damn they got us on Flock down maps.deflock.org?lat=38.2172&...

wHy IsN't TrAnSiT SeLf-SuFfiCiEnT

lol no thanks

another one down!! thank you Can Opener™

Remembering Mark E. Smith on his birthday. Here are The Fall performing Big New Prinz live on Tony Wilson's The Other Side of Midnight in 1988

"The Newest Front in America’s Supermarket War Is…Kentucky?" t.co/1Cp1CVlNb9

in 20+ years of living here I have never once heard anyone call this building the milk carton "Locally it’s known as the 'milk carton' because of the slanted shape prominent on its upper floors." www.archpaper.com/2026/02/loui...

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meet me at the publicly subsidized chain restaurant

the 'berg walking into Middletown Rooster's after announcing three hypothetical office-to-hotel conversions and a $7 million Mitch-assist for the Belvedere

Rooster's is the Louisville Tea Party's Vincenzo's

lol a NIMBY-for-mayor that local media has portrayed as a heroic whistleblower posted this message from a council person to their "government watchdog" FB site and its the most accurate thing on Metro's violation of the fair housing act that's been put on the internet to date

In the last couple years, VanMoof, RadPower, iGO Electric, Dost Bikes, EBC, and Propella have all gone bankrupt. As bad as that sounds, e-bike market consolidation was inevitable after initially torrid growth. Look at all the car companies that existed ~1910. fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/h...

cumulative domestic migration of each US county, from 2020 to 2024 from John Johnson bluebookmke.substack.com/p/where-amer...

i love how this piece of journalism presupposes that the reader is driving a car and is absolutely not a pedestrian

can we unpack the CJ's use of "unwanted development" in this story?

A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.

major job loss incoming at blueoval sk in kentucky as ford announces a pivot to ... using the facilities in glendale for battery energy storage systems instead of ev batteries. 'tis developing, i may have more soon but for now, new from moi: www.kentucky.com/news/busines...

rainy day demolition work on the former Urban Government Center.... abandoned by Louisville Metro a decade ago

tucking this image of the official "2017 Colonial Gardens Redevelopment Groundbreaking hat with the Dan Johnson embroidery signature" here for safekeeping

they gentrified Bologna sandwiches

continuing the Gatlinburgization of a historic neighborhood in Louisville

When Stephen Starring Grant was laid off, he moved home and spent a year as a rural postal worker. His memoir is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal, Tyler Austin Harper argues.

My latest here. Notable that less than an hour before this group released their report, legislators touted the awarding of a massive $147 million road paving contract... that only had a single bid. Details in story. #kyga25

"It's on the Louisville postcard. You can't get away from it. It's [in] the backdrop of every newscast, every national piece that's done in Louisville, it can't sit empty. It's a natural redevelopment of hospitality, residential, you could even sell condos in it" www.bizjournals.com/louisville/n...

oh lord

celebrating over a decade of the Fiesta Bonita dinner special at El Tarasco on Preston

The last Kentucky Senate Democrat not from Louisville or Lexington has switched parties, announcing that she's becoming a Republican. “While it’s cliché, it’s true: I didn’t leave the party — the party left me.” www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

when the spot has options

interesting "Letter from Louisville" in this month's 175th anniversary issue of @harpers.bsky.social connecting the Old National bank mass shooting, West End investment, Quintez Brown, and Kentucky's "powerful Daddies" harpers.org/archive/2025...

"Louisville, Kentucky’s pricing of the I-65 bridges has reduced traffic by half on I-65, and lowered total crossings of the Ohio River by 15 percent. "

bring back the Louisville Falls Fountain www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DtK...

me when the Cards are down any amount of points

ahhh yes private equity... a sector famously known for reinvesting in communities

This move by companies to the suburbs is a direct transfer of wealth away from employees and to employers. It makes commutes more expensive and risky, it reduces agglomeration and the ability to job switch, and it pits cities against each other in a property and sales tax race to the bottom.

"Smoketown is the last existing neighborhood in Louisville that was founded by formerly enslaved African Americans just after the Civil War." great piece from Michael L. Jones – Louisville Business First www.bizjournals.com/louisville/n...

from Ward Jolles at WAVE 3 NEWS - "Demo work is beginning over at the old Urban Government Center. Demo company owner tells me they were just granted the demo permit this morning at 10. "

what if we fixed the Barret & Ellison intersection? 🎥 from @michaelmobility.bsky.social

nice graphic from Cincinnati Enquirer data journalist Elizabeth B. Kim using data from @evictionlab.bsky.social www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

its hard out there for a shareholder

tryna catch a bus in Louisville rn

Courier Journal's architecture critic in 1978... 🥴

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cool graphic of neu health grifters from @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

"Why have a planning commission? Why incur the expense of the planning commission? Why have a staff that's trained to look at development to make sure that they fit with all the codes and (regulations)? Why do that if you're going to overturn their decision?" www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...