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Trading on the popularity of the trademark Keep Louisville Weird marketing campaign, the re-election campaign of U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-3rd, held a rally outside ear X-Tacy on Bardstown Road today, unveiling its new slogan -- "Keep Louisville Yarmuth".
I thought it was an urban legend but it's true. Sarah Palin was once a sports reporter at KTUU, Anchorage's NBC affiliate. Watch below.
Bruce Lunsford's new ad alleges that McConnell tricked a vet into talking smack about Valor Healthcare, a company that provides care for U.S. military veterans. Lunsford has been CEO, chairman and now is a director. We tackled the "truthiness" of campaign advertising in this week's LEO, challenging both candidates in Kentucky’s 3rd District congressional race on their half-truth and misleading messages.
From LEO Weekly:
"Just days after the Yarmuth ad first aired last month, the Northup campaign responded by pointing out that the'" [...]
Another disgusting attack campaign flier has hit Louisville's political scene. This one is aimed at District Court Judge candidate Katie King, daughter of Metro Council President Jim King.
As this Hobbesian decade comes to perhaps its final sad chapter, America facing economic uncertainty seems rather poetic.
The Mayor's office will announce this afternoon grants from the state of between $4 million and $5 million to make further transportation infrastructure improvements, including adding more dedicated bike lanes and paths in Louisville. 
Holding up graphic pictures of scalded chickens and with two of its members crammed into a tank of "bloody" water (Hawaiian Punch), the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) demonstrated outside a Louisville KFC restaurant today to protest what it calls the abusive [...] 
From Rolling Stone:"The problem, as far as our political process is concerned, is that half the [...]
"Decisions by the [...]
Six in 10 voters tell SurveyUSA they are focused [...]
All the way from the Big Apple, art group Creative Time has been hired by Louisville Metro government to develop a master plan for creating more public art in the city.
The campaign headquarters of Democratic U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth was burglarized again last night, this time was considerably more serious than the last.
Surrounded by her husband, fellow Metro Council members and dozens of members of the community, Councilwoman Judith Green, D-1, held a press conference to discuss the need for more initiatives to combat violence in the aftermath of an attack on two of her sons at a [...] 
Just days after the Original Highlands Neighborhood Association voted 8-0 to actively oppose preliminary plans for Wayside Christian Mission to purchase the former home of Mercy Academy on East Broadway, Wayside's chief operating officer Nina Moseley says her agency is still considering buying the $2.7 million [...] 
