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JCPS closures harm Black kids the most (as always)
There’s a budgetary problem in Jefferson County Public Schools that, of course, has a negative impact on minority students. According to Louisville Public Media: At the end of the year, JCPS plans to close King [Elementary] and move its students to Maupin Elementary, three miles south in Parkland. It’s part of a proposal to close and…
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Bluegrass ballots: Who’s in?
An interesting development in today’s CJ: Former Kentucky State Representative and U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker (pictured above) is considering another Senate run in 2026, according to a Nov. 26 social media post. In the Facebook post, Booker acknowledged calls for him to run for the Senate seat that U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, a Republican who was…
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Sundown, you better take care
I’m visiting part of the Acela corridor this Thanksgiving week, seeing relatives between the nation’s capital and the Big Apple. During one visit, a discussion on Sundown Towns was an eye opener. What’s a Sundown Town? The History and Social Justice website says: A sundown town is not just a place where something racist happened. It is…
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Why do people vote against their own interests? Racism.
Here’s a Bluesky post from Mr. Spock. It’s logical. We’ve been on Bluesky as an antidote to Elon Musk’s (you know, the centibillionaire whose net worth rose $15 billion today to $475.5 billion) garbage dump, X. Anyone who has been on X knows it’s a MAGA cesspool filled with far-right feces. And the Guardian tells…
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Cops crashing cars on purpose
I was looking through recent episodes of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” and saw he did a segment that focused on a series I helped edit when I worked at the San Francisco Chronicle: The award-winning Chronicle series looked at the phenomenon of police chases well beyond the borders of the Bay Area and…
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The Joe and Andy show hits the campaign trail
Where’s Kentucky’s governor these days? Former President Joe Biden highlighted harsh economic realities facing American families under President Donald Trump. And Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear pitched a recipe for helping Democrats win in deep-red states. Both headliners for the Nebraska Democrats’ top annual fundraiser Friday rallied a downtown Hilton crowd of 630 people headed into…
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A Black woman looks at the political scene in the Ville
Attica Scott, a former member of the Louisville Metro Council and former Kentucky state rep for the city, has a spot on view of the New York mayoral election (From Facebook): Mamdani’s win and what it means to me as a Black woman in the South As a Black woman living in Louisville, Kentucky, I’m…
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Louisville cops flag immigrants through license plate reader
The whole theme of the George Orwell novel “1984” is “Big Brother Is Watching You.” Louisville cops are taking on the role of Big Brother, as you can see from the photo above (From Louisville Public Media): Law enforcement across the U.S. are sifting through a Louisville Metro Police Department database of vehicles captured by…
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And you thought the Ky. GOP was only sexist
Recently, Kentucky GOP officials showed they were sexist assholes by not immediately dumping a state Senate candidate who described women as ” “promiscuous skanks,” “coddled americunts,” “party whores” and “damn sloots.” There’s no way they can top that, right? The Republican Party of Kentucky says they are investigating a “vile” and “reprehensible” post made by the…
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No Kings rally in Denver
Some of us aren’t in Louisville today for the No Kings in America rally, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t able to find a protest to join. In Denver, the rally at the state capitol had tens of thousands of participants in a peaceful, but spirited, gathering against the evils of the Trump regime. People…
