Remember Karen Sypher? She was charged today with the extortion of Rick Pitino to the tune of $10 million and with lying to the Feds. Just wait til you hear what she’s accusing Pitino of. It’ll blow your mind and you’ll pee yourself laughing. The judge ordered her to stay quiet. We give her all [...]

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Three days ago we told you about the University of Louisville’s response to the alleged degree fraud scandal involving John Deasy. Since our story was published we’ve spoken with about a dozen faculty and other in-the-know types at UofL. And we’ve read and re-read the joint statement released by President Jim Ramsey and Provost Shirley [...]

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This week Governor Steve Beshear and First Lady Jane Beshear discuss their Derby Celebration:

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He told us he was during the evening of election day 2008. And after his appearance with Gill Holland at the Green Building to announce a sustainable redevelopment ordinance, it seems more and more like Tandy is stepping up to take Jerry Abramson’s job. In an effort to encourage the “green” redevelopment of Louisville neighborhoods, [...]

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Hear hear through the grapevine that Adam Edelen, Chuck Geveden, Jeff Belcher and others from Governor Steve Beshear’s office were guests of Bruton Smith at the NASCAR race in Bristol. Smith owns a pretty major skybox on millionaire’s row. Mr. Smith, you’ll recall, also happens to own the Kentucky Speedway, which is in the throes [...]

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We’ve got a ton of meetings scheduled through lunch, so it may be a little slow until then. All right for jam-packed Fridays! Hope everyone is out enjoying our beautiful Commonwealth today. The high today in the River City is allegedly going to be 82! Here’s a picture of Steven Megerle, one of the alleged [...]

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This has got to be the most beautiful day the Commonwealth has seen in a year. Get outside and enjoy it if you can. Visit a state park, walk down your street or driveway or hop down to the waterfront for the balloon glimmer if you’re in Louisville. Today the Courier-Journal published to letters to [...]

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We’ve been focusing quite a bit on the superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools the past few months. Yesterday we told you about his fancy appearance of impropriety with the Center for Applied Special Technologies. And today there’s another. At the April 13th meeting of the JCPS Board of Education meeting (the agenda notes and [...]

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Attorney General Jack Conway’s Office of Special Prosecutions just announced the indictment of three people stemming from unlawful campaign practices in the 2008 election for the Covington City Commission. Read all about the anti-gay mailers here. How bout them apples? Told you it’d happen. Jerry Bamberger, 66 Steven Megerle, 29 and Craig Johnson, 44 Each [...]

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And it’s why LEO Weekly should keep her, forever. From her rant about the hilarious perils of Facebook: Honestly, one of the only reasons I “accept” some frienemies is to find out which of those bitches got fat or looks our age. As for the old boyfriends, while some do spark a sweet sense of [...]

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