Tag Archives: Jefferson County

Lexington: H1N1 Capital of the Commonwealth

November 10, 2009 – 5:22 pm

Recently, we informed you that WLKY ran a story about how Louisville is the number-one city in these United States for dirtiest internet keyword searches: Because this information is useful. Now we are proud to report that we’ve managed to dodge another auspicious title, this time being the county with the second-most reported swine flu [...]

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Abramson: “Who is this kid?”

June 30, 2009 – 2:56 pm

That was but one of the responses our Mayor had for Jefferson County GOP chairman Brad Cummings, the latter of whom had delivered earlier today a factual, coherent and scathing indictment of the Abramson administration’s (largely) post-merger shenanigans at the party’s headquarters on Muhammad Ali Boulevard. A somewhat nervous — though no less self-assured — [...]

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Unemployment: Jeff. Co. Down, KY Up

June 2, 2009 – 1:46 pm

We wonder if the Mongiardo campaign will interpret the following as an example of Jack Conway’s nefarious “Louisville-bias”:
Year-over-year unemployment rates rose in all 120 Kentucky counties from April 2008 to April 2009, but there also was good news regarding the local economy in statistics released Tuesday by the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training.
The agency, [...]

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