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There were a couple of noteworthy investigative stories in the C-J over the weekend, and a few other things you, as a well-informed news consumer, should be aware of.
Good Report, Bad Cop: R.G. Dunlop's investigation of Louisville police detective Crystal Marlowe revealed a sad story of how a 22-year-old U of L student was falsely accused of a crime and forced to spend five days in jail. Though Marlowe had knowledge that Tiffany Washington wasn't in town when the break-in occurred, she still pursued the arrest, maybe because. And Dunlop found that Washington's experience was not unique in Marlowe's caseload. Now let's see if Chief Robert White has the guts to get rid of Marlowe, who, judging by the story, feels no remorse for the pain she's caused, primarily to innocent African-American citizens.
And She's Not Even a Football Coach: The C-J's Nancy Rodriguez broke a blockbuster story on Friday, revealing that for no apparent legitimate reason U of L decided to reward an employee it wanted to fire with a compensation package worth six figures. Alicia Sells gets six months paid administrative leave (salary: $140K) and the school has to hire her as a consultant when that runs out in June, all written into a separation agreement the school's trustees signed off on in December.
Sells had a lofty title -- associate vice president for government relations and special assistant to President James Ramsey -- but she was basically a lobbyist for Ramsey. So why would the school be so generous, and why would it not respond to the newspaper's request for an interview? Were the Trustees aware that there's a fiscal crisis going on, and it's no time to be rewarding bad hires with lucrative deals to go away?
Anybody else disgusted with this?
Speaking of Disgust: Joe Gerth is keeping up with all the disgusting behavior in Frankfort, the worst of which was a state Senate candidate, Jack Ditty, who decided to secretly tape his opponent, Robin Webb, during a visit to her office, hoping to dig up something damaging. Then, Webb was accused of calling Senate President David Williams a dick, which he may be, but she says she said dictator.
Sweeps Champ - Ali: Last last week, WLKY-TV started promoting its interview with Lonnie Ali, the champ's wife, and kept it up throughout the highly-rated Super Bowl on Sunday as a major story. Turns out Mrs. Ali also did an interview with Fox41, which started promoting its interview with her for tonight.
A New Deal for Azalea spot, Maybe: The zoning fight between neighbors in Mockingbird Valley and the owners of the old Azalea restaurant building may be ending, and there's a plan to open a new place, Monterrey, at the popular spot on Brownsboro Road. There are still some hurdles though, as Fox41 reports.
The Big Number for the Super Bowl: Overnight ratings for Sunday's game in Louisville showed a 51 rating and 70 share, a 10 percent higher-than-expected local number, said WLKY GM Glenn Haygood. It was sure better than what a Jets-Vikings game would have done.
Ouch! That One Hurt: I'm gong to have to challenge LEO's Phillip Bailey to a push-up contest after he wrote this about our little online skirmish:
We were going to poke fun at the blogger-in-chief, until we noticed the web advertisement on Mojo, which shows Redding's (much younger, chiseled) frame standing over 500-feet tall. No way we're going to mess with him."
One word: Photoshop.
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SciFiNut
mon feb 08 2010
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>Sells had a lofty title -- associate vice president for government relations and special assistant to President James Ramsey...So why would the school be so generous<<
Maybe she was a Very Special Assistant and she's being paid not to become another Karen Sypher. |
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sniper310
mon feb 08 2010
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If there is truth to the CJ story about Marlowe, then one wonders what has taken Louisville Metro Internal Affairs so long to respond to accusations, or if there isn't more to the story that hasn't been told, since this has allegedly has been going on for awhile. If what I have read in the CJ is true, then there is shared responsibility among supervisors, one would think, up the chain of command. But then again, I have noted a distinct liberal bias in the CJ before. |
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BASHFUL
mon feb 08 2010
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Maybe Ramsey took her to dinner at porcinni's?? |
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SciFiNut
mon feb 08 2010
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Bashful, that joke was done in the first post. Please try again. |
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