Monthly Archives: May 2011

Judge dismisses lawsuit against Archdiocese of Louisville

May 17, 2011 – 2:06 pm

Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Mitch Perry has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Margie Weiter, a former employee of the Archdiocese of Louisville, and her husband, Gary, who allege that the Archdiocese fired her in retaliation for speaking out about the church’s apparent sheltering of sexually abusive priests. “We cannot believe it,” Gary Weiter tells LEO [...]

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Sen. Rand Paul trounced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, pesky logic

May 12, 2011 – 1:00 pm

In a hearing on the state of the United States’ for-profit, non-competitive, people-killing  healthcare system (which isn’t, by the way, worth a damn), national embarrassment and freshman Republican senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, clashed with Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont over ideology and, so it would also seem, the basic rules of logical thought. Birefly, [...]

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“FACES of Coal” infests EPA hearing

May 11, 2011 – 4:45 pm

Pro-mountaintop removal mining front-group FACES of Coal was in Washington, D.C., today to do what they do best: Lie their pants off! May 11 – Washington, D.C.– Today the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment conducted a second day of hearings on the EPA’s regulatory guidance on surface mining and the economic impacts of EPA’s [...]

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GOP death-budget plan would slash Kentucky Medicaid payments by 32 percent

May 11, 2011 – 12:07 pm

Under the U.S. House GOP death-budget plan authored by Reps. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., and Hal Rogers, R-Pork, Kentucky’s Medicaid system will shed almost 50 percent of its projected enrollment by 2021, and reduce federal funding by nearly 32 percent, leaving scores of impoverished Kentuckians without insurance and placing a greater burden on the state to [...]

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Nunn gets rowdy in the pokey

May 10, 2011 – 1:12 pm

Disgraced former Kentucky lawmaker/Deputy Health and Human Services Secretary and alleged murderer Steve Nunn isn’t getting along with his fellow inmates at Lexington’s Fayette County Jail. From The Herald-Leader: Former state lawmaker Steve Nunn was beaten up Monday after throwing a basketball at a jail inmate facing robbery, rape and other charges, officials said. Nunn, [...]

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Louisville Arena Authority owes city over $55,000 in delinquent taxes

May 3, 2011 – 3:10 pm

The Louisville Arena Authority — the quasi-governmental public-private entity that partnered with taxpayer bailout darlings Goldman Sachs to bring the $238 million KFC Yum! Center to life — owes over $55,000 in delinquent property taxes for 2010, according to the Jefferson County Clerk’s Office list of delinquent taxpayers. The authority currently owes $55,319 due at the end of this [...]

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NMA releases bin Laden death animation, probes American psyche

May 2, 2011 – 5:46 pm

As the nation reacts in wildly varying ways to the news that 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy Seals, the ensuing media saturation has done little to go beyond the raw, revenge-type aspects of the event, as depicted by countless images of Americans celebrating in the streets, chanting “USA! USA!,” waving [...]

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