Tag Archives: Lunchbox

Lunchbox: Jolly Bisphenol Giant

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.
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Lunchbox: Death battle over between life enhancers

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 [...]

Lunchbox: Blown deadline edition

Bad connection: We arrived at LEO HQ this morning to a dead Internet line, which is such fun when a big part of your gig is email-, web- and blog-related. We wrung hands while our provider (not Insight) told us they’d send someone ’round this afternoon sometime. Yeah, thanks. So we bailed for a while [...]

Lunchbox: Bunning Gone Wild! edition

Cordish backs out: No, the Baltimore-based developer has not backed out of plans for Center City, but perhaps this is a precursor. Cordish has dropped plans to redevelop a space in the Starks Building, where there was talk of installing a McCormick & Schmick’s. (Aside: Mmm.) Rick’s analysis over at Ville Voice is good: We [...]

Lunchbox: Do you have ‘Mountain Dew mouth’? edition

No Fairness: State Sen. Gary Tapp, R-Shelbyville (circa 1925), has proposed SB 68, which would limit those who could adopt or provide caregiver services to children in Kentucky to only married couples. Naturally, the legislation is targeted toward prohibiting gays and lesbians from adopting kids — because, you know, Kentucky hasn’t asserted its hate of [...]

Lunchbox: Do Over

Feds to Felner: Federal prosecutors filed a motion in the case against Robert Felner saying they did not hold the former University of Louisville education dean against his will or deny him legal counsel during a seven-hour interview with investigators. Felner and former associate Thomas Schroeder face charges of fraudulently obtaining nearly $2.3 million in [...]