Noise & Notes Podcast: The Kentucky Primary

by Phillip M. Bailey May 20, 2012

Though the Republican presidential race ended long before the May 22 primary, there are still some elections worth watching from the Metro Council to Kentucky’s Fourth Congressional District. Locally, the even-numbered council districts are up, but the special District 1 election has gained the most attention with incumbent Attica Woodson Scott facing four strong challengers. [...]

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Key Senate Primaries Are In Louisville, Northern and Southern Kentucky

by Kenny Colston May 20, 2012

The races to watch in tomorrow’s primaries for General Assembly seats are in Louisville, Northern and Southern Kentucky. In Louisville, four Democrats are vying to replace retiring Democrat Tim Shaughnessy in the 19th district, where no Republicans are running. In the 37th District, former Republican Metro Councilman Doug Hawkins and political activist Chris Thieneman are [...]

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Super PACs May Give Massie Edge in Fourth District Primary

by Kenny Colston May 20, 2012

The most competitive primary in Kentucky will come to an end Tuesday. Seven Republicans are vying to replace retiring incumbent Geoff Davis in the Fourth Congressional District. County judge-executives Gary Moore and Thomas Massie and state representative Alecia Webb-Edgington are considered the frontrunners. Those three have raised the most money and former GOP operative Les [...]

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I’ll Have Another Wins Preakness

by Rick Howlett May 19, 2012

Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another has captured the second jewel of racing’s Triple Crown, overtaking Bodemeister at the finish line to win the 137th Preakness Stakes. I’ll Have Another now has a chance to become the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978. The final leg of the series is the Belmont Stakes [...]

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NY Times Focuses on Rogers’s Continued Pork Spending

by Phillip M. Bailey May 19, 2012

Earmarks spearheaded by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., are catching serious scrutiny in a report by The New York Times for a small military part with a hefty price tag. Observes have commented in the past on how Rogers is known as the “Prince of Pork”, which clashes with the GOP’s austerity movement. [...]

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House, Vaswani Write a Novel in Letters

by Erin Keane May 18, 2012

Meena is an Indian immigrant living in New York City’s Chinatown whose parents are studying for their U.S. citizenship exam. River is a basketball star and the son of an Eastern Kentucky coal miner. When the two kids are paired together in a pen pal program, they learn as much about the similarities between their [...]

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Weekend Arts Overview: Writing Festival, Ryan McGinness, and Samurai

by Brad Yost May 18, 2012

Friday afternoon on Byline, we wrapped up the hour with WFPL’s Arts & Humanities reporter Erin Keane talking about arts in the news and some local arts events to consider this weekend. Literature fans will enjoy the Festival of Writing from Spalding University, as well as a writing collaboration between Silas House and Nela Vaswani. [...]

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Yarmuth Disses Christie Ahead of Kentucky Visit

by Phillip M. Bailey May 18, 2012

Democratic Congressman John Yarmuth is criticizing New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as a “yes man” for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney before his visit to Kentucky. Christie is backing Romney in the fall election over President Barack Obama. He will be the keynote speaker at the Republican Party of Kentucky’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner on [...]

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Assessing the Shootings in West Louisville: Today on Byline

by Brad Yost May 18, 2012

A series of brazen shootings in the streets of West Louisville left three dead and three injured yesterday.  Today, additional shots have been fired roughly 24 hours after the first of the shootings yesterday. On WFPL’s Friday news round up, Byline, our reporters Phillip M. Bailey and Devin Katayama reviewed  the events, taking stock of [...]

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High Ozone Levels Expected This Weekend

by Erica Peterson May 18, 2012

Louisville Metro Government has issued the season’s first air quality alert . The threshold for calling an alert is 101 on the Air Quality Index, which measures air pollution on a scale of 0 to 500. The ozone level is forecasted to be 104 this weekend. APCD spokesman Tom Nord says the weather, rather than [...]

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