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A message from Louisville SURJ
Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice has this message for you: It’s happening here. Our Louisville neighbors are being detained by ICE. After playing a game of pick-up soccer with friends. After a routine check in about their status. As they work a job that takes taxes out of their wages.The immigrant and refugee families who have…
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Top Louisville bosses live out of state
This is not encouraging for the future of Louisville business. According to a 2024 Fortune report, 9.5% of CEOs are now considered “super commuters” meaning they live hundreds of miles away from their headquarters and typically fly in to the office a few days a week. The image at the top from Louisville Business First…
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Follow the money if you want to win an election
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair once said: “The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories.” We tend to disagree. The first rule of politics, if you want to understand why politicians do what they do, is “follow the money.” Policy…
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Seem more like he was rented than bought
The congressman for Kentucky’s Third District made an interesting announcement at a recent town hall meeting, according to the CJ: U.S. Rep. Morgan McGarvey will no longer take campaign donations associated with the pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which previously facilitated the spending of tens of thousands of dollars on campaigns by Kentucky’s only…
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WorldFest: Making diversity great again in the Ville
There’s a Labor Day weekend festival in Louisville that’s like a fun vacation abroad. From WDRB: People from all over the world met Saturday in Louisville for the Labor Day weekend tradition of WorldFest and the Parade of Cultures. The parade went down 5th Street as thousands of spectators lined the route. Countries and customs…
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Falling low in higher education
This isn’t something to brag about. From the CJ: Not one Kentucky institution made the Top 100 in Forbes’ List of America’s top colleges this year. Highlighting 500 schools that cultivate successful, high-earning and influential graduates from diverse economic backgrounds, the University of Kentucky secured the 233rd spot on Forbes’ list. Meanwhile, the University of Louisville was ranked further back at…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 10
Are you ready for the country? Entertained in the city. Political activity (or lack thereof) in the state. And worried for the nation. Some of the things we discuss in this podcast. Cicada brood XIV: CBS News White House correspondent freaks out over Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce engagement. Things to see at our new neighbor, Bernheim…
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A flawed list of sports sites
A month ago, we posted on Gannett’s effort to develop a top 10 list of sports attractions in the U.S. Today, the CJ named the winners: The Kentucky Derby Museum ranked highest at No. 2, followed by the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory at No. 4, Churchill Downs at No. 5 and the Muhammad Ali…
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This is how you fight back; Ky. Dems can learn from Illinois
Louisville is stuck with MAGAts’ favorite Democratic mayor and Congress’s least effective Democratic congressman. One has bowed to the whims of the incontinent, senile Orange Taco, while the other hasn’t yet said a word about the GOP’s musing about redrawing congressional maps in Kentucky to eliminate the only Democratic seat. It’s time for them to…
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Ky’s lone democratic U.S. Rep. must get off his ass and fight
I’m less than impressed with the lone Democrat in our state’s congressional delegation, because he’s failed to make any kind of impression on the national stage. His response to this latest bit of GOP scumbaggery is extremely frustrating: Two powerful Kentucky Republicans suggested this week that Kentucky could move to get rid of its only…
