Atherton High School and Education and government and Kentucky General Assembly and LGBT rights and Louisville Collegiate School and Metro 5:16 pm
To the surprise of some observers, legislation to prohibit transgender students from using the gender-assigned restroom of their choosing in Kentucky’s public schools was not voted out of the Republican-controlled Senate Education Committee on Thursday, falling one vote short. The … Continue reading Comments Off
Assumption High School and Education 3:52 pm
Just because snow shut down schools for the past three days doesn’t mean the girls at Assumption High School have stopped learning. This year, the Archdiocese of Louisville called upon local Catholic high schools to address the problem of lost … Continue reading Comments Off
Education and James Ramsey and Metro and Shirley Willihnganz and University of Louisville and University of Louisville Foundation 12:54 pm
In his forthcoming book, “The End of College,” New America Foundation director Kevin Carey describes the furious expansion of George Washington University under the guidance of former president Stephen Trachtenberg. Founded in 1821, GWU by the late 1980s was little … Continue reading Comments Off
addiction and Celebrate Freedom Dinner and Culture and Education and Events and Food and Dining and Healing Place and Health and Laurie Dhue and Louisville and LoUnique and media and Non-Profits and Politics and Rick 8:02 am
On Friday, the Healing Place holds its annual Celebrate Freedom Dinner. Laurie Dhue, a former cable TV news anchor who appeared on MSNBC, CNN and Fox, will be there to talk about her personal journey and recovery from addiction.
Laurie Dhue
She will be a guest on my podcast, the Rusty Satellite Show, and I’m looking forward to speaking with her. If you don’t know about the work of The Healing Place, you should. Addiction is not pretty, and ruins more lives than you can imagine. I went to the Celebrate Freedom Dinner a few years ago, when the actress Ashley Judd spoke about her battles with addiction. She didn’t speak that night as an acclaimed actress, but as a recovering, humble addict.
If you’re not aware of how big the problem of addiction is, and how much it’s growing, consider what’s going on at the Healing Place. They’re undergoing a $20 million expansion, the need for services growing due to the heroin epidemic. Yes, the same heroin problem that Kentucky legislators are addressing this session, the one that doesn’t discriminate. The fastest-growing segment of the organization’s needy — 18-25 year-old heroin addicts from Louisville’s East End.
If you’d like to go to Friday’s event, click here for ticket info.
An Op-Ed in the Courier-Journal this week, written by Development Project Manager Laci Comer, illustrates the need:
The Healing Place is needed now more than ever. The heroin epidemic is exploding. Heroin addicts make up 96 percent of those coming in to detox. Our fastest growing population: 18 to 25-year-olds from Louisville’s East End and Oldham County. Heroin is one of the biggest reasons that we are expanding our men’s campus in downtown Louisville —we just can’t keep up with the demand for services.
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Dr. James Ramsey and Education and Metro and Shirley Willihnganz and University of Louisville 4:35 pm
The top two officials at the University of Louisville received a combined $4.2 million in deferred compensation from the U of L Foundation last year, according to tax documents filed by the university. That is separate from their reported income … Continue reading Comments Off
Education and government and Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System and Metro and pension crisis 7:00 am
Legislation to allow the Kentucky Teachers Retirement System to issue $3.3 billion in bonds — shoring up the underfunded pension plan for 140,000 active and retired teachers — passed the state House Appropriations and Revenue Committee on Tuesday and will now head … Continue reading Comments Off
Accountability and Education and James Ramsey and Metro and Robert Hughes and Steve Wilson and University of Louisville 1:08 pm
*Correction appended Recent tensions within the University of Louisville’s board of trustees over governance of university functions are expected to get at least some airing this afternoon, as members of the oversight body gather for their monthly meeting. But a … Continue reading Comments Off
Dr. Shirley Willihnganz and Education and Metro and University of Louisville 11:57 am
Shirley Willihnganz, executive vice president and provost of the University of Louisville, announced this morning she is stepping down after 13 years in the position. Willihnganz will officially leave the post at the end of this academic school year. A veteran of … Continue reading Comments Off
Education and EnterpriseCORP and JCPS and Junior Achievement 4:42 pm
On Jan. 19, more than 500 students in 13 Louisville high schools started a 13-week program called JA Company, a joint venture between GLI’s EnterpriseCorp and Junior Achievement. JA Company has been around since the beginning of Junior Achievement, but this … Continue reading Comments Off
000 Degrees and 55 and Education and NowSourcing 3:53 pm
If you’re still paying off student loans, it can be easy to question the worth of that fancy piece of paper hanging on your wall. But your grandparents were right when they urged you to stay in school and not … Continue reading Comments Off