That’s from September 2006.

It’s a real shame he hasn’t had a credible opponent, you know, ever. Because we can only imagine how good the ads would be.

A Kentucky State Police spokesman said it appears that more than one person was involved in the ambush slaying of a Bardstown police officer. [H-L]

Armed with ceremonial shovels, Governor Steve Beshear (D) and Lt. Gov. Jerry Abramson unearthed souvenir wooden nickels at the groundbreaking of the Ohio River Bridges Project on Tuesday. [WHAS11]

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will visit a Louisville early childhood development center Thursday morning. Duncan will be at St. Benedict Center of Early Childhood Development on 25th Street in the California neighborhood of Louisville Thursday morning and then participate in a discussion about early childhood development issues. [Ronnie Ellis]

Police recovered more than $30,000 worth of stolen electronics, firearms and jewelry from a couple accused of breaking into Jeffersontown houses. [WAVE3]

Same-sex couples face significant levels of discrimination in the rental housing market, according to a landmark government study released on Tuesday. [HuffPo]

Ground has been broken on the downtown crossing of the Ohio River Bridges Project. [WLKY]

Representatives of the company seeking to build a pipeline carrying pressurized, flammable natural gas liquids across the northern tier of Kentucky tried to assure a Nelson County audience that they would be a safe and cooperative neighbor. [C-J/AKN]

Immigration reform would have a positive impact on the federal budget, according to an analysis of the Senate bill by the Congressional Budget Office. [Business First]

Three more redevelopment projects pushed by Jeffersonville Mayor Mike Moore were approved by the Jeffersonville City Council. [News & Tribune]

Didn’t John Yarmuth announce this several months ago? Democrat John Yarmuth will seek a fifth term as Kentucky’s Third District Congressman in 2014. [WFPL]

We hear through the grapevine that someone has filed whistleblower paperwork over the University of Louisville Foundation 990. [The 'Ville Voice]

We’ve been hitting the Kentucky Retirement Systems lately for investments on a percentage basis. Seems the UofL Foundation is at least twice as bad. Secret high fees in public-type funds? Check. And they’re the leading cause of kickbacks and corruption in most situations like this, it seems.

Dig into that 990 a bit. Hop down to page ten. They’re paying investment management fees totaling $5.7 million per year on $653 million in assets. They pay their investment consultant, Cambridge, twice as much as the KRS for about 1/20th the amount of assets.

It was interesting stuff. Extremely high for a fund that size, though not the highest.

What’s even more interesting: if you take a look at the 990 for the following year, the UofL Foundation reported $0 in investment management fees:

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After the $5.7 million figure we reported for the year prior.

Interesting how that works.

Because Louisville always needs to pay more taxes, right? Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said Monday he will support the creation of a tax-increment financing district for a new University of Louisville research park in eastern Jefferson County. [C-J/AKN]

A Louisville man has been arrested after police say he was drunk and approaching children at a local swim club. Witnesses say Koven was also trying to pass out American flags to people and got aggressive if they said no. [WHAS11]

Today at 5:00, Papaw and Jerry will be downtown to participate in the Ohio River Bridges Debacle groundbreaking. [Press Release]

Shelbyville police have identified the body of a juvenile found in a creek Monday morning. Police say the body is that of a 15-year-old girl. [WLKY]

Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell is rejecting a private ethics sanction from the Kentucky Bar Association. As a result he is facing harsher penalties and increased scrutiny from critics, who are openly recruiting former Commonwealth’s Attorney Dave Stengel to run against O’Connell next year. Translation: the good old boy network doesn’t like what he’s doing. That’s why people like Benham Sims are foaming at the mouth. [WFPL]

A hydrochloric acid leak continued to flow Sunday night. The leak came from a 500,000 gallon tank at Dupont Fluroproducts. [WAVE3]

A Lexington internal medicine and infectious disease specialist will head the American Medical Association. [Business First]

Most adults in developed countries favor gay marriage or some type of legal recognition for same-sex couples and think they should be able to adopt children, according to an international poll released on Tuesday. [Reuters]

If you watched Friday’s Comment on Kentucky, you didn’t learn anything about the special election in the 56th State House District. [Page One]

Looks like Jeffersonville is getting tired of its current crazy mayor. City Councilman Dennis Julius said Monday he will run for mayor of Jeffersonville in 2015. [News & Tribune]

A Kentucky judge is weighing whether a same-sex couple qualifies for the privilege of not testifying against a spouse in a slaying case in Louisville. [H-L]

