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 [...]
The Louisville Digital Association has serious connections … serious enough to bring together major policy makers for a big event Wednesday night, May 22. Louisville social-media pioneer and LDA co-founder Jason Falls will return to the LDA podium to gavel a meeting designed to answer the question, “What does Louisville need more of in tech [...]
Welcome to the May 20 edition of the top-secret, always confidential Monday Business Briefing. This is your private business intelligence briefing, with Insider Louisville staff and contributors vetting tips collected during the past few days and hours. A few of which are NOT double-verified as with our daily reporting. This is the news about business [...]
We’ve been saving this for after the spring tornado season in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. Past the mid-May point, we think we’re home clear. (Knock on wood.) Because this infographic from AccuWeather.com., while fascinating, is pretty scary. It brings back memories of March, 2012, when several small towns in the region were destroyed by a [...]
Who knew Louisville is the buckle in Tibetan Buddhist Belt? If you’re thinking that you might just go last-minute to see the Dalai Lama, you’re in for wait. We follow musician Ben Sollee on Twitter. Ben just posted a photo on Instagram of the line outside KFC Yum! Center waiting to see His Holiness, and [...]
We like to read what national media are saying about our city because, really, we’re reading about ourselves, right? Truthfully, we don’t read National Journal as much as we should because the sister magazine of The Atlantic is more focused on issues inside the Beltway such as national security. But this is cool. National Journal [...]
St. Francis School in Goshen, about 20 miles east of downtown Louisville, is offering a huge variety of summer camps, many of which take advantage of the private school’s bucolic Oldham County setting. Here’s the full schedule by starting dates. Camp Wyvern Goshen Campus JK through 8th grade MONDAY, JUNE 10 • Outdoor Adventure Camp [...]
Former Brown-Forman exec Dave Dafoe, who founded Flavorman all those years ago, has yet another hit on his hands. The New York Times has a post on Defoe’s relatively new Distilled Spirits Epicenter and its Moonshine University. IL writes about DSE about every other day. But to the reporter’s credit, the Times post drives home [...]
WSJ blog: Sinatra still sells Jack Daniel’s from beyond the grave
As always, the WSJ has some pithy prose today about one of Louisville’s important companies. Today, it’s 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 [...]