November 20, 2009 – 10:36 am
The mayoral campaign for Metro Councilman Jim King, D-10, is in hot water with St. X High School after sending an unauthorized e-mail using the school’s alumni association logo that went out to an unknown number of former students.
The e-mail promotion sent out late yesterday afternoon attaches King’s biography as the “Son of St. X [...]
November 12, 2009 – 12:01 pm
Wayside Hotel: Until Wayside Christian Mission gets permission from Metro government’s Planning and Design Services department, they are not allowed to operate the old Louisville Hotel as a homeless shelter. But Wayside Director Nina Moseley found a crafty loophole. They are allowing about 30 single women and 50 families from their current shelter to stay [...]
November 10, 2009 – 2:30 pm
State Budget Director Mary Lassiter reported today that Kentucky’s General Fund and Road Fund receipts fell 4 percent in the month of October compared to last year. Total revenues for the month were $652.4 million, compared to $679.6 million during October 2008. The budget director reports that receipts have now fallen 5.2 percent in the [...]
November 10, 2009 – 12:05 pm
Abortion meets Health Care: The 11th-hour compromise on abortion access helped get health care reform through the House of Representatives, but the Stupak-Pitts amendment has infuriated progressives. Hoping to untangle health care reform from the abortion debate, some U.S. senators have already promised to block the anti-choice amendment in their version of the bill. President [...]
November 5, 2009 – 12:01 pm
What we audit do: The Metro Council’s Government Accountability Committee unanimously approved the “open books” ordinance, a city bill sponsored by Councilman Jim King, D-10, and Kelly Downard, R-16, which would force companies receiving city tax dollars to make their expenditures public. The measure was drafted in response to the refusal by The Cordish [...]
October 29, 2009 – 12:02 pm
Not o-KACo: State Auditor Crit Luallen released a scathing special examination of the Kentucky Association of Counties (KACo) today, which found a “self-serving” culture that resulted in more than $3 million in excessive or questionable spending over a three-year period. Among Luallen’s blistering findings, it was uncovered that nearly $2 million was charged on agency [...]
October 26, 2009 – 9:47 am
Bright news for the commonwealth came this morning when it was announced that State Auditor Crit Luallen has been named a 2009 “Public Official of the Year” by Washington D.C.-based magazine Governing for her positive impact on state government. The profile focuses on Luallen’s long-standing career as well as being “Frankfort’s Fiscal Enforcer” in the [...]
October 20, 2009 – 12:01 pm
Mud bath: Kentucky Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo’s U.S. Senate campaign is accusing Attorney General Jack Conway of being somehow involved in the infamous “Mongiardo Tapes”, which are posted all over the Internet. In both recordings Mongiardo can be heard cursing and criticizing Gov. Steve Beshear, at one point saying that being Beshear’s lieutenant governor is [...]
October 16, 2009 – 1:20 pm
The bizarre story and media circus surrounding the 6-year-old “balloon boy” only gets weirder. The rumors have already begun swirling that the entire drama might have been a hoax orchestrated by the boy’s publicity hungry dad. Those speculations weren’t helped by the family’s convenient reality-TV moment that aired this morning on the Today Show, where [...]
October 15, 2009 – 12:01 pm
Cut list: Despite the optimistic economic forecast nationally, Mayor Jerry Abramson says the first quarter is not looking good and more cuts to the budget are likely. After last year’s slash and burn, we are wondering what might be on this year’s cut list and whether the mayor spoke too soon when he canceled the [...]
