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 [...]
October 15, 2009 – 12:01 pm
Cut list: Despite the optimistic economic forecast nationally, Mayor Jerry Abramson says the first quarter is not looking good and more cuts to the budget are likely. After last year’s slash and burn, we are wondering what might be on this year’s cut list and whether the mayor spoke too soon when he canceled the [...]
October 13, 2009 – 12:05 pm
Playing the dozens: After announcing that the Louisville African-American Think Tank will be hosting monthly political forums in west Louisville that will focus on the mayoral race, the Rev. Gerome Sutton made it a point to tell The Courier-Journal, “The West End does not know (Metro Councilman) David Tandy.” One prominent Tandy supporter has taken [...]
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 [...]
