JULY 2025
Louisville Metro
VIDEOS: (1) Refurbished center for arts (2) Childcare dilemmas (3) July 17 Protest
Breaking News
Louisville Metro reverses policy on sanctuary city status
Bourbon experiences
Louisville Tourism achieved record 971,702 room nights booked last fiscal year. Downtown Louisville's bourbon experiences increased from zero to 24 since 2013. Gaming billboard glows.
Metro Louisville Features
Operation Take Back America
The Robert F. Kennedy Building in Washington, D.C., home to the headquarters of the United States Department of Justice. Architecture mirrors Gene Snyder Courthouse, site of Hankison federal trials in Louisville.
As of July 1, 2025, Operation Take Back America in Louisville, Kentucky, had already made significant strides in addressing illegal immigration. From March 10 through March 14, 2025, the operation led to the administrative arrest of 81 illegal aliens, with 25 of them facing additional immigration-related criminal charges such as illegal reentry after deportation, illegal possession of firearms, and illegal possession of controlled substances. In the Western District of Kentucky specifically, 53 illegal aliens were administratively arrested, and 18 were criminally charged. Read more.
Churchill Downs to construct $10 million building
Louisville-based Calhoun Construction is the contractor for the project. In an email to Business First, Calhoun President John Hinshaw said the project is related to the Starting Gate upgrades made last year and involves relocating the track’s maintenance functions from the starting gate area to the service yard area. Similar details were also included in the permit. Read more.
Louisville Metro Murders 2025.
As of the end of June 2025, Louisville had recorded 106 murders in 2025, marking a 6% increase compared to the same period in the previous year. This figure reflects the ongoing challenges the city faces in addressing violent crime, bucking a broader national trend of declining homicide rates.
Louisville’s homicide clearance rate is also a significant concern, with the police failing to arrest anyone in roughly half of the murder cases. This has led to frustration among victims' families and highlights systemic issues within the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD), including staffing shortages and resource limitations. Despite increased funding for LMPD and anti-gun violence programs in recent years, the number of homicides in Louisville has remained flat, at best.
UofL Mavericks
TreesLouisville, is launching a new study to aid efforts to combat the city’s severe urban heat island effect.
UofL researchers create world’s largest brain tumor database to speed treatment discovery.
Courier-Journal reader warns public about LGE rate increase
“Being a monopoly owned by Wall Street investors, we cannot trust the electric companies that serve us to do the right thing by their ratepayers. Instead, the incentive LG&E/KU higher-ups have is to serve their shareholders first so that they will receive gains that earned the CEO of PPL Corporation, Vince Sorgi almost $12 million last year. We can and must make it clear to LG&E/KU that we have no interest in subsidizing Silicon Valley's energy needs here.”
Lyndon Police Chief speaks out against effort to defund the police
“… disdain for those in service roles was seen in the 2024 efforts by some council members to defund the police department by more than 450,000, including rescinding the raises previously given to our police officers…”
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Kentucky
Cash for 8 Innovators
Kentucky startups promise high-wage job growth
Cuts
Kentucky public media stations to lose millions
Funding cut to LPM, KET
- U.S. House cancels $9 billion in public broadcasting funding.
- Louisville Public Media faces $376,000 cut in federal funding.
- Kentucky Educational Television canceled Fancy Farm coverage due to cuts—later was restored
Thursday night’s vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to rescind $9 billion in funding for foreign aid and public media included $1.1 billion meant to fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) over the next two years.
Appeals Court approves Jewish woman's challenge to KY's abortion law ban
Are KY's IVF laws clear?
Pro-life Live Action President Lila Rose, on X: "Only 7% of human embryos created via IVF will result in a live birth. 93% of these lives are frozen indefinitely, miscarried, or aborted. Over 1,000,000 embryos are frozen in the U.S. IVF is NOT pro-life."
Federal hearing on safety of organ transplants.
Feds investigating after Kentucky man's organs nearly removed while he was alive... The hearings come after a federal investigation into Louisville-based nonprofit Network for Hope after claims that the organization tried to harvest organs from some people who woke up after being declared brain dead.
One Year Ago
Now
Familiar face in view
Beshear on international stage
Across the Ohio River in Cincinnati
WHY?
Why can students file a complaint against the for-profit school industry but not the public school system?
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USA & World
Developing and damaging!
Weaponization under deep scrutiny
RevolverNews: For years, the American people have been gaslit, silenced, and lied to. We were told that Russiagate was real, that Trump was Putin’s puppet, and that the intelligence community had the evidence to prove it. But now, the whole thing is blowing wide open, thanks to President Trump and Tulsi Gabbard. And what’s being exposed isn’t just some shady political hit job; it’s something way bigger. This was an orchestrated coup attempt. A deliberate, calculated, and sinister scheme to take out a presidential candidate and then sabotage him once he won.
Who really signed the pardons?
Trump directive orders housing for homeless
WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling on states and cities to end “endemic vagrancy” — and rehouse homeless people, including drug addicts and those suffering from mental problems, in “treatment centers.”
ALL-TIME LOW Birthrates
The number of births in the United States increased 1% from 2023 to 2024, to 3,628,934 births. The general fertility rate declined 1% from 2023 to 2024 to 53.8 births per 1,000 females ages 15–44. Read more.
Bremen has the most crime and the highest share of migrants of all German states
In fact, non-German suspects are responsible for 73 percent of all crime in Bremen in 2024, compared to 57 percent in 2023. As Buten an Binnen notes, “Young men from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Syria stand out as suspected perpetrators. This group of people continues to be kept in mind, and many of the perpetrators have been imprisoned.”
Gang violence escalates across immigrant-heavy neighborhoods
The city of Nîmes has become the first major French city to implement a nightly curfew for minors under the age of 16, as authorities scramble to respond to an intensifying wave of gang violence, largely linked to drug trafficking in the city’s poorer districts.
Member states rewrite the rules
A paradigm shift is sweeping across Europe. From Finland to Portugal, from Greece to Ireland, countries across the continent are steadily tightening their immigration policies. What progressive elites used to denounce as ‘xenophobic rhetoric’ barely a decade ago is now being implemented as laws, decrees, and police operations in response to mounting public pressure led by the social and political Right. Reality, pushed forward by popular discontent, has crashed into the immigration debate with full force.
Blocking migrants
Citizens speak out
