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~ some professional news ~

We, the journalists of The Louisville Courier Journal, are āœØunionizing.āœØ

We love our city and our newsroom and want both to be the best they can be.

That canā€™t happen unless we have a seat at the table and our voices are fully heard.

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Corporate-dictated unpaid furloughs.

The closing of our local press.

The listing of our building for sale.

Buyouts. Layoffs.

Time after time, @Gannett's actions have chipped away at morale and at our product.

Louisville deserves better.

(Save your Bingham jokes, plz!)
Weā€™ve watched young reporters with fires in their bellies work second jobs because their @Gannett salary didnā€™t cut it.

Since the start of 2021, more than 20 of our talented and passionate colleagues have left our paper.

They deserved a company that gave back to them.
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Superintendent Marty Pollio is recapping the first day of school.

He says first day transportation woes are normal. Some kindergartners are navigating the bus system for the first time, and that can cause delays.

Also, yesterdayā€™s thunderstorm knocked out power at two compounds
The last student got home about six minutes earlier than on last yearā€™s first day, Pollio says.
We have a SPECIAL GUEST
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If police accountability and government transparency are things you're into (šŸ™‹ā€ā™€ļø), then yesterday was a big day in Louisville.

Let's recap, shall we?

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First up, the Police Merit Board met yesterday.

They set the appeal for Joshua Jaynes, the former LMPD detective who sought the no-knock warrant for Breonna Taylor's apartment, for four days in June.

The hearing for Myles Cosgrove is TBD.
courier-journal.com/story/news/locā€¦
In the last couple of weeks, I've had two stories documenting LMPD's continued refusal to release investigative records in disciplinary cases.

The first, was about a major demoted to lieutenant: courier-journal.com/story/news/locā€¦
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Iā€™m at the Louisville Metro Councilā€™s government oversight committee meeting, where Amy Hess, chief of public safety, and Robert Schroeder, acting chief of @LMPD, are both present. Previously, Schroeder had indicated to the courts he would not testify. Guess weā€™ll see... Image
Also in the room is LMPDā€™s command staff, seen hearing taking oath. Image
Hess begins with a disclaimer about all the things she cannot say, citing state law as well as requests from @kyoag and FBI, who have not announced final outcome from #BreonnaTaylor investigation.
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THREAD: Quotes from protesters in Louisville, who want justice for #BreonnaTaylor.

"We're not out here to be killed, we're out here to make a point and a statement. To get them to listen to us." - @Seasoned4u
"The mayor is saying he can't fire the police, the chief is trying to slide out. Who is holding the police accountable?"

@Seasoned4u #BreonnaTaylor
"You had people who were really upset already, then you provoke a crowd that's already at the brink of their breaking point. These are the people who've watched their brothers get killed on live video."

@Seasoned4u #BreonnaTaylor
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1/Dear #loumedia:

GDC believes it takes a ton of racially-motivated gall for @AndyBeshearKY to stand on this hallowed activist ground for this event, the @AliCenter. He privately apologized for 1) @steve_beshear's lack of Black diversity on the board;

2/ 2) he never publicly engaged @MattBevin's decision to join the @LouisvilleJRC racial composition case, nor former Prez Ramsey's abrupt turnaround to support Bevin, including an order to stop operation of @uofl BofT;
3/ And most importantly he has never explained why it took criticism of a 2017 @uoflf audit for him to start a criminal investigation, ignoring probable cause evidence of crimes in 2015 article by Chris Otts. wdrb.com/news/sunday-edā€¦
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