Pat Smith

"The Newest Front in America’s Supermarket War Is…Kentucky?"

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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."

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meet me at the publicly subsidized chain restaurant

the 'berg walking into Middletown Rooster's after announcing three hypothetical office-to-hotel conversions and a $7 million Mitch-assist for the Belvedere

Rooster's is the Louisville Tea Party's Vincenzo's

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

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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cumulative domestic migration of each US county, from 2020 to 2024 from John Johnson
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when opinions about city services are presented by local governance authorities as "fact" via uncanny valley reels

coming from a career as an HR exec at Intel

nice... exactly what I was a looking for... a cozy neighborhood spot with draft NA

i love how this piece of journalism presupposes that the reader is driving a car and is absolutely not a pedestrian

just read a blog post that said draft NAs are commonplace (and even expected) in Europe but maybe aren't big here because its slightly more expense to preserve (🙄)

does Louisville have any places with draft NA?

can we unpack the CJ's use of "unwanted development" in this story?

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.

A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.

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.

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...

rainy day demolition work on the former Urban Government Center.... abandoned by Louisville Metro a decade ago

tucking this image of the official "2017 Colonial Gardens Redevelopment Groundbreaking hat with the Dan Johnson embroidery signature" here for safekeeping

they gentrified Bologna sandwiches

continuing the Gatlinburgization of a historic neighborhood in Louisville

Memoir of a Mailman A new book describes the challenges and joys of life as a letter carrier.

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.

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

"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"
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oh lord

near the old Shoney's (El Nopal)

celebrating over a decade of the Fiesta Bonita dinner special at El Tarasco on Preston