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Is there a cop convention at UofL?
We were taking a stroll through the area this week and saw about 50 bald and burly guys in black and dark brown T-shirts strolling along Third Street on the UofL campus. Kind of looked like a convention of Dean Norrises from “Breaking Bad.” First thought was “is Homeland Security in town this week?,” since…
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Homeland Security targets Louisville
Don’t be surprised if you see a bunch of masked federal goons in black terrorizing people in the Derby City. From the Courier-Journal: Louisville is one of more than 500 “sanctuary jurisdictions” across the U.S. being accused of obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws by the Trump administration. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security published a list of…
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‘You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means’
From the Courier Journal: More than four years after the U.S. Department of Justice launched a wide-ranging investigation into the Louisville Metro Police Department that led to the signing of a police reform consent decree, the federal government is abandoning its reform efforts, calling into question the future of the plan that would add oversight to the…
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Got jobs? If you’re with UPS, you’re going to lose yours.
UPS, Louisville’s fifth largest employer, is cutting 20,000 jobs because of lowering shipments from Amazon. From the Associated Press: UPS is looking to slash about 20,000 jobs and close more than 70 facilities as it drastically reduces the amount of Amazon shipments it handles. The package delivery company said Tuesday that it anticipates making the…
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MAGA mania screws up the Derby
From the Courier Journal: With just nine days until the 151st Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs Inc.has turned heads following an announcement to temporarily halt its previously shared plans for a roughly $1 billion, multi-year project at its Louisville racetrack. In a company earnings call on April 24, Churchill Downs Inc. CEO William “Bill” Carstanjen said the decision to delay…
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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…
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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…
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Parts is parts, or does anybody know how to drive here?
In taking long, extensive walks around the city, the things that jump out at me aren’t the classy Victorian mansions throughout Old Louisville, the scores of blooming trees throughout the city or the new construction around the University of Louisville campus. No, what I see is a lot of this: That’s at the corner of…
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