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 [...]
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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 [...]
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In a state rife with systemic corruption, Richie Farmer is the best Adam Edelen can do? I’ll give credit to Edelen, our pretty boy/ intellectually challenged aspiring gubernatorial candidate: He picked the right patsy on which to build his campaign cred. The Richie Farmer saga is a uniquely Kentucky story. Farmer was a star basketball player from [...]
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The Wall Street Journal (our favorite news site despite its Rupert Murdoch, to the right of Attilah the Hun editorial bias) has a “but for the grace of God goes Louisville” story today about Cordish Companies’ adventures in Kansas City. In “Urban Center is a Budget Hole,” WSJ reporter Eliot Brown dissects how KC city [...]
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If you want to inflict a suspect idea on an unsuspecting public, label it “an initiative.” Under the rubric of initiative, Jefferson County Public Schools suddenly has a whole new level of bureaucracy. There used to be only three assistant superintendents – one each for elementary schools, middle schools and high schools. Now, your kids are [...]
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Editor’s note: This post was updated at 3:30 p.m. with a correction. Legal reporter Andrew Wolfson is not leaving the Courier-Journal. From Wolfson: Greetings. As I mentioned on your contact form, rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated. I never applied for early retirement and actually never even considered applying for early retirement. So I am [...]
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Winning at basketball is pretty simple. You round up five guys a little taller, a little faster and a little more coordinated than the opposing five. In the process of winning, you fill vast arenas with fans who spend with reckless abandon on beer, nachos and apparel emblazoned with snarling wildcats or cocky cardinals. Then [...]
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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 [...]
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