Lube up for Bevin | Thorn
Gov. Matt Oblivous Bevin sure likes to call people names. We wonder where he learned that? (tRump.) But while he acts like a schoolyard bully, he has not told us how he intends to pay for his pension fix. Certainly, it means cuts to programs he hates like arts education. Maybe he will overcome the GOP Taxophobia and add a penny to every tube of personal lube… You know, for when we all get…
As it should be… | Rose
Upset over Tom Jurichs ouster, a benefactor withdrew an estimated $6.3 million donation to UofL athletics, leaving more for his other beneficiaries. The UofL School of Music and Norton Childrens Hospital were to get a 30-percent share, but both stand to gain a 45 percent share of a fund that has grown as the stock market has appreciated, The CJ reported.
Cut that gordian traffic knot | Thorn
Who in city government coordinates street closures with events and construction? No one, obvs… A running event and I-65 work bedeviled motorists and bus riders this past weekend. Most affected were the people who had to get to work to serve the people who had the luxury of running around for fun.
Eat fast, recycle, die young | Absurd
The city will begin accepting fast-food containers for recycling. That gives you a sense of how much of this crap we download into our Big Mac holes.
Freddies 220 no more | Thorn
To mourn the closure of Freddies 220, a haiku:
Freddies dark and cool Cheap whiskey, Sinatra vibe Found me there, no more
This article appears in October 25, 2017.