Tag Archives: Courier-Journal

Courier-Journal lets you know who’s the boss

Please! Refrain from hurling your sharpened pitchfork through your computer monitor: ’tis but only an image of Louisville’s disgustingly rich landed gentry, overly lauded corporate executives, well-to-do business types, self-congratulatory politicos and erstwhile beneficiaries of Bush tax cut extensions. These fleecers of the entity once known as “Louisville’s Economy” have been been compiled into one convenient [...]

Lunchbox: Merged and un-merged

The 7-year merge: Remember when Mayor Jerry Abramson told reporters in West Virginia that before merger the city of Louisville was getting “poorer, blacker and older,”? The gaffe sparked a new debate about the reason behind consolidating city and county governments in 2003. And WFPL’s Gabe Bullard has a two-part piece story on the benefits [...]

The Cougar-Journal

RARRR! The C-J has an excellent AP story out today concerning MILFS; here’s a taste: You can find these moms just about anywhere, in Hollywood, in the White House – probably in the house next door. And now a new reality TV show is on the hunt for the “Hottest Mom in America.” “There’s never [...]

The More You Know…

So the biggest news story to come around since the invention of the teletype, or the polio vaccine, or the razor gator, and The Courier-Journal only runs a tiny blurb? Sad to say it, but the hemorrhaging news industry is taking its toll on my local newspaper’s ability to print meaty AP news stories regarding [...]

The C-J invites staffers to quit

With a round of layoffs looming, The Courier-Journal is inviting employees to quit in exchange for the exact same severance package they’ll be offering the staffers they axe next month. C-J President and Publisher Arnold Garson sent an e-mail to employees this afternoon informing them that voluntary requests for job elimination will be considered, and [...]