
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 [...]
















Chris Tobe: ‘With Kentucky’s pension crisis, regional growth will all be in Southern Indiana’
(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 [...]