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Friday's Uprageous Stuff
You made it. And next week is a short one, so today's the day to get something accomplished. We've got plenty of entertainment lined up here at Mojo today and in the next week. By the way, note the new "Friends of Mojo" feature in the bottom left of this
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Lawyer Asks for Parking Enfocement Injunction
Louisville attorney David Mour has spent years fighting the city's parking enforcement, and this week filed a motion for "injunctive relief" against the city. He's already filed a lawsuit fighting Metro Government's parking enforcement policies, and he's lined up 11 plaintiffs who have been innocent victims of the city's new
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Yarmuth Officially Has Competition for House Seat
Congressman John Yarmuth now has official competition for next fall's congressional election. Today in Tyler Park in the Highlands, Republican Todd Lally announced he'll be seeking Yarmuth's seat from the Kentucky 3rd, becoming the first opposition candidate to join the race. “People are ready for a course correction,” said Lally,
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King In X-ile
A few months back,when it looked like the field was set for the Mayor's race, it seemed like Metro Councilman Jim King was in the driver's seat. He had/still has the most money. Compared with David Tandy, Greg Fischer and Tyler Allen, his most visible primary opponents, he has higher
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No Shame for the Shu
Monday is the day the University of Louisville plans to rename a building on campus in honor of former president John Shumaker. The new Belknap Research Center will be renamed the Shumaker Research Building in a ceremony at 2 p.m. Sure, Shumaker is being credited for some good things he
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Friday: Gallop on Downtown
Good Night to Buy a Horse: If you've always wanted one of those Gallopaloozahorses for your veranda, shimmy on down to the Seelbach tonight for the big auction event. Or wait until they sell about 50 of them online. off to Boston: Say so long to WHAS-TV's Kyle Draper tonight
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Thursday: Keeping the Lights On
A week from today, you'll be trying to think up something to talk about with your in-laws and complaining about the Lions always being on TV. OK, let's hope that's not true for you. We'll be writing about plenty of options for you in the next week or so. And
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New Site Puts Celebrities on the (Phone) Line
Ever wish you could see the expression on your loved one's face when she hears the voice of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino on the other end of her cell phone, wishing her a happy birthday? I know, right—who hasn't wished that? Enter a new business called CelebritiesCallYou.com. The site,
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Vet Wants to Drum & Hike Across America to Help Military Families
He's not scheduled to start hiking till April, but Troy Yocum already has a long haul ahead of him. Yocum, a former soldier who returned three months ago to Louisville from a deployment in Iraq, wants to hike and drum across America to raise $5 million for military families in
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Winter Storms: Hope We learned Our Lesson
With Old Man Winter bearing down on us, the Kentucky Public Service Commission has some ideas to help the Commonwealth better weather the storms. Of course, these recommendations won't do us much good this year, but they may spur local and state officials to take steps to better prepare for
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PM News: No Smoke @ U of L/UK; More H1N1 Vaccine
Smoke Signals: As Rick Redding reported yesterday, both UK and U of L instituted sweeping tobacco bans today, with UK going so far as to ban any tobacco products anywhere on campus, according to The Courier-Journal. U of L is still allowing smoking in designated areas, but plans to go
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Dirty Little Secrets Part 1
The next speaker was Representative Brent Yonts who spoke in favor of 10 RS BR 114 relating to eliminating private food service at state prisons. Representative Yonts was accompanied by Mr. Daniel Ball, a corrections officer from Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex, Mr. Ron Jackson, a corrections officer from Western Kentucky
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Nov 18, 09
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Dirty Little Secrets Part 2
Representative Flood indicated that she has received information from corrections officers and others that food was the problem at Northpoint and that she understood the link between bad food, high canteen prices, debts, and violence at the institution. Representative Crenshaw observed that the Department had promised a report on the
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Nov 18, 09
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Wednesday: Rainy Day Funds, Flowers and Women
Happy Hump Day. Just in case you're just coming to Mojo to read my stuff, you're missing out on a lot. Just yesterday, we published more than a dozen articles from our growing list of contributors, including two from "Weird Kentucky" book author Jeffrey Scott Holland. Christopher Hall got an
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Nov 18, 09
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Stealing the News
Since we publish our stuff here in the online world, we don't have to worry about some of the issues that are part of the daily life at LEO, the city's alt-weekly. So when a group doesn't like what we publish, we don't have to worry about them going out
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Nov 18, 09
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Another Side of the Battle for Butchertown
It's almost funny, in a way. According to an official with the Metro Air Pollution Control District, much of the discord between JBS/Swift and the Butchertown Neighborhood Association could probably be fixed if the slaughterhouse just made better use of the technology it already has on hand. “Much of Swift's
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Nov 18, 09
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Going Smokeless
Tomorrow could be a big day in the history of smoking. It's the Great American Smokeout, a national movement pushed by the American Heart Association to get you to quit, at least for a day. Around here, U of L officials figured it would be a good day to launch
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Nov 18, 09
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Karen Sypher Back in News, Borel Bobblehead & Cards Tix
Bo-Rail Bo-Bobblehead: Churchill Downs is honoring jockey Calvin 'Bo-Rail” Borel, who swept this year's Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby aboard Rachel Alexandra and Mine That Bird, respectively, with a bobblehead giveaway, autograph session, roast and his very own drink special this weekend. The first 7,500 fans through the gates on
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Nov 18, 09
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Tuesday: Re-Thinking a Think Tank
They're not accepting comments about Adam Walser's controversial WHAS-TV piece on the African-American think tank at the station's website, so feel free to share your opinions here. Re-Thinking This Tank: Obviously, the African-American Think Tank is a sham, a place for Gerome Sutton to pad his bank account with money
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Nov 17, 09
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Metro Announces Another Swine Flu Clinic Saturday
Louisville Metro Public Health and Wellness announced today that it's holding another clinic to immunize people at high-risk from H1N1 flu. Health and Wellness has 3,000 vaccine doses - about evenly split between nasal mist doses and injections - available for the walk-in clinic this Saturday at the Urban Government
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Nov 17, 09
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