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Keeping score: Louisville baseball advances in NCAA tourney
From the Courier Journal: NASHVILLE — A small contingent of Louisville baseball fans along the right-field line at Hawkins Field provided the only red in a ballpark dominated by Vanderbilt’s home fans. It was after midnight back at home, but they stayed long enough to see right-handed pitcher Jake Schweitzer lead the second-seeded Cardinals to a 3-2 win over top-seeded Vanderbilt on Saturday…
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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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Street smart? Does anyone see the problem here?
From the Courier Journal: A concerted effort to convert Louisville’s one-way streets into two-ways has seen progress with new construction in the spring of 2025, and work is expected to continue over the next few years with a number of other projects to come. Contractors have so far striped yellow lines down the center of multiple roads…
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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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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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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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UofL agrees to kiss MAGA ass
From the Courier Journal: University of Louisville officials have developed a plan to comply with a new state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at public universities, President Gerry Bradley said in an email sent to students, staff and faculty Wednesday. UofL, along with all other public universities across Kentucky, are required comply with House Bill 4 by…
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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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