted the curtain Tuesday on a 2011 spending plan that will [...]

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Dear China: Please don’t invade us this weekend.

April 8, 2011 – 11:09 am

We repeat: Do not assemble your legions of commie hackers to sabotage our power grid as our leaders preoccupy themselves with weakening our nation on your behalf. Sure, it would make for a great “first strike” in a ground invasion of America — while we’re busy squabbling over abortion access funding as a means to shutdown [...]

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Louisvillian name dropped by Obama, criticizes gov’t. over potential shutdown

April 7, 2011 – 12:44 pm

Burning up the Kentucky blogosphere today is the story of J.T. Henderson, a Louisville man who President Obama mentioned by name during a press conference after ABC News ran a story featuring Henderson’s answer to the following question: How would a government shutdown (aka The Paul Ryan/Hal Rogers Death-Budget) effect your family’s day-to-day life? Writing [...]

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Louisville suburbs growing at expense of urban core, sayith Census

April 7, 2011 – 11:45 am

The Courier-Journal’s Marcus Green has a fantastic piece out today detailing the demographic trends in Metro Louisville suggested by the 2010 census. In the urban core, that trend is — to borrow a phrase from our former mayor — poorer, older and blacker than the city’s suburbs, which are actually growing robustly. Only a handful of neighborhoods [...]

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Yarmuth trounces GOP’s death-budget

April 5, 2011 – 3:48 pm

A major tip o’ the cap to Barefoot & Progressive for this footage of Louisville 3rd District Rep. John Yarmuth dispensing with the awesome. In today’s episode, Yarmuth chastises the Republican Party’s hideous “budget plan,” which amounts to an egregious heist of wealth from the 98 percent of Americans by the top two percent, who are currently [...]

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Dismas “charities” roasted in state audit

April 5, 2011 – 2:29 pm

Ever-awesome State Auditor Crit Luallen released a 77-page audit of the Louisville-based Dismas Charities today in which the non-profit transitional housing company is criticized for lavish spending and salaries for its executive staff as well as for a lack of transparency. The audit was comissioned following Dismas executives’ purchase of luxury box seats at the [...]

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Yum! lobbies Frankfort so you can buy a Double Down with food stamps

April 5, 2011 – 12:06 pm

Welcome to America! A glorious land where we defund Meals on Wheels programs in order to replace them with government subsidized buckets of greasy fried chicken: FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Louisville-based fast food giant Yum! Brands Inc. is lobbying the Beshear administration to make Kentucky one of only a handful of states that allow food [...]

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Councilwoman Green issues statement on LEO fake issue letter

April 1, 2011 – 1:55 pm

It was only a matter of time before the fabricated content of LEO’s third annual fake issue would solicit a too real response from some corner of this city, but we didn’t expect that embattled Metro Councilwoman Judy Green, D-1, would actually be the one to respond to a fake letter to the editor written [...]

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