Thursday, May 17
The transitional periods in American society are always the toughest. Agrarian to industrial. Segregated to integrated. The ongoing tumult as we move to a convergent digital media society from an analog/print model. Everyone knows the conventional media are dying, shedding journalists left and right. Digital information delivery is growing, but we haven’t reached the revenue [...]
Just when you thought Kentucky’s Medicaid managed care crisis couldn’t get any crazier, it gets crazier. Coventry Health Care, one of four Medicaid managed care organizations in the state, has notified physicians and pharmacies it will no longer be covering a drug called Suboxone. Which is causing a three-way showdown between the insurer, doctors and pharmacies [...]
For once, being No. 153 is something to brag about. We got an email this morning from Jefferson County Public Schools recapping how U.S. News & World Report has ranked duPont Manual High School No. 1 on its high schools rankings. In Kentucky. Nice, but not exactly like being No. 1 in Connecticut or Massachusetts, which [...]
With the newspapers focused on Richie Farmer’s antics and a Dick Francis-worthy who-done-it killing at Churchill Downs, the departure of former Brandeis School of Law Dean Chen last month got zero coverage outside Insider Louisville. Which figures, because Chen’s story is – you know – important. Why is it important? Because Chen is shaping the national debate [...]
(Editor’s note: This post was updated at 5:05 p.m. on May 8.) Kentucky’s Medicaid managed care meltdown continues. Sources are telling Insider Louisville that Coventry Cares officials put 10 hospitals on notice last Thursday and Friday, threatening to terminate contracts with providers including King’s Daughter Medical Center in Ashland, Ky. and Louisville-based Baptist Healthcare System. [...]
The health care/healthy living blogs are lit up today with the findings from a just-released survey by Humana and Reader’s Digest. The Humana/Reader’s Digest study is a dose of reality at Insider Louisville, where we spend so much time extolling the virtues of Louisville’s growing trend of high-end, farm-to-table restaurants. The reality is, the vast majority [...]
Here’s next week’s news today. When the Louisville Downtown Development Corp. has its big ”Second Annual State of the Downtown: Public Perceptions and Economic Realities“ powwow next Tuesday night, they will have two big announcements, sources say. The first is a new Downtown Commercial Loan Fund, new financing for companies opening downtown. (More as we know more about [...]
Curtis Morrison investigates: American Legislative Exchange Council owns Kentucky legislature
Until Trayvon Martin was killed, the American Legislative Exchange Council was just another corporately funded covert partisan group, quietly and covertly trying to reshape America state by state from within through the legislative process. Though ALEC, based in Washington, DC, is conservative, there are liberal counterparts. All try to fly below the radar as they [...]