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Travel tip: Get to SDF early
Back in November, the local politicos did a typical pretend shovel event to tout a $45 million Muhammad Ali Airport security expansion. Here’s how the local paper put it: The biggest change in more than 35 years to the terminal at Louisville’s main airport kicked off this week, set to increase security screening capacity by…
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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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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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Film critique: Remember when assholes were cool?
This clip showed up in my YouTube feed yesterday: This was totally cool when I first saw “Bullitt” when it came out in 1968: cool guy, cool car, super cool chase. Now that I’m old with children and grandchildren, it hits me: What the hell was the city of San Francisco thinking when it allowed…
