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Lunchbox: Profanity in the Year of the Ox

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, [...]

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August Heat (a poem by Lynnell Edwards)

August 4, 2009 – 2:33 pm

Now the rain comes sheeting –
the storm’s black shoulder
heaves its worst: crush
of thunder, like the movement
of troops, guns and truck cracking
in their battalions.
Flashes of light strobe
across the low ceiling of clouds.
The wind shoves its chest to
the summer trees and they lift
whipped arms, gather up a silvered
skirt of leaves, resist and twist in embrace.
Hail’s mad [...]

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Are you kidding me, Rain?

August 4, 2009 – 2:14 pm

Yup, it’s upon us again, Ville-ians. The sky is basically black and the rain is dumping down sideways. The Metro HazMat teams that have been vacuuming water from the buildings across Fourth Street are kinda stuck. The National Weather Service says our T-storm warning lasts until 2:30P. Another 15 minutes of fear.

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Pics flooding in

August 4, 2009 – 1:06 pm

Mark Metzger, a local teacher of high school, husband of news editor Sarah Kelley and apparently one hell of a photographer, delivered these a few minutes ago.
Grinstead Drive near Cherokee Parkway:

Cherokee Park:

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The Great Washing of 2009

August 4, 2009 – 12:28 pm

It took me just over two hours to drive to work this morning. My apartment is 3.7 miles from the LEO office. According to MSD, we just took about six inches of rain in 75 minutes, thus setting a record for the most rainfall in such a short period.
I also realized — as did many [...]

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Lunchbox: Trade in your cop car edition

July 27, 2009 – 12:41 pm

Found highway: What’s the best way to get rid of the land most suitable for growing our food and replace it with the relatively anonymous commercial and residential crap of the Great American Suburb? Build a highway! Forty years after I-71 opened up through Oldham County, the “bedroom community” of Louisville-Jefferson County is pulsing with [...]

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Lunchbox: Where art thou, Jerry?

July 20, 2009 – 12:22 pm

Abramson moving on up: Mayor Jerry Abramson announced this morning, in a joint presser with Gov. Steve Beshear, that he will not seek a third and final term as Metro mayor in 2010, instead joining Beshear’s re-election ticket as lieutenant governor in the 2011 race (which evidently has just begun). Read the C-J’s exhaustive coverage [...]

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Mayor: Louisville ‘poorer, blacker and older’ before merger

July 13, 2009 – 1:58 pm

Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson, speaking to the editorial board of the Charleston Gazette of West Virginia last week, explained our reasons for merging thusly:
You have the chance to be, to have growth — significant growth in your suburban areas. And the question becomes, as it was in the old City of Louisville, we were a [...]

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Lunchbox: Unforgivable loans

July 13, 2009 – 11:48 am

None of your business: The Cordish Cos., developer of Fourth Street Live, says you’ve got no right to know how they spent $950,000 in taxpayer money given via a forgivable loan, and the mayor’s office agrees. The loan, which Cordish won’t have to pay back as long as the Sports & Social Club remains open [...]

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Layoffs hit the C-J

July 9, 2009 – 4:57 pm

We’ve had intel pouring in all day about who’s getting laid off at The Courier-Journal. It’s part of parent company Gannett’s latest round of bloodletting, which appears to be taking a major toll on dailies across the country.
Some of those who lost their job at the C-J today, according to multiple sources:
• Arts critic Judith [...]

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