
Let the voters decide: A Republican state lawmaker has pre-filed a bill that proposes letting Kentucky voters consider a constitutional amendment to legalize slots. Under Georgetown Sen...

Ahh, November sweeps: That salacious, pre-Christmas season when major networks unleash their most sensational “news” stories to grab the attention of ‘Merica’s lowest commondenominators sobigger advertising dividends will be paid. In the case of WLKY, we’ve got internet porn searches. Specific...

Kentucky may become the new home of a Harley-Davidson manufacturing plant. According to The Courier-Journal, the flailing chopper-maker is considering relocating a 2,500 employee Pennsylvania facility to the greener, cheaper pastures of the Commonwealth...

LEO Weekly Monsters of Folk pics, GWAR extended interview, Burn To Shine on Music ’Cast now at Bluegrass Catastrophe.
Source: bluecat.leoweekly.com
GWAR is a band in the same way that John Wayne Gacy was a party clown. They have their ulterior motives, one of which is the no-holds-barred satire of their stage show. It is something that is actually bawdy, obscene and in your face, not some elevated humor trying to hearken back to Swift. ...

What we audit do: The Metro Council’s Government Accountability Committee unanimously approved the “open books” ordinance, a city bill sponsored by Councilman Jim King, D-10, and Kelly Downard, R-16, which would force companies receiving city tax dollars to make their expenditures public. The ...

Safety first: The state is using revenue raised from taxing coal companies and charging permit fees to hire an additional 15 mine safety inspectors and 19 more employees to review permits. Gov...

A little over a week ago, the University of Kentucky and Alliance Coal announced plans to name a new men’s basketball dormitory after a dirty, planet- and culture-killing fossil fuel known as “coal,” sparking campus protests that haveelicited virtually no response from the university’s board o...

Yup yup: The 21c museum and boutique hotel — recently named the best hotel in these United States — will soon have a sister operation in downtown Cincinnati. Fr...

More news coming out of Louisville Metro Animal Services’ Manslick Road shelter: Those non-existentheaters we told you about last week were finally replaced after volunteers complained about the situation, which is a good thing. ...

Greening the fat: University of Louisville eggheads are converting used cafeteria ‘tater grease into fuel for a campus shuttle bus. ...

So here we have Louisiana Senator David Vitter being asked by a consituent about Vitter’s “no” vote on an anti-rape clause in a defense appropriations bill that passed, 68-30, last month. The ...

Militias?!?!: Oh god. Chris Kenning’s wonderful story in Sunday’s CJ about the uptick in Kentucky militias — a reaction to the crap-ass economy and the election of President Obama — left us unsettled and a little afraid, with echoes of Waco playing in our heads. Read it. Dog da...

Deal or no deal: Prosecutors have offered a plea deal to the Okolona woman accused of murdering her two children last year. Gail Coontz faces two counts of first-degree murder for allegedly shooting her son Greg, 14, and daughter Nikki, 10...











