November 6, 2009 – 12:01 pm
Let the voters decide: A Republican state lawmaker has pre-filed a bill that proposes letting Kentucky voters consider a constitutional amendment to legalize slots. Under Georgetown Sen. Damon Thayer’s proposal, the referendum — if approved — would allocate at least $100 million of slots revenue to the state’s struggling horse industry. At this point, however, [...]
November 4, 2009 – 5:12 pm
A little over a week ago, the University of Kentucky and Alliance Coal announced plans to name a new men’s basketball dormitory after a dirty, planet- and culture-killing fossil fuel known as “coal,” sparking campus protests that have elicited virtually no response from the university’s board of trustees and its figurehead, UK President Lee Todd, despite [...]
November 4, 2009 – 4:37 pm
Yup yup: The 21c museum and boutique hotel — recently named the best hotel in these United States — will soon have a sister operation in downtown Cincinnati. From Business First:
The husband and wife team of Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson will open the second 21c hotel in the former Metropole Hotel… [and] will feature [...]
November 4, 2009 – 11:59 am
Safety first: The state is using revenue raised from taxing coal companies and charging permit fees to hire an additional 15 mine safety inspectors and 19 more employees to review permits. Gov. Steve Beshear says the new inspectors will help the state actually perform the number of inspections required by law, and “enhance our nationally [...]
November 3, 2009 – 5:18 pm
The numbers on Congress’ health care reform bill are in, and I can honestly say I’m shocked — in a good way. In what may be the first time in recent memory that Congress hasn’t totally screwed the pooch on a Big Issue, it appears as though Obama’s push to reform our dysfunctional health care [...]
November 3, 2009 – 3:56 pm
In what amounts to a sound argument for taking better care of our service economy’s indentured servants, The New York Times reports that alarming numbers of H1N1-infected wage slaves are reporting to work sick because, well, they can’t really afford to miss a day’s pay in this economy.
When Latisha Carter caught H1N1 from her 6-year-old [...]
November 3, 2009 – 1:07 pm
Greening the fat: University of Louisville eggheads are converting used cafeteria ‘tater grease into fuel for a campus shuttle bus. Speed School students are currently using a 5-percent grease/biodiesel blend, but are hopeful that in the future, the shuttle bus will include a mobile-deepfryer, thus creating the world’s first (and most delicious) perpetual motion machine.
Yet [...]
November 3, 2009 – 10:06 am
More news coming out of Louisville Metro Animal Services’ Manslick Road shelter: Those non-existent heaters we told you about last week were finally replaced after volunteers complained about the situation, which is a good thing.
Most troubling, however, is the following command performance given by MAS spokesperson Jackie Gulbe, whom appears to be either lying or completely unaware of [...]
October 30, 2009 – 12:01 pm
Deal or no deal: Prosecutors have offered a plea deal to the Okolona woman accused of murdering her two children last year. Gail Coontz faces two counts of first-degree murder for allegedly shooting her son Greg, 14, and daughter Nikki, 10. She also is charged with terroristic threatening for allegedly toting a gun to the [...]
October 29, 2009 – 5:12 pm
A civil suit was filed today against ex-Louisville Metro Animal Services Director Dr. Gilles Meloche, interim LMAS director Wayne Zelisky and other employees for violating the fourth and fourteenth amendment rights of two Louisville pet owners.
In the lawsuit (PDF, FYI), plaintiffs Angela and Jim O’Neill charge Meloche, Zelinsky & Co. with illegally seizing two adult purebred American [...]
