Ranger Michael Behenna Sentenced To Prison For Killing Terrorist

This story also brings forth the question… does a soldier have a right to defend himself in a war zone? And while the answer may seem obvious, there are people out there that disagree.
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Ranger Michael Behenna Sentenced To Prison For Killing Terrorist

Appeal filed by Barbara Shanklin

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Members of the Louisville Metro Council have begun the process to remove
fellow council member Barbara Shanklin, but her attorney is continuing to fight the ruling that started the ball rolling.

On April 1, Aubrey Williams, the attorney for Newburg-area councilwoman, filed an appeal on Shanklin's behalf. Williams is appealing the findings of the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Ethics Commission.

In March the commission ruled that Shanklin violated ethics rules and used her office to get neighborhood development grants for the Petersburg-Newburg improvement association, where she was on the board of directors.

The Ethics Commission also found that Shanklin violated ethics rules by hiring her grandson to work in her council office.

Appeal filed in Shanklin ethics ruling - wave3.com-Louisville News, Weather & Sports

Happy Birthday, Yuri Gagarin. First Human In Space

Happy Birthday to the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin:
С ДНЁМ РОЖДЕНИЯ, comrade Yuri Gagarin! I traveled with another space-man to Moscow a couple years ago to celebrate your achievements.

Archival video here at NASA.gov. Below, "The Columbus of The Cosmos" on BBC TV, July 11 1961.

Yuri: If you're looking around for that monument to you in London, they've just moved it.

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Convicted thief John Flood overseeing your tax dollars

Louisville, KY – Convicted thief John Flood is now working in Metro accounting department. You read that right. According to an open records response I filed Flood is currently working as a finance supervisor at a salary of $55,000 a year.

Can anyone explain how this happened other than political favor?

Progress vs. preservation turns into an ugly ordeal - wave3.com-Louisville News, Weather & Sports

Progress vs. preservation turns into an ugly ordeal
Here is a great story on the Landmarks Commission. They are a powerful, secretive and unsupervised group of community leaders with their own agendas. There is absolutely zero oversight from the Metro Council or Mayor's Office but they have the power to stop construction, assess penalties and order restorations. Essentially the Commission is Judge, Jury and Executioner rolled into one well hidden group.
Did you know that they have declared 80 different structures landmarks just as the properties were being purchased?
So why would the Commission jam up projects? Ask the former owner of Ginny's Dinner who the Commission targeted and eventually drove into bankruptcy.....

Follow the Money.

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