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Old 08-17-2020, 02:20 PM
 
Location: My beloved Bluegrass
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This morning Metro Council members Kramer, Reed, Parker, Piagentini, Benson, Engel, and Peden filed a resolution requesting Fischer’s resignation.

Some of the reasons:
  • Rise in the number of annual homicides reported over Fischer’s tenure.
  • Preventing his staff from participating in Metro Council hearings following the death of Breonna Taylor.
  • Handling of protests over the course of the past three months, including refusal to enforce local and state laws.
  • Failure to promptly address multiple allegations of sexual misconduct in Metro Animal Services, TARC, and the LMPD Explorer program.

https://www.wave3.com/2020/08/17/cou...th-resolution/
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Old 08-18-2020, 12:02 AM
 
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This morning Metro Council members Kramer, Reed, Parker, Piagentini, Benson, Engel, and Peden filed a resolution requesting Fischer’s resignation.

Some of the reasons:
  • Rise in the number of annual homicides reported over Fischer’s tenure.
  • Preventing his staff from participating in Metro Council hearings following the death of Breonna Taylor.
  • Handling of protests over the course of the past three months, including refusal to enforce local and state laws.
  • Failure to promptly address multiple allegations of sexual misconduct in Metro Animal Services, TARC, and the LMPD Explorer program.

https://www.wave3.com/2020/08/17/cou...th-resolution/
Louisville must keep in mind that its news stations need to consider it is now a big city; they cannot report like small town news stations.

Downtown is just sad, not dangerous. Louisville has been set back to 2008 or so. That said, from where I have traveled and read about, every major city has been set back. Regionally, Indy, Cincy, St Louis are total holes. Being in the SE, Louisville has a chance to boom post Covid as big NE and Midwest cities are going to empty out. Not everyone can move to FL, and the other popular SE states are just getting too full, plus Louisville is a great spot especially for those from Midwest states bordering KY who are within striking distance of home.

Bottom line? The city needs leadership. Call me naive, but this is an opportunity for Louisville to either reinvent herself, or fall down the worm whole into Midwest blight.
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Old 08-18-2020, 07:55 AM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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Louisville must keep in mind that its news stations need to consider it is now a big city; they cannot report like small town news stations.

Downtown is just sad, not dangerous. Louisville has been set back to 2008 or so. That said, from where I have traveled and read about, every major city has been set back. Regionally, Indy, Cincy, St Louis are total holes. Being in the SE, Louisville has a chance to boom post Covid as big NE and Midwest cities are going to empty out. Not everyone can move to FL, and the other popular SE states are just getting too full, plus Louisville is a great spot especially for those from Midwest states bordering KY who are within striking distance of home.

Bottom line? The city needs leadership. Call me naive, but this is an opportunity for Louisville to either reinvent herself, or fall down the worm whole into Midwest blight.
What a broad brush inaccurate statement. There are plenty of nice areas in the Midwest that are low crime, they just don't generally happen to be the largest cities. There are many nicer smaller cities in the Midwest that rank far better in important metrics compared to smaller cities in the Southeast as well.
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Old 08-18-2020, 08:56 AM
 
Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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Downtown will be hurt significantly but I doubt that brings down all the thriving areas ringing it. If anything it will speed up improvements in all three Indiana downtowns, Frankfort Ave, and the Highlands. So far crime increase seems to be in areas that already had high crime.
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Old 08-21-2020, 03:40 AM
 
Location: My beloved Bluegrass
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Louisville must keep in mind that its news stations need to consider it is now a big city; they cannot report like small town news stations.

Downtown is just sad, not dangerous. Louisville has been set back to 2008 or so. That said, from where I have traveled and read about, every major city has been set back. Regionally, Indy, Cincy, St Louis are total holes. Being in the SE, Louisville has a chance to boom post Covid as big NE and Midwest cities are going to empty out. Not everyone can move to FL, and the other popular SE states are just getting too full, plus Louisville is a great spot especially for those from Midwest states bordering KY who are within striking distance of home.

Bottom line? The city needs leadership. Call me naive, but this is an opportunity for Louisville to either reinvent herself, or fall down the worm whole into Midwest blight.
I agree this is a crucial juncture for Louisville. I also feel this is a step in the right direction, Fischer has not been good for Louisville.
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Old 08-23-2020, 02:38 PM
 
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I agree this is a crucial juncture for Louisville. I also feel this is a step in the right direction, Fischer has not been good for Louisville.
Excellent points. This has set Louisville back but if it can build and unite entire city across 9th st, it has a chance to participate in the new economy and boom!
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Old 08-26-2020, 10:19 AM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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Excellent points. This has set Louisville back but if it can build and unite entire city across 9th st, it has a chance to participate in the new economy and boom!
Louisville will never grow like any Sunbelt city (you can't change the very messed up weather of the Ohio Valley), it could grow larger in percentage terms similar to Indy, though.
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Old 08-27-2020, 11:03 PM
 
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Louisville will never grow like any Sunbelt city (you can't change the very messed up weather of the Ohio Valley), it could grow larger in percentage terms similar to Indy, though.
Similar to Orlando or Phoenix? Probably not. There is no reason Louisville cannot do by 2030 what Nashville started in 2010. It almost exclusively depends on real estate prices and leadership. The leadership is too poor right now for it to even grow over the current 5%.
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Old 09-25-2020, 07:22 PM
 
Location: Northern Wisconsin
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After seeing all the riots, Louisville is finished. People will remember, not move there or move out. No calling in National Guard to put down the riots? Trust me, these riots will affect those cities for decades, and not in a good way.
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Old 09-26-2020, 07:58 AM
 
Location: My beloved Bluegrass
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After seeing all the riots, Louisville is finished. People will remember, not move there or move out. No calling in National Guard to put down the riots? Trust me, these riots will affect those cities for decades, and not in a good way.
The National Guard has been in the Louisville area since Tuesday evening - it was reported in the 500 range were sent there. Additionally, neighboring jurisdictions lent LMPD police personnel to do normal services outside of the protest area, such as wrecks, to free up a greater percentage of their own police to work the protests/riots. It would help greatly if outside agitators weren’t there. I do think if Fischer had handled thus whole mess better from the get-go it wouldn’t be so bad now.
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