FEBRUARY 2025
Louisville Metro
VIDEOS: (1) Reimagine Belvedere, more (2) Long lines to get License (3) Surveillance City
Belvedere Plans Scrutinized
Plan to redesign Belvedere raises questions and concerns | Local opinions
Louisville Economic Development Alliance announces new leader.
At a Friday board meeting, the Louisville Economic Development Alliance (LEDA) named Trevor Pawl as its new CEO... Pawl was the state of Michigan's first chief mobility officer, focusing on the future of transportation in the state. During his tenure, Michigan stitched together 89 public-private partnerships and attracted $487 million in investments.
Read more. | PAWL BIO
Metro Louisville Features
Humana Center Sale Hurdle
“Timing could not be worse” — “Want to see affordable housing!”
Planning and Zoning
TARC teams up with Adposure
The 241,500 SF Chestnut Centre for sale at $7+ million
Twenty percent of JPCS students don't speak English
Jan 23, 2025— Kentucky's public schools have seen a 400% increase over the past 20 years in the number of students who don't speak English — one of the largest increases nationwide. Only Mississippi and South Carolina have also seen such a jump, according to the U.S. Department of Education. | Screenshot: Courier-Journal
For those who leave their home countries and move to Kentucky, 80% come to Louisville. At the end of the last school year, JCPS had nearly 20,000 multilingual students — about 10,000 more students than five years ago.
JCPS SNAPSHOT: 97,000+ students; 150+ schools; $1,700,000,000+ (billion) operating budget; 18,000+ employees; 82 percent graduation rate; one in five non-English speakers
Read more. The NEA has a plan. “As educators, we have accepted the sacred responsibility to protect students.”
Watch for more news.
Kentucky
Rand Paul Explains Distrust of Government
Hedge funds agree to pay Ky Pension Systems $227.5M settlement Read more.
Some state workers oppose Pension Settlement lawsuit Read more.
Louisville Metro Senator David Yates
Supports abortion in cases of rape...BUT Opposes death penalty? My Response:
WHY?
Why can students file a complaint against the for-profit school industry but not the public school system?
Watch for more news.
USA & World
Trump People
VIDEOS: (1) Trump's Border Czar (2) Kash Patel’s Savage Moment 3) AG Pam Bondi
President Trump freezes civil rights cases
Audacy Sale
The FCC granted its approval on September 30 to a restructuring and license transfer that will make a Soros-controlled investment firm the majority shareholder in Audacy, allowing the nation’s second-largest radio company to emerge from bankruptcy.
Pam Bondi threatens action against leakers
Police lives jeopardized
No holds barred, from WEC to BOA, Trump calls ‘em out
Sanctuary States to lose Medicaid for illegal immigrants
Liz Collins Reports
J6ers Class Action Lawsuit
I am one who believes that the events on January 6 were a set-up. Democrats knew that Trump supporters would be flooding D.C., so they withdrew law enforcement, removed physical guardrails, seeded the crowd with provocateurs, trusted the press of people to steer innocents into trouble, and then used a weaponized Justice Department to destroy people who showed up on January 6 and found themselves near the Capitol. That’s why I happen to think the planned $50 billion class action J6 prisoner lawsuit is a good idea to expose the government’s role in J6. Read more.
AP Wire
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned, commuted the prison sentences or vowed to dismiss the cases of all of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, including people convicted of assaulting police officers, using his clemency powers on his first day back in office to undo the massive prosecution of the unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy. Read more.
Weaponized DOJ
Political prisoner first-hand account Watch!.
Fastzone Features- The Way We Are | 2025
