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 [...]
If you like summer, picnics and music, chances are you’ve packed into the Sunday night Willow Park concerts. For 2013, you’ll have a dance floor and other improvements to the tune of about $240,000, part of a public/private renovation effort, said Tony Lindauer, founder of the Cherokee Triangle Summer Concert Series. (You may also know Lindauer in [...]
Aaron Marshall calls himself “a Louisville success story.” Though once you read this post, you may see Marshall as the new paradigm for how we define Louisville’s role in the brave new digital world: a place that’s a way station for talent looking for a place to start … but not necessarily to stay. After eight years here, [...]
It’s a cliche, but what a difference a week makes. Last week, the big news was the NBA market assessment commissioned by Greater Louisville Inc. A market study that appeared to put a stake in the heart of the NBA2Louisville movement. Then Monday, with very little media notice, Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development Secretary Larry Hayes gave [...]
Last week, our top-read story was about the controversial evangelical group that conducted a seminar at Gheens Academy, part of Jefferson County Public Schools. Louisville Area Christian Educator Support, or LACES, leased meeting space at Gheens. LACES is affiliated with Southeast Christian Church, and the seminar addressed how evangelicals can act as missionaries in the classroom. Which [...]
This is how they do it in The Valley. More and more, building a startup calls for cross-pollination, says Suzanne Bergmeister, entrepreneur in residence at the University of Louisville. It takes skills across the continuum – from coders to attorneys to accountants to the doctors, let’s say, who have great ideas for a life-sciences company. [...]
So, where exactly is the fine line between proselytizing and free speech? Between the God-given right (so to speak) to spread the revealed word under the U.S. Constitution, and the wall the Founding Fathers placed in that same document between the state and the spiritual realm? If the legal system and the public school systems align properly, it’s [...]
On one side, Kentucky’s Republicans have been lobbying Gov. Steve Beshear not to buckle and expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act. On the other side, health care providers have been lobbying the governor to expand Medicaid, which could add as many as 400,000 people to the 830,000 Kentuckians covered under the federal/state program [...]
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 [...]