Here’s our last post for 2008, we hope you all have a good new year and we’ll see you back again next week.
Transportation Issues
- Fewer drivers means drop in traffic fatalities (WFPL)
- Obama’s road stimulus plan facing money problems (NPR)
Libraries
- Libraries scale back plans to $120 million (C-J)
- But still have no idea how to fund it (Ville-Voice)
- But some think bonds might be a good plan (Fox 41)
- Even though library use is at an all-time high (WHAS 11)
- Check out the huge 57-page masterplan here (LFPL)
Local News
- Motorized sidewalk ‘street’sweeper crashes into LEO building (Fatlip)
- Fire Chief says York & 6th station is not needed (LEO)
- But SoBro still fighting to save its fire house (C-J)
- New documentary features Cherokee Triangle’s old Bluegrass Hotel (WFPL)
- Airport continues to move families and plans a larger runway (Fox 41)
- But passenger traffic at the airport down 3.5% this year (WFPL)
- Hard times for recycling in Southern Indiana (C-J)
- Leadership West Louisville to hold event January 14 (Business First)
Everything Else
- Spreading salt brine in 50-degree weather investigated (WAVE 3)
- We’re not alone: 1 of 3 Americans breathes too much soot (SFGate via Planetizen)
- Sotheby’s opens real estate office in Lexington (H-L)
- Exporting suburbs oversees (Huff Post via Planetizen)
- The urban phenomenon of canyons and cracks (Lebbeus Woods)
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