Made You Look

As always, the WSJ has some pithy prose today about one of Louisville’s important companies. Today, its a blog post in the Speakeasy section. (No, we’d never seen it either). But the post by John Kell gets into how a new Sinatra Select version of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey benefits from the legendary singer’s tacit [...]

While in Chicago last weekend at the National Restaurant Association show, I quickly remembered why that city is one of my favorites: it is a service-minded town. Granted, taxi drivers are not talkative like Chicago cabbies used to be, and I miss that. But at every other point of service contact made in my brief 24-hour [...]

(Author’s Update 5:25 p.m.: As an astute commenter pointed out, Rave Preston Crossing 16 was omitted from this post. As the lawsuit focuses on East Louisville, Preston Crossing is not considered Cinemark encroaching upon monopoly. But numbers were change below to reflect the inclusion of Preston Crossing in Louisville’s movie theater ecosystem.) The movie theater [...]

The American Cancer Society’s 100th anniversary luminaria ceremony has been postponed from tonight until May 30 because of the threat of bad weather. The event which will line the Big Four Bridge with luminaria– candles placed in paper bags which glow like lanterns– decorated with a names of people who have been diagnosed with cancer. [...]

(Editor’s note: The Q&A section of this post was edited for length and continuity.) Kentucky has a $30 billion hole in its budget. In about five years, Kentucky Employees Retirement Systems will run out of money. It’s a problem that could trigger major companies exiting Louisville to Southern Indiana because there’s only one way to [...]

It’s the shift that no one would have believed 20 years ago … the suburbs are rapidly growing poorer. “Confronting Urban Poverty in America,” a new book by Alan Berube and Elizabeth Kneebone, is published by the Brookings Institution, the independent Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Berube and Kneebone have stunning numbers about what used to [...]

“Louisville, Kentucky is the best city in the country for a lot of what we do,” says Ken Daniels, founder of FandomFest, the eight year old comic con and fan festival held annually. “Energy creates more energy.” Louisville is “in the middle of everything,” says Daniels, citing the oft-repeated statistics about how Louisville is within [...]

(Editor’s note: This post is reprinted with permission from OPM Entrepreneurial Services, Inc.‘s email newsletter.) By Kent Oyler, OPM Entrepreneurial Services, Inc. Like so many of us born before 1980, I’ve been striving to fathom the Millennial Generation. I’m referring to those overeducated, good-looking young folks who have taken over my club, not to mention my workplace. [...]

Metro Mayor Greg Fischer released his proposed fiscal year 2013/2014 budget today. We haven’t done a deep dive on the numbers, but we will. At least at first blush, Republicans on the Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Council aren’t emulating their counterparts in the U.S. Congress. Fischer proposed general fund spending of $528 million, an increase of [...]