Sounds safe to us! | Absurd
Maybe coming to a highway near you Truck Trains! Thats right, the state Senate passed a bill that would allow truck platooning, or trucks traveling 250 feet apart, driving in sync with electronically-coordinated speeds through wireless communication. SB 116 is in the House now.
Not the onion | Thorn
Louisville will receive a $100,000 grant to test using police drones to race to locations where already-installed microphones detect gunshots. When our city is confronted with a major challenge, we respond in a big way, Mayor Greg Fischer said. Said RoboCop: Dead or alive, youre coming with me! Next up Cruise missiles, or maybe Tom Cruise missiles... because Kentucky.
CJ has broken the news | Absurd
Breaking News, screamed the red banner across the top of Courier Journals website. Was it another pronouncement from Gov. Matt Oblivious Bevin about prayer and rocks? Another cringe-worthy peccadillo by tRump? It was much more important No more crossing the river to find Yuengling. Heres where you can finally buy the beer in Kentucky. Of course, CJ failed to mention Yuengling endorsed tRump.
Good sports | Rose
...But, then, the same paper produced a masterful package of stories Sunday on nepotism involving disgraced, former Athletic Director Tom Jurich and current football coach Bobby Petrino. And then it explored how to fix the corrupt NCAA: the removal of the one-and-done system as it currently exists; deregulating and incentivizing academics; and amateur athletes being able to profit from their abilities.
The art of resisting | Rose
In another act of highway hacking, resisters targeted a gun show billboard by festooning it with 17 crosses with the names and ages of students killed in Florida, CJ said. The billboard on southbound I-65 is just the latest point of protest. One on I-65 near Fern Valley Road was tagged with Kill the NRA. And Resist 45 has been painted on billboards around town.