I keep hearing complaints about the “bar corridor” of Bardstown Road – so I decided to see it for myself, and the 5th Division of the Louisville Metro Police Department let me tag along for a midnight ride last night. Because it was an unusually warm Saturday, the night brought a range of activity, including: – […]
The third area of a Council member’s job is finding ways to work across districts to help the council lead Louisville into a bolder and better future. The Metro Council has some success in this work. It passed the Fairness Ordinance (many years after some of us began asking it to do so). And that […]
The second area of a Council member’s work is identifying those issues that connect every neighborhood in a district. Bardstown Road – a Master Plan that Serves Neighbors In District 8, that means Bardstown Road. It’s our backbone, and it connects us all. We love Bardstown Road’s balance of commercial activity and wonderful residential neighborhoods […]
The first, and by far the most important, part of a Council member’s job is constituent service: listening to the real needs of every person in the district and serving them where they live: in their homes, on their streets and in their neighborhoods. And here are a couple of things I’ve been hearing: Pedestrian […]
My campaign “officially” kicked off this month with a high-energy event at the Mellow Mushroom. (Check out this recent story on the my friend Andy Blieden’s successful renovation of this Highlands brownfield into a neighrbood gem) More than 200 friends, old and new, joined me and my family for the start of what I […]