Pat Smith
@cityresearch.bsky.social
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cities, data stuff, louisville
4 days ago
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damn they got us on Flock down
maps.deflock.org?lat=38.2172&...
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about 2 months ago
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Nolan Hicks
about 2 months ago
wHy IsN't TrAnSiT SeLf-SuFfiCiEnT
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lol no thanks
3 months ago
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another one down!! thank you Can Opener™
3 months ago
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Birmingham 81
3 months ago
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
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"The Newest Front in America’s Supermarket War Is…Kentucky?"
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3 months ago
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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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https://www.archpaper.com/2026/02/louisville-humana-building-michael-graves-convention-hotel/
4 months ago
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Alissa Walker
4 months ago
Hello to everyone sharing this — I have a newsletter called Torched, it's all about LA and megaevents and Casey Wasserman, and you should *really* subscribe
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Torched
So LA doesn't get burned
https://www.torched.la/
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meet me at the publicly subsidized chain restaurant
4 months ago
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the 'berg walking into Middletown Rooster's after announcing three hypothetical office-to-hotel conversions and a $7 million Mitch-assist for the Belvedere
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4 months ago
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Rooster's is the Louisville Tea Party's Vincenzo's
4 months ago
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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
5 months ago
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David Zipper
5 months ago
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.
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5 months ago
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cumulative domestic migration of each US county, from 2020 to 2024 from John Johnson
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5 months ago
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i love how this piece of journalism presupposes that the reader is driving a car and is absolutely not a pedestrian
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5 months ago
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can we unpack the CJ's use of "unwanted development" in this story?
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5 months ago
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404 Media
6 months ago
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
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Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/
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Piper Hansen
6 months ago
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...
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Ford to lay off 1,600 as it repurposes BlueOval SK for energy storage in KY
Ford Motor Co. is planning to repurpose its battery manufacturing capacity and facilities in Kentucky.
https://www.kentucky.com/news/business/article313723819.html
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rainy day demolition work on the former Urban Government Center.... abandoned by Louisville Metro a decade ago
7 months ago
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tucking this image of the official "2017 Colonial Gardens Redevelopment Groundbreaking hat with the Dan Johnson embroidery signature" here for safekeeping
7 months ago
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they gentrified Bologna sandwiches
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7 months ago
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continuing the Gatlinburgization of a historic neighborhood in Louisville
7 months ago
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The Atlantic
10 months ago
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.
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Memoir of a Mailman
A new book describes the challenges and joys of life as a letter carrier.
https://bit.ly/4mtwoss
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Joe Sonka 😐
10 months ago
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
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"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...
10 months ago
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Sean Willis
11 months ago
oh lord
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JD
11 months ago
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celebrating over a decade of the Fiesta Bonita dinner special at El Tarasco on Preston
11 months ago
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Tessa Duvall
about 1 year ago
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...
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Robin Webb, last Eastern Kentucky Democrat in state Senate, switches parties
“I rarely get the feeling that they’re trying to engage people like me,” Webb previously said of the Democratic party.
https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article307455551.html
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when the spot has options
about 1 year ago
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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...
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Sons of Good Fathers, by Jonathon Sturgeon
On some killings in Kentucky
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/06/sons-of-good-fathers-jonathon-sturgeon-kentucky-killings/
about 1 year ago
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"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. "
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about 1 year ago
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bring back the Louisville Falls Fountain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DtK...
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Falls City: Story of the Louisville Falls Fountain 1994 *RARE* Documentary
YouTube video by mudvayneimn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DtKYZvdHz8
about 1 year ago
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me when the Cards are down any amount of points
about 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
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ahhh yes private equity... a sector famously known for reinvesting in communities
over 1 year ago
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The Overhead Wire
over 1 year ago
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.
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"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
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https://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/news/2025/02/07/smoketown-history-and-growth.html
over 1 year ago
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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. "
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over 1 year ago
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what if we fixed the Barret & Ellison intersection? 🎥 from
@michaelmobility.bsky.social
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over 1 year ago
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nice graphic from Cincinnati Enquirer data journalist Elizabeth B. Kim using data from
@evictionlab.bsky.social
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
over 1 year ago
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its hard out there for a shareholder
over 1 year ago
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tryna catch a bus in Louisville rn
over 1 year ago
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Courier Journal's architecture critic in 1978... 🥴
over 1 year ago
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The Overhead Wire
over 1 year ago
Hey everyone! For those who might not be familiar with our work, The Overhead Wire is a daily newsletter that's been sending since 2006. We go through about 1,500 news items on cities each day and pull out the most interesting ones and tag them by topic and city for our link archive. (1/x)
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cool graphic of neu health grifters from
@nymag.com
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over 1 year ago
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"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?"
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Metro Council blocks apartments in south Louisville for a second time
The proposed development would have included apartments, single-family homes and townhomes.
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2024/12/16/metro-council-denies-rezoning-for-ldg-apartments-in-south-louisville/76885811007/?taid=67602ee028e48e000138b1e9&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
over 1 year ago
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