Category Archives: LEO Weekly

Metro gov’t launches 24/7 tip line

September 30, 2009 – 3:20 pm

Metro government will launch a new 24/7 anonymous tip line Oct. 1, enabling citizens and city employees to report suspected fraud, abuse and other unethical activities on the part of Metro employees, contractors or suppliers. The ethics reporting service is completely anonymous.
The city contracted the ethics reporting service with The Network Inc., a technology company [...]

By pbailey | Also posted in Mayor Abramson, Metro Council, Metro Gov't | Comments (0)

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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Hip Hip Hooray

June 29, 2009 – 12:51 pm

What’s that dull thumping noise? Why it’s the sound of LEO Weekly’s editorial staff patting itself on the back. Our little rag won a boatload of awards this week, starting with a whopping 18 accolades — including five for first place — doled out by the Society of Professional Journalists. To top it off, staff [...]

By sgeorge | Also posted in Media | Comments (0)

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 fourth-degree [...]

By sgeorge | Also posted in Crime and punishment, Kentucky, Media, journalism, politics, utter bullshit | Comments (7)

Senate Bill 68 is dead

March 11, 2009 – 12:15 pm

Senate Bill 68 is dead this session, according to this CJ story. The bill, known as “The Child Welfare Adoption Act,” was shepherded by state Sen. Gary Tapp and would’ve prohibited unmarried, cohabiting couples (a euphemism for gays and lesbians) from adopting or fostering children in Kentucky.
Here’s a funny quote from David Edmunds, a Family [...]

By sgeorge | Also posted in LGBT, government | Comments (1)

Market penetration

February 16, 2009 – 2:49 pm

Ben Schneider, our lead editorial designer, was walking downtown today and came upon this, pasted on a LEO streetbox at Fourth and Chestnut streets. It’s by far the finest defilement of the new LEO Weekly logo we’ve seen since we launched it two weeks ago, and it’s inspired us to start a contest: Send us [...]

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New web-only Editor’s Note

December 12, 2008 – 12:33 pm

Hello People, 
In what will probably (given time) reveal itself to be an ill-considered move requiring further feeding of an already-starving beast, we’ve decided to start running a web-only Editor’s Note every Friday afternoon, for your weekend enjoyment. This web exclusive will be anything from brief, outtake-style thoughts that may or may not relate to the [...]

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LEO’s 2008 Election Day coverage

November 3, 2008 – 7:08 pm

What better way to spend your Election Day than here at Fat Lip, LEO Weekly’s news blog, where our team of reporters/partiers will bring you live coverage all day and night from polling places across the Metro, the classy(ish) high-profile candidate soirees downtown, swill-fests where relative degenerates congregate to engage the victory/chug away the pain, [...]

By sgeorge | Also posted in election | Comments (0)

Attack of the chickens

October 10, 2008 – 3:34 pm

On today’s menu for my eating alone in west Louisville story — Killer F@$%ing Chickens. I picked it up from a nearby franchise on 18th & Broadway. I’m sure PETA would be pissed, but I had to delay lunch until 2 p.m. because I was covering the Yarmuth-Northup debate at noon. It was downtown at [...]

By pbailey | Also posted in Louisville, food security | Comments (0)

Ride the center line

October 9, 2008 – 1:43 pm

Yesterday afternoon, as our intrepid team of web designers was putting the last touches on this fancy new website of ours, a few members of the editorial dept. went for a ride downtown. We were hunting for a cover shot of the city for a story coming next week about, well, downtown. Cruising down East [...]

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