Crime

The tragic occurrences of Thursday afternoon in West Louisville have triggered much concern about conditions there and exactly what causes people to start shooting each other there. Even news personnel, in Facebook posts after the event, were expressing thanks that they weren't caught in crossfire and being mentioned for their heroics in covering the...
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Five members of Occupy Louisville were arrested today during a demonstration staged outside of a Chase Bank branch in the Highlands neighborhood of Louisville. LMPD is offering very limited comments as of yet, but there was reportedly a hearing scheduled for 6:00pm this evening. LIVE UPDATES.
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This Can’t Be Good:When a press conference is called for 4 p.m. on a Friday, the news is never good. It’s usually something politicians want to see buried in the media. Today’s 4 p.m. news will come from Mayor Fischer “will report budget reductions to balance the current fiscal year’s budget.” Translation — If...
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I was transfixed as the words and voice of sex offender and murderer Cecil New were aired on WHAS 11 last night. It’s not every day you can wander down the psyche of such a monster and I’ll be damned if I didn’t take in the whole thing. Interviewed last year by the now-retired...
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U of L Hospital Still in Trouble: Another effort to get U of L Hospital some love from the Governor has failed.  Beshear announced today there will be no revised plan to get U of L a piece of the merger pie. That deal was consummated last week between Jewish Hospital and St. Mary’s...
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Thousands of people around the country are receiving phony e-mails from a company claiming to be the Better Business Bureau with notice of a written complaint (see a copy of the e-mail below with the link removed). Charlie Mattingly of the Louisville Better Business Bureau tells me “This is a malicious message that has...
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I don’t imagine you’re working today, or Monday, but at least you’re not paying extra to have the city’s sanitation workers clean up your Christmas junk. Yesterday Metro Government announced that there will be  no overtime for sanitation workers after Christmas. So that stuff might sit there an extra day or two. Good move....
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Pro-Business? More Jobs? Mayor Greg Fischer’s veto of the Metro Council’s fireworks ordinance makes little sense. Fischer, knowing that the Council’s new legislation allowing the sale of bottlerockets and Roman candles to be sold around here would allow new businesses to open, hid behind the idea that the inherent danger was too great. Did...
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No local government organization involves more money and more accusations of mismanagement than the Metropolitan Sewer District. And now Mayor Greg Fischer, in receipt of a scathing audit about MSD business practices, has given director Bud Schardein the boot and is making sweeping changes. Here’s the official release from Metro: Citing significant management problems...
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Jerry Abramson vowed to be the most active Lt. Governor of all time yesterday during inaugural festivities.  He probably will. And it won’t take doing much to make us all forget about that Daniel whatsisname. Still not a Priority: About 3/4 through his second inaugural address last night, in that hokey western Kentucky accent,...
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