Category Archives: journalism

Questions From The Cutting Room Floor: We Love You, Jerry

February 3, 2010 – 4:44 pm

In this week’s issue of LEO Weekly, you can read Editor Sarah Kelley’s fantastic interview with Metro Louisville’s outgoing “Mayor for Life” Jerry Abramson. However, because I and fellow staff writer Phillip M. Bailey lack the journalistic integrity of Ms. Kelley, we’ve decided to offer the following “alternative” questions that were left out of the [...]

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WHAS radio host Francene Cucinello dies at 43

January 15, 2010 – 5:12 pm

WHAS-Radio personality and LEO Weekly columnist Francene Cucinello has died, the station announced Friday afternoon. The morning talk radio host entered the hospital Monday following an apparent heart attack. She died at Norton Hospital on Friday. She was 43. In July 2008, LEO ran a cover story on Cucinello, who hosted the popular “Francene Show” [...]

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Lunchbox: Where have all the pill poppers gone?

November 9, 2009 – 12:32 pm

Walk tall: Make sure to look both ways before you cross that street, Louisville. Our city is the seventh-most dangerous for pedestrians, according to a new study by the group Transportation for America. It’s partly because of our suburb boom post-WWII, and (I’m just guessing here, based on my own anecdotal info) partly because a [...]

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Meador files charges against Republican assailant

May 13, 2009 – 4:54 pm

Jonathan Meador, the freelance reporter who was assaulted by a low-level Republican activist while on assignment for LEO Weekly covering the party’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner Saturday in Louisville, has filed criminal charges against his assailant. Meador and an attorney for LEO met with two Jefferson County prosecutors this afternoon, and will pursue charges of [...]

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A House Divided (& Then Some)

May 11, 2009 – 5:52 pm

Although I’d rather let the video speak for itself, a few primers are necessary: (1) I was attending the GOP’s Lincoln Day dinner, held at The Galt House’s Grand Ballroom A, assigned to cover the ensuing hilarity of Sens. Jim Bunning and Mitch McConnell breathing the same local air. (2) While attempting (1), I was [...]

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Giving Up The Ghost

March 30, 2009 – 3:56 pm

First discovered by the fine folks over at PageOne, I think this bears being lifted and transplanted here if only to catch a raw and horrifying glimpse into the journalistic minds of Mssrs. Mark “Halloween Jack Nicholson Mask” Hebert and Alan “Gotcha!” Cutler: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aflzNDRs3Z8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Suck on it, Geraldo!

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Yet More Layoffs…

March 23, 2009 – 1:35 pm

That’s the word at the Lexington Herald-Leader, which has just announced today that it will purge another 15% of its workforce — as part of the overarching onslaught of McClatchy-sanctioned cuts — which brings the grand total of its cut workforce to 476%. I wonder if the atmosphere in their offices (or for that matter [...]

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As we lay dying?

March 4, 2009 – 12:32 pm

With apologies to William Faulkner, we must ask: Are alt-weeklies dying, too? Funny transposition to read about the death of alts in a daily.

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Lunchbox: Leadership wanted

December 4, 2008 – 12:01 pm

M.C. hammers: At last night’s Budget Committee meeting, Metro Council Republicans criticized the mayor for not giving the legislative body a larger role in finding ways to fix a $20 million hole in the city’s budget. Words like “contempt,” “fumbling” and “impulsive” were thrown around. It’s true the mayor’s office doesn’t go out of its [...]

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Lunchbox: G.I. who?

November 11, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Playing in Poop: Boy it got ugly in Southwest Louisville last night. Nearly 200 residents came out to give MSD executive director Bud Schardein an earful. The issue is the new drainage system in Metro Louisville, which many in the southwest believe sewage from the East End will be dumped in their part of the city. The sewer [...]

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