Boyd: Benefiting from the madness.

Offbeat title, but spot on as to the central point ... and not only as it pertains to Syria. I can hear the rednecks wail, which is the best reason to pursue it.

Terry Boyd: How Louisville can benefit from the Syrian Civil War, by Terry Boyd (Insider Louisville)

All that said, we can benefit from the madness.

We can again make a conscious effort to relocate Syrian refugees of all religious groups – Shi’a, Sunnis, Christians, Alawites, Yazidis and Sufis – to Louisville.

I say “again,” because the Jewish Family and Vocational Center, Catholic Charities of Louisville and other groups have helped relocate, then support, waves of immigrants to Louisville since the 1980s including Vietnamese, Bosnians, Russians and Somalis.

The city is all the better for it.

"Because it’s not the first question that gets to the truth. It’s the second and third questions."

If I had ever been here before
I would probably know just what to do
Don't you?

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Terry Boyd: Louisville media and the unasked $64 million questions

By TERRY BOYD | Published: MAY 29, 2013

How do I put this respectfully?

When people dissemble, they generally are reverting – sometimes involuntarity– to a Darwinian survival mode.

Especially in a big business or financial deal, they do what they need to do to get out of a tight spot.

But a very intentional message embedded in a transparent lie is, “You’re so stupid, we can tell you anything.”

The problem with a Louisville media that it is so incurious and so math- and finance-challenged is that you really can tell them anything.

Curtis Morrison and the curious case of adult supervision at Insider Louisville.

Dear Terry,

Seriously?

Might a wee bit of this "adult supervision" be advisable for some of your other Insider Louisville writers?

Hint: I'm thinking of this fellow named Tierney.

Full disclosure: I've known Curtis for ten years or so, ever since I was a tenant during his in real estate days.

Can't say I have a dog in this fight; just curious as to your selective application of the supervision doctrine. Tierney's beer blather in the Forecastle series was about as wrongheaded as you're accusing Curtis of being.

Just saying.

R

Terry Boyd: The curious case of Curtis Morrison

By TERRY BOYD | Published: APRIL 12, 2013

Curtis Morrison

Last night, I got emails from Ruby Cramer, a reporter atBuzzFeed.

Cramer wanted Curtis Morrison’s contact information.

All I could tell her is, “Curtis is no longer a contributor to Insider Louisville.”

Which is a shame.

Curtis has the makings of a solid reporter, under adult supervision.

Exceptional when it comes to getting public documents under the Freedom of Information Act, then squeezing out all the data and nuances on the way to documenting an important story.

Unfortunately, Curtis is also an overt and dedicated political activist, and you can’t be both at the same time at Insider Louisville.

It was my mistake to keep Curtis without an explicit guarantee he wouldn’t indulge in politics.

A painful lesson we’ll never repeat.

Boyd: ORBP a "1950s solution to a 21st Century problem."

The rest of the planet continues to understand what Kerry Stemler, Ed Clere, Greg Fischer and Bob Caesar cannot. Do you think a single one of them read the NY Times article prompting Boyd's comments, below? I would't bet on it. Just last week Mayor Fischer the ORBP proponent was prattling on about sustainability even as pots and kettles turned red with embarrassment.

NYTimes on Louisville: A city that can’t stop making historically bad choices, by Terry Boyd (Insider Louisville)

... the more interesting interviews are with downtown bridge opponents U of L Professor Hank Savitch and 8664 founder Tyler Allen.

Savitch sums up what’s coming with the new downtown bridge: “It will dissipate energy in the central city, where they should be concentrating investment, and instead draw capital to the outer metropolitan area.”

Allen makes the point that the forces for enhancing Lousiville’s riverfront instead of burying it in concrete ran “into the buzz saw of power.”

In fairness, that buzz saw of power was propelled by the fact our three (still functioning) bridges are so old and so neglected, they’re on the verge of being structurally unsound, overstressed and unsafe at any speed.

But instead of considering ingenious and forward-looking options, everyone from former Mayor Jerry Abramson to Southern Indiana power broker Kerry Stemler chose to apply a 1950s solution to a 21st Century problem.