Pat Smith
@cityresearch.bsky.social
cities, data stuff, louisville
rainy day demolition work on the former Urban Government Center.... abandoned by Louisville Metro a decade ago
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
rainy day demolition work on the former Urban Government Center.... abandoned by Louisville Metro a decade ago
tucking this image of the official "2017 Colonial Gardens Redevelopment Groundbreaking hat with the Dan Johnson embroidery signature" here for safekeeping
November 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
tucking this image of the official "2017 Colonial Gardens Redevelopment Groundbreaking hat with the Dan Johnson embroidery signature" here for safekeeping
they gentrified Bologna sandwiches
November 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
they gentrified Bologna sandwiches
continuing the Gatlinburgization of a historic neighborhood in Louisville
November 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
continuing the Gatlinburgization of a historic neighborhood in Louisville
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When Stephen Starring Grant was laid off, he moved home and spent a year as a rural postal worker. His memoir is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal, Tyler Austin Harper argues.
Memoir of a Mailman
A new book describes the challenges and joys of life as a letter carrier.
bit.ly
August 9, 2025 at 5:15 AM
When Stephen Starring Grant was laid off, he moved home and spent a year as a rural postal worker. His memoir is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal, Tyler Austin Harper argues.
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My latest here. Notable that less than an hour before this group released their report, legislators touted the awarding of a massive $147 million road paving contract... that only had a single bid. Details in story. #kyga25
A free market think tank found Kentucky awarded $150 million of single-bid asphalt contracts in the first six months of this year, following $270 million given in 2024. The group says the lack of competitive bidding has inflated the price of public road projects in Kentucky for decades. #kyga25
Report: Kentucky has awarded $150M of single-bid asphalt contracts this year
A free market think tank found Kentucky awarded $150 million of single-bid asphalt contracts in the first six months of this year, following $270 million given in 2024.
www.lpm.org
August 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
My latest here. Notable that less than an hour before this group released their report, legislators touted the awarding of a massive $147 million road paving contract... that only had a single bid. Details in story. #kyga25
"It's on the Louisville postcard. You can't get away from it. It's [in] the backdrop of every newscast, every national piece that's done in Louisville, it can't sit empty. It's a natural redevelopment of hospitality, residential, you could even sell condos in it"
www.bizjournals.com/louisville/n...
www.bizjournals.com/louisville/n...
August 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"It's on the Louisville postcard. You can't get away from it. It's [in] the backdrop of every newscast, every national piece that's done in Louisville, it can't sit empty. It's a natural redevelopment of hospitality, residential, you could even sell condos in it"
www.bizjournals.com/louisville/n...
www.bizjournals.com/louisville/n...
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celebrating over a decade of the Fiesta Bonita dinner special at El Tarasco on Preston
July 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
celebrating over a decade of the Fiesta Bonita dinner special at El Tarasco on Preston
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The last Kentucky Senate Democrat not from Louisville or Lexington has switched parties, announcing that she's becoming a Republican.
“While it’s cliché, it’s true: I didn’t leave the party — the party left me.”
www.kentucky.com/news/politic...
“While it’s cliché, it’s true: I didn’t leave the party — the party left me.”
www.kentucky.com/news/politic...
Robin Webb, last Eastern Kentucky Democrat in state Senate, switches parties
“I rarely get the feeling that they’re trying to engage people like me,” Webb previously said of the Democratic party.
www.kentucky.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The last Kentucky Senate Democrat not from Louisville or Lexington has switched parties, announcing that she's becoming a Republican.
“While it’s cliché, it’s true: I didn’t leave the party — the party left me.”
www.kentucky.com/news/politic...
“While it’s cliché, it’s true: I didn’t leave the party — the party left me.”
www.kentucky.com/news/politic...
when the spot has options
May 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
when the spot has options
interesting "Letter from Louisville" in this month's 175th anniversary issue of @harpers.bsky.social connecting the Old National bank mass shooting, West End investment, Quintez Brown, and Kentucky's "powerful Daddies"
harpers.org/archive/2025...
harpers.org/archive/2025...
Sons of Good Fathers, by Jonathon Sturgeon
On some killings in Kentucky
harpers.org
May 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
interesting "Letter from Louisville" in this month's 175th anniversary issue of @harpers.bsky.social connecting the Old National bank mass shooting, West End investment, Quintez Brown, and Kentucky's "powerful Daddies"
harpers.org/archive/2025...
harpers.org/archive/2025...
"Louisville, Kentucky’s pricing of the I-65 bridges has reduced traffic by half on I-65, and lowered total crossings of the Ohio River by 15 percent. "
April 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Louisville, Kentucky’s pricing of the I-65 bridges has reduced traffic by half on I-65, and lowered total crossings of the Ohio River by 15 percent. "
me when the Cards are down any amount of points
March 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
me when the Cards are down any amount of points
ahhh yes private equity... a sector famously known for reinvesting in communities
February 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
ahhh yes private equity... a sector famously known for reinvesting in communities
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This move by companies to the suburbs is a direct transfer of wealth away from employees and to employers. It makes commutes more expensive and risky, it reduces agglomeration and the ability to job switch, and it pits cities against each other in a property and sales tax race to the bottom.
February 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This move by companies to the suburbs is a direct transfer of wealth away from employees and to employers. It makes commutes more expensive and risky, it reduces agglomeration and the ability to job switch, and it pits cities against each other in a property and sales tax race to the bottom.
"Smoketown is the last existing neighborhood in Louisville that was founded by formerly enslaved African Americans just after the Civil War."
great piece from Michael L. Jones – Louisville Business First
www.bizjournals.com/louisville/n...
great piece from Michael L. Jones – Louisville Business First
www.bizjournals.com/louisville/n...
www.bizjournals.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Smoketown is the last existing neighborhood in Louisville that was founded by formerly enslaved African Americans just after the Civil War."
great piece from Michael L. Jones – Louisville Business First
www.bizjournals.com/louisville/n...
great piece from Michael L. Jones – Louisville Business First
www.bizjournals.com/louisville/n...
from Ward Jolles at WAVE 3 NEWS - "Demo work is beginning over at the old Urban Government Center. Demo company owner tells me they were just granted the demo permit this morning at 10. "
February 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
from Ward Jolles at WAVE 3 NEWS - "Demo work is beginning over at the old Urban Government Center. Demo company owner tells me they were just granted the demo permit this morning at 10. "
January 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
nice graphic from Cincinnati Enquirer data journalist Elizabeth B. Kim using data from @evictionlab.bsky.social
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
January 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
nice graphic from Cincinnati Enquirer data journalist Elizabeth B. Kim using data from @evictionlab.bsky.social
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
its hard out there for a shareholder
January 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
its hard out there for a shareholder
tryna catch a bus in Louisville rn
January 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
tryna catch a bus in Louisville rn