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 – 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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 – 4:26 pm
Sad news from the war front: Fourteen Americans were killed in separate helicopter crashes in Kabul and Helmand province, making today the deadliest day of our totally non-Soviet 9-year war in Afghanistan since 2005. While the world waits with bated breath over whether President Obama will increase troop levels to relative Vietnam-era proportions, the accident also, for [...]
October 23, 2009 – 1:00 pm
Don’t Tase me bro: The maker of Taser stun guns sent word to law enforcement agencies that use their product to avoid hitting suspects in the chest, partly “to minimize controversy.” Louisville Metro Police will send out a memo to all officers advising of the change,which will encourage officers to aim for the abdomen, legs [...]
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 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 [...]
