• Where the real money goes at UofL

    When you look at the paychecks at the University of Louisville, it’s obvious what the school’s priorities are. From the CJ: More than 20,000 people turn to the University of Louisville each year to gain an education. But it’s not the professors or even the university’s president who are paid the most at the Derby…


  • Which came first?

    There’s a story about AI and startups in Louisville Business First, but the analogy used in describing the functionality involved doesn’t quite work: When it comes to Louisville startups, Kela Ivonye has worked with his share. As an Entrepreneur in Residence both at Amplify and at the University of Louisville (at different times), Ivonye has…


  • The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 9

    A look at life in the surveillance state, left vs. right politics and how we can all make a difference: Some of the things we discussed: And some of the videos we referred to. Josh Turek’s U.S. Senate campaign in Iowa: While Mike Flood pisses off Nebraska constituents: And a scene, in which AI highlights…


  • Kentucky GOP protects pedophiles

    This happened: Because this happened: The GOP has a supermajority in the Kentucky House and Senate. The blame falls squarely on Republicans. They call it a state emergency when literally one trans athlete wants to compete in a sport, but when it comes to protecting female students from pedophile coaches, they go a runnin’ at…


  • Do Kentucky colleges stand for anything?

    From the Herald Leader: Officials with the University of Kentucky and the state’s other public universities have not signed an open letter by the American Association of College and Universities challenging some of President Donald Trump’s administration’s higher education policies. Kentucky institutions of “higher education” have already bowed to the MAGA demands of the sycophantic…


  • Some takes on the firing of Kim Schatzel

    Bob hill today on Facebook  A CAREFUL READING OF THE TEA LEAVES now indicates – via a Courier-Journal story – that the University of Louisville Board of Trustees had sufficient evidence to terminate (fire in common parlance) former president Kim Schatzel for cause but gave her the opportunity resign with a $700,000 severance package to…


  • What’s going on at UofL?

    As parents of alumni at the University of Louisville, we tend to be interested in developments at the school. This is the latest: The University of Louisville will pay its new President Gerry Bradley $850,000 annually, according to a copy of his employment contract obtained by The Courier Journal. Bradley agreed to a three-year term, with a…