Category Archives: Opinion

The Kentucky Derby is not broken, but a few things that could stand to be fixed. • The post position draw. • The lack of crucial, easily acquired handicapping information. • The pointlessly diverse rainbow of kindergarten colors used on the horses’ saddle cloths. The Derby is a great race and a greater spectacle. Here [...]

(Author’s Disclaimer: I’m usually the cheerleader at Insider Louisville, celebrating all that is wonderful and exciting about Derby City. But it’s Derby week, and I have a sinus infection and a double-ear infection. It’s lousy being sidelined during the most festive week in the city– and I’m cranky as all get out. I apologize for [...]

After parking your car in some guy’s back yard and walking a mile from his yard to the gates of Churchill Downs in high heels (and likely, with this forecast, in the rain), the last thing you want to discover is that you’ve lugged a prohibited item all that way. You’ll either have to surrender [...]

(Editor’s note: Realtor/preservationist Deborah Stewart plans to present these remarks at tonight’s Louisville Metro Planning Commission hearing. The hearing over the proposed 17-story Willow Grande condo tower is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Douglass Community Center, 2305 Douglass Blvd. Insider Louisville is posting this opinion post as an opposing viewpoint to our April 20 post.) [...]

Insider Louisville has had more than one post lately about the dire downtown office vacancy situation, with thousands of jobs moving to the suburbs in what’s looking increasingly like a repeat of the 1980s. Yesterday, Metro Mayor Greg Fisher announced he’s running for re-election. In his email to supporters, Fischer took credit – mostly deservedly [...]

All we wanted to do was get to Indiana, right? But the price for crossing the Ohio River – largely unbeknownst to the public –  is that we’ve ended up in the middle of a multi-billion dollar experiment. Bridges Authority officials have not exactly gone out of their way to embrace public scrutiny of the [...]

(Editor’s note: This was originally posted on the Social Media Explorer website. It’s reposted here with the permission of the author.) In the wake of tragedy, the Internet and social media sites can be the most precious resources people can have. But they can also be the most dangerous. There’s not a trained journalist in [...]

By Prof. Manning Warren As most actual and would-be entrepreneurs already know, Congress passed President Obama’s JOBS Act during last year’s election cycle. One of its major provisions established a new exemption from the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s registration for crowdfunded securities. In theory, start-ups will now be able to raise up to [...]

This post falls under the axiom of “there’s no such thing as a impartial reporter.” I am fortunate enough to live in the Cherokee Triangle, which for my money (and I don’t have much) is one of the greatest urban neighborhoods in the world outside of Passy in Paris and maybe Beyoğlu in Istanbul. Yesterday, I [...]