November 2, 2009 – 12:10 pm
Militias?!?!: Oh god. Chris Kenning’s wonderful story in Sunday’s CJ about the uptick in Kentucky militias — a reaction to the crap-ass economy and the election of President Obama — left us unsettled and a little afraid, with echoes of Waco playing in our heads. Read it.
Dog days continue: In last week’s print issue we [...]
October 19, 2009 – 12:25 pm
Feeling healthy again?: A super-bitchy major health care provider and its super-bitchy nemesis insurer have finally agreed to disagree. With the end of the Norton-Anthem dispute — in which services between the two were halted July 1, after Norton demanded double-digit increases in reimbursements and Anthem said no — comes reinstatement of patients’ full, hard-earned [...]
October 12, 2009 – 1:26 pm
Bag Krag?: He’ll announce today that he’s resigning! U of L AD Tom Jurich has Jon Gruden waiting in the wings! Wait, the Cards won on Saturday? As the inestimable Eric Crawford wrote in Sunday’s C-J, the rumor mongers are going to hound U of L football coach Steve Kragthorpe until … well, forever. And [...]
September 17, 2009 – 1:41 pm
Like 60 or so other people, I dropped by the waterfront yesterday morning for Tyler Allen’s first public foray into campaign politics, a 15-minute or so speech announcing his candidacy for mayor. He stood on a makeshift stage just feet away from the edge of our Mighty Ohio River, on a day on which the [...]
September 15, 2009 – 3:48 pm
Tyler Allen, co-founder of 8664.org, announced today he is leaving the organization to run for mayor of Louisville. The announcement, sent in an e-mail blast to the 12,000-some registered supporters of the initiative to tear down a stretch of waterfront highway to make way for development and greenspace, comes as little surprise, as Allen filed [...]
August 31, 2009 – 12:09 pm
Day one: The trial of ex-PRP football coach Jason Stinson begins today, and with everything that’s riding on it — permanent changes to the way high school football coaches work with their players being the national story, Stinson and PRP’s future the local one — it’s certain to be a circus. Stinson was at the [...]
August 21, 2009 – 12:47 pm
In this week’s column I wrote that, in the total absence of accountability on Cordish’s Sports & Social Club project at Fourth Street Live, city government should consider adding a provision to contracts using taxpayer funds that would allow for a full auditing of subsequent spending.
Huzzah!: Next week, Democrat Jim King and Republican Kelly Downard [...]
August 20, 2009 – 2:56 pm
I wrote a story in this week’s print edition about the local group(s) engaged in the teabagging of health care reform; that is, the attempt by a radical minority of right-wing Republicans and Libertarians to derail any debate on reform of the health insurance industry by disrupting public meetings with elected officials, shouting obscene comparisons [...]
August 17, 2009 – 12:18 pm
Just tell me what to think: The White House seems to be in bizarro mode on health care. Or at the very least, somebody’s BlackBerry didn’t sync right the last time a memo went out. Officials are all over the place about whether the public option — a system in which the government would offer [...]
August 10, 2009 – 12:07 pm
Son of a bitch: Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo’s U.S. Senate campaign continues to flog the ridiculous non-story of Attorney General Jack Conway’s “profane” outburst at Fancy Farm two weekends ago, wherein the handsome-devil AG referred to himself (in the worst feigned hillbilly accent I’ve ever heard) as “one tough son of a bitch.” Collective gasp, [...]
