Category Archives: News

(Author’s note: I contributed to this Kickstarter and appeared briefly in the Kickstarter video for Louisville.AM. Tom Cottingham, Insider Louisville’s CEO, and I appeared on an episode of Vonderheide’s podcast, “Startup.”) The news came on Oaks Day. In the wake of SummitMedia acquiring four Cox Media Louisville radio stations, Dan Vonderheide, Digital Sales Manager at [...]

Festival season brings out the musicians in Louisville. With several outdoor festivals from which to choose, I pick one in a gorgeous Lousville neighborhood, a singer-songwriter returns from Europe to begin her southern tour, a promising new songwriter from NYC makes his Louisville debut, and bluegrass under the trees. Consider these options for your weekend [...]

It was  precedent versus a neighborhood aversion to scale, and the neighborhood won. The Louisville Metro Planning commission has voted to deny developer Kevin Cogan’s plan to build the 17-story Willow Grande luxury apartment tower in the heart of the Cherokee Triangle. Cogan, president of Jefferson Development Group, asked the commission to rezone The Bordeaux [...]

Bourbon has a woman problem. Or at least bourbon marketing does. It may be getting better, but outside the Commonwealth, bourbon is (stereotypically) considered a “man’s drink.” If you’re a woman and you order a Woodford on the rocks in Connecticut or Florida, you have better than a 50% chance of the bartender making some [...]

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, [...]

By Stephan Gohmann, Bluegrass Institute Out of the 50 U.S. states and 10 Canadian provinces, Kentucky ranks No. 56 in economic freedom, as measured by the Frasier Institute’s Economic Freedom of North America Index. Among Kentucky’s surrounding states, only West Virginia ranks lower. The index is a measurement of the size of government, amount of taxation and [...]

The Facebook page for “We’re Cool” was launched on May 10 and already has 316 likes. Its description is charmingly modest: We’re Cool was created in 2013 by Richard Hudgins of Louisville, Kentucky. No one special. Just a guy who was fed up with people that treated others poorly. No one special? We’d beg to [...]

Stories are everywhere about the healthy improvement in the Louisville real estate scene — here at Insider Louisville and other sources. Home sales up 21 percent?!? Are you kidding me? But there’s a potential monkey wrench about to stall this smooth-running machine. Inventory. The inventory of Louisville homes for sale is dwindling. This generally helps home [...]

Everyone is abuzz lately about New Albany; about how the river town has revived while retaining its small town feel, and about local heroes Houndmouth’s rise to stardom. This week,  city officials announced  plans for a Friday night summer concert series at its new Bicentennial Park. Mayor Jeff M. Gahan has teamed up withLouisville-based Production [...]