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One Way or Another
Sep. 17th, 2020 09:58 pmThe new diagnosis is a bad alternator. Which is no bueno because the fool thing was put on the Mariner just a couple of months ago. It's under warranty, hooray, and the shop promised that if the new battery is ruined because of the alternator, they'll replace that as well. So, the wait continues.
The Green River and all the lesser creeks and streams in its watershed are back to normal now, but a lot of cleaning up has to be done. No word on when KY70 will be repaired; currently there's a temporary traffic signal at the washout. I figure a couple of weeks while surveyors and engineers do their things. Doesn't really affect me, but there's a lot of traffic through there, and I know that there's going to be an increase on the two county roads that let you bypass the washout - and one of those is the only way to Mom&Dad's.
The city of Louisville agreed to a $12 million settlement with Breonna Taylor's family. It's a step in the right direction, and now we're waiting to hear what the grand jury decides. I have to hope that the settlement is a sign that something like manslaughter 2 or negligent homicide is on the table. I'm pessimistic enough to expect nothing of the sort, and if that turns out to be the case (or not-case), then buckle up folks because the area around 6th and Jefferson is going to get wild.
Related, the city council passed a no-confidence vote on the mayor today. 22-4, so pretty resounding. The resolution doesn't call for Fischer's resignation - an earlier draft did, however - but it lays out steps that the council wants to see the mayor take.
I met the mayor a couple of times in school, and I liked him enough to vote for him when I had the chance. I've lost a lot of respect for him since March and the beginning of the demonstrations. He's made very little effort to rein in LMPD's excesses - allowing the chief of police to resign with full benefits was pretty damned weak, I think. He's term-limited, so unless he had designs on a higher-level office, his political career would be at an end when he leaves office in 2023. Even if he did want to run for something at the state level, I think he's too tainted by the Taylor story to be viable.
The Green River and all the lesser creeks and streams in its watershed are back to normal now, but a lot of cleaning up has to be done. No word on when KY70 will be repaired; currently there's a temporary traffic signal at the washout. I figure a couple of weeks while surveyors and engineers do their things. Doesn't really affect me, but there's a lot of traffic through there, and I know that there's going to be an increase on the two county roads that let you bypass the washout - and one of those is the only way to Mom&Dad's.
The city of Louisville agreed to a $12 million settlement with Breonna Taylor's family. It's a step in the right direction, and now we're waiting to hear what the grand jury decides. I have to hope that the settlement is a sign that something like manslaughter 2 or negligent homicide is on the table. I'm pessimistic enough to expect nothing of the sort, and if that turns out to be the case (or not-case), then buckle up folks because the area around 6th and Jefferson is going to get wild.
Related, the city council passed a no-confidence vote on the mayor today. 22-4, so pretty resounding. The resolution doesn't call for Fischer's resignation - an earlier draft did, however - but it lays out steps that the council wants to see the mayor take.
I met the mayor a couple of times in school, and I liked him enough to vote for him when I had the chance. I've lost a lot of respect for him since March and the beginning of the demonstrations. He's made very little effort to rein in LMPD's excesses - allowing the chief of police to resign with full benefits was pretty damned weak, I think. He's term-limited, so unless he had designs on a higher-level office, his political career would be at an end when he leaves office in 2023. Even if he did want to run for something at the state level, I think he's too tainted by the Taylor story to be viable.