Broken Sidewalk

AAA in Oregon & Idaho offering roadside bicycle assistance (Bike Portland) Wider driving lanes can sometimes make the street more dangerous (PPS) City cataloguing Louisville's public art for better care (WFPL) Jeffersonville using stimulus funds to clean up underground tanks (C-J) More on...

PGA Championship could be back at Valhalla in 2014 (Ville-Voice) But PGA of America denies all rumors for or against it (C-J) Millions in Federal money heading to KY for energy efficiency projects (C-J) Are you an artist in need of assistance?...

Transportation States spending <1% of stimulus money on public transportation (WSJ) Examining the gender gap among urban cyclists (NY Times) Why is Kentucky subsidizing buying a new car? (C-J) Analyzing car externalities in urban cores w/ NYC as model (Reuters via StreetsBlog) Study: More...

It's been a relatively slow news week. Enjoy your Independence Day weekend. New Rainbow Blossom to open on Gardiner Lane (Consuming Lou) Is there a new bar headed for Baxter Ave's Nios building? (Consuming Lou) New restaurant planned for old Karma Cafe...

Four Louisville events in Southeast Tourism's Top 20 for summer/fall (Biz First) New Albany's Bank Street Brew House adds a patio (NA Confidential) Ramsey, U of L, honor the Louisville Arena Authority (U of L) Southwest Louisville setting up Ambassador program (Valley...

Should the new arena be dubbed the 'Jim Host Arena'? (WHAS Political Blog) McMansions falling out of fashion as boomers age amid recession (WSJ) A call to stop calling all Americans 'consumers' (World Changing) Five important but lesser known green jobs (TreeHugger) Smog...

You may notice a few tweaks to the Broken Sidewalk user interface. Hopefully the changes will make the site faster and easier to read. We have also removed the forums for now as they weren't getting much use. Bear...

Special thanks to our first regular Broken Sidewalk contributor, Diane Deaton-Street, who will be sending in sidewalk views from around the city in upcoming weeks. Well, we finished skimming over a couple thousand headlines and now feel sufficiently caught up...

Hello again. Sorry the transition has taken a little longer than anticipated, I just got my Internet up and running today after three long weeks going without. This is the first post from New York just to let our...