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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 8
We discuss Amy’s trip to Chautauqua, the betrayal of our sanctuary city, how comedians are challenging authoritarians and things we’ve been watching for entertainment. On Amy’s birthday, we want to share this photo with you. These two hard-working gentlemen are replacing a roof in Old Louisville with a 100 degree heat index and almost 100%…
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Restaurants have to swallow changes in Oaks time
A couple of days ago, we noted that Churchill Downs is changing the start time of the Kentucky Oaks to prime time to appease the network execs at NBC. We also noted that this won’t be good for some Louisville businesses. As Louisville Business First puts it: Derby weekend won’t be the same next year,…
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Japanese conglomerate adds Bluegrass jobs
This looks promising, but why would any foreign company create jobs in the U.S. when ICE goons are running around grabbing people off the streets and sending them off to Alligator Auschwitz? (From Louisville Business First): A multinational Japanese conglomerate will create more than 200 new jobs in Kentucky as it cuts the ribbon on…
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Who is wealthy in Kentucky?
There’s a lot of talk about how the MAGA-backed Big Bullshit Bill is going to do a reverse Robin Hood and rob from the poor to give to the rich. But who exactly in the Bluegrass State fits into the rich category? From Finance Band: Every year since 2017, Charles Schwab has conducted its Modern…
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Lipstick on a pig: The BBB is big, but it ain’t beautiful
The fact that major mainstream media outlets keep referring to the MAGA infected, billionaire backed, Republican excremental legislation as “The Big Beautiful Bill” should make you want to vomit. Just a reminder: This is what will happen if it is enacted: How can something with these consequences not be called … cruel, murderous, greedy, horrible,…
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History repeats itself. Rerun is worse than the original.
Years ago, in another life, I referred to the attached cartoon to make this point about the Republican Party: I once asked if the worst case scenario was “Will they charge ahead full speed and drive that bus off the cliff and into a river of hungry crocodiles.” Then I modified that to: “Will they…
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Film critique: Mr. DeMille! The Ville is ready for its closeup!
All right: Cameras! Action! (From the CJ): The $70 million redevelopment project set to transform the long vacant Louisville Gardens building downtown into the Louisville Studios at the Gardens, a state-of-the-art sound stage for entertainment production, is one of many signs that Louisville plans to play a starring role in the state’s growing movie and television industry.…
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We’re No. 2. That isn’t good
Big Global Travel ranked the states in America from worst to best, and why Americans don’t want to live in them. The second worse place to live in the United States was: Kentucky Kentucky is the bluegrass state and it’s full of sweeping fields and, well, the home of bluegrass! Yet, it’s a lack of…
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You MAGAts happy, now?
The Big Beautiful Bill is looking pretty ugly. From the Courier Journal: In Kentucky, more than 11,000 jobs and billions of dollars in economic development hang in the balance as Congress considers axing clean energy tax credits approved in the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act, according to an analysis from Rhodium Group and MIT — threatening a key…
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Think housing, medical care and breathable air are human rights? Think again.
When you think things are as bad as they can be for the poor and infirm, the GOP finds new ways to make them worse. From the Herald Leader: Recently, the White House released the Administration’s proposed FY26 federal budget. The suggested cuts to housing and homeless services are dramatic. The proposed budget would slash…