When it comes to helping nature adapt to climate change, biologists say it’s all about resilience, or the ability of plants, animals or ecological systems to bounce back after disturbances. [C-J/AKN]

Changes are coming to the Lyndon Fire Protection District and it will have a huge impact on how long firefighters take to respond to emergencies. Beginning July 1, staff reductions will take place and it has sparked serious concerns from residents in Lyndon. [WHAS11]

Real life has been hard for Deric Lostutter. But with public attention focused on the shadowy worlds of government surveillance and online vigilantism, the tattooed rapper and computer geek from Winchester has become an unlikely celebrity. [H-L]

Anxious residents were still awaiting answers more than a month after four people were found dead in an Indiana home. [WLKY]

For years, Jefferson County Public Schools has tried a host of measures to turn around its lowest-performing schools and students — with limited success. [C-J/AKN]

Several years ago, if you spent the day in downtown New Albany, you wouldn’t have much to do. Store fronts were empty and there were only a few restaurants. [WAVE3]

Preservation Louisville is repairing a second shotgun house as part of its ongoing project called Save Our Shotguns, which looks to restore some of the thousands of shotgun homes that exist in Louisville. [WFPL]

A private jet that had former President George W. Bush on board made an emergency landing Saturday night. The Federal Aviation Administration said Sunday that the jet was flying from Philadelphia to Dallas, where Bush lives. The FAA said the plane was diverted to Louisville, Ky., after the smell of smoke was reported in the cockpit. No one was hurt. [HuffPo]

Junior Bridgeman, chairman and CEO of Bridgeman Foods Inc., reminisced this morning about the days of dining at the old Blue Boar Cafeterias, which originated in Louisville in the 1930s. [Business First]

Hoo boy, the Kentucky Democratic Republican Party and the Republican Party of Kentucky are really showing their rear end this week. [Page One]

Sales from the initial phase of the Neighborhood Stabilization Project yielded about $954,000 for continued improvements to housing stock in New Albany. [News & Tribune]

Gannett, best known as the newspaper publisher behind USA Today, is making a big bet on TV: It is paying $1.5 billion, and taking on $715 million in debt, to acquire local station owner Belo Corp. What that means for Louisville: not much. Maybe worse station management. But not much. [All Things D]

The Kentucky State Fair Board released a report today on the structural stability of Cardinal Stadium. It’s recommended that the outer perimeter of the stadium’s grandstand area be roped off by at least 15 feet in the event of falling brick or concrete. [WHAS11]

Seven Counties Services has announced it will extend health insurance to same-sex domestic partners for its employees. Bring on the plethora of mouth-breathers losing their minds. [WFPL]

The University of Kentucky and GE Appliances are teaming up to collaborate on research projects that will bring new innovations in the field of major appliances. [WAVE3]

Filmmaker waited 18 years to release documentary about Gatewood Galbraith. Growing up in Louisville’s Bingham family, Chris Iovenko was always interested in politics and was plugged in to the Kentucky Democratic Party. [H-L]

The owners of a bar spent the night cleaning up a mess after a vehicle ran into the building. [WLKY]

Two organizations dedicated to improving downtown have signed a management agreement that brings them together as the Louisville Downtown Partnership. [C-J/AKN]

The Ohio River Bridges Debacle is all a bunch of puppies and rainbows funtimes for the local business paper. [Here, Here & Here]

The low bid for the construction of Big Four Station came in on target Wednesday morning. Louisville-based Wycliffe Enterprises Inc. was the low bidder of the four proposals opened Wednesday. The base bid totaled $4.2 million with an alternate bid for a fiber-optic enclosure that totaled $35,000. [News & Tribune]

If you missed it, Steve Beshear went to Canada and lied about solving Kentucky’s pension crisis. [Page One]

Highlights:

• 63% said they strongly or somewhat support bipartisan immigration reform legislation being debated in Washington;
• 73% said they strongly or somewhat support a bill that includes a tough but fair path to citizenship;
• 61% of those polled are more likely to vote for an elected official who supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship.
• 88% of those polled said it was very or somewhat important that the U.S. fix its immigration system this year.
• Of those polled, 41% identified as Republicans, 50% as Democrats, and 9% as Independents.

An interesting quote from a release included with the poll:

“The future of Kentucky agriculture is extremely bright but will be significantly jeopardized without an accessible, affordable, and dependable labor supply, which hinges critically on successful immigration reform,” said Will Snell, Co-Director of the Kentucky Agriculture Leadership Program and an Agricultural Economist at the University of Kentucky.

If you want to take a look at the poll, click here (Warning: PDF Link).