What’s the deal with attacking reporters for, you know, REPORTING?
We find it absolutely laughable that long-time Louisville attorney Mike Lemke would continue to attack the Courier-Journal for reporting information it was given in the case of the woman who murdered her two children.
Seriously, what the hell is the deal? What’s with this rash of […]

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Must be a full moon because the gay-haters are out in full force.
The Family Foundation of Kentucky is attacking six UK professors for ever having anything to do with the gays, abortion or anything not hateful.
A conservative political group has singled out six University of Kentucky professors in fliers because their teaching, research and outside […]

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Irony Meter Alert!
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals just bought 80 shares of stock in Churchill Downs and they’re gonna attend the track’s annual meeting tomorrow.
According to a press release, PETA members will hold signs showing Eight Belles lying dead or whatever after breaking her legs during the Kentucky Derby. You’ll recall that […]

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Public Citizen just announced that the blog ban/censorship case against the Commonwealth has been settled:
WASHINGTON, DC - June 17 - The Commonwealth of Kentucky has settled a lawsuit with a political blogger whose critical comments of then-Gov. Ernie Fletcher resulted in the state “blacklisting” all blogs on state-owned computers.
Public Citizen’s client Mark Nickolas, author of […]

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Thanks to a wonderful reader comment on a thread about state vehicle usage, we’ve got an idea.
I’ve read posts where people are complaining about state employees being parked at Wal-Mart or a restaurant during off hours or with speeding state vehicles flying down the interstate.
Could you create a post or link where people could send […]

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We don’t have a posted or concrete comment policy at Page One or The ‘Ville Voice, really, as it’s not necessary. We only remove comments when they’re unwarranted personal attacks, spam or are just beyond ridiculous.
But we have to address something.
I have recently been deleting comments that refer to the perceived sexual orientation of […]

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Back in March Greg Fischer’s campaign manager, A.J. Carrillo, lied to us/misled us about the departure of media consultant John Lapp. We reported, rightly so, that Pat Crowley had employed sloppy journalism in his story about the departure:
Dem U.S. Senate candidate Greg Fischer has been dumped by his Washington-based consultants, McMahon Squire Lapp and […]

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Everyone is pissed that the Beshear Misadministration is acting all open and happy and such. But the crew is really more restrictive than Ernie Fletcher or whatever. At least everyone can spend all day every day reading Page One. [Ralph Long]
Are you black or female? Probably not if you’re an elected official […]

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PolWatchers, Mark Hebert, et al have jumped on the journo bandwagon about Governor Steve Beshear and the Commonwealth Office of Technology putting an end to BloggerGate, which we were the first to break news of yesterday.
From PolWatchers:
State ends block on blogs
Reversing a policy set by former Gov. Ernie Fletcher, state-owned computers used by executive branch […]

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Here’s why we didn’t know who Sheila Berman is: like zero lawyers in Louisville know who she is. 540 (72.6%) our of 744 total voted that they “Don’t Know” Berman. Hopefully she can change that with a little politicking. [Hebert]
David Adams of Kentucky Progress calls on the governor and COT to […]

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