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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

good to see growth in the Bardstown Road vape scene

Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Pat Smith (Citystate Podcast) and Michael Schnuerle (Streets for People, Friends of Bardstown Road, and Highlands Douglas NA) talk about the pros and cons of roundabouts and the new proposal from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for a roundabout at Douglass Loop open.spotify.com/episode/6To3...

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#108 Roundabout Repartee

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Douglas Loop roundabout concept from KYTC.. Its gonna be a no from me dawg... roundabouts are for cars

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"Troy LeBlanc, who calls himself 'lord of bourbon and vape' on Instagram, owns a chain of vape stores called Derb E Cigs"

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

we're investing in broken third party apps and AI nonsense to replace city services - image from Councilwoman Chappell IG

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

damn they got us on Flock down maps.deflock.org?lat=38.2172&...

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

wHy IsN't TrAnSiT SeLf-SuFfiCiEnT

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

another one down!! thank you Can Opener™

Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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Remembering Mark E. Smith on his birthday. Here are The Fall performing Big New Prinz live on Tony Wilson's The Other Side of Midnight in 1988

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

"The Newest Front in America’s Supermarket War Is…Kentucky?" t.co/1Cp1CVlNb9

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

in 20+ years of living here I have never once heard anyone call this building the milk carton "Locally it’s known as the 'milk carton' because of the slanted shape prominent on its upper floors." www.archpaper.com/2026/02/loui...

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

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Hello to everyone sharing this — I have a newsletter called Torched, it's all about LA and megaevents and Casey Wasserman, and you should *really* subscribe

torched.la

Torched

So LA doesn't get burned

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

meet me at the publicly subsidized chain restaurant

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

the 'berg walking into Middletown Rooster's after announcing three hypothetical office-to-hotel conversions and a $7 million Mitch-assist for the Belvedere

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a man in a military uniform with a lot of medals on his chest .

ALT: a man in a military uniform with a lot of medals on his chest .

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Rooster's is the Louisville Tea Party's Vincenzo's

Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

lol a NIMBY-for-mayor that local media has portrayed as a heroic whistleblower posted this message from a council person to their "government watchdog" FB site and its the most accurate thing on Metro's violation of the fair housing act that's been put on the internet to date

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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In the last couple years, VanMoof, RadPower, iGO Electric, Dost Bikes, EBC, and Propella have all gone bankrupt. As bad as that sounds, e-bike market consolidation was inevitable after initially torrid growth. Look at all the car companies that existed ~1910. fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/h...

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

cumulative domestic migration of each US county, from 2020 to 2024 from John Johnson bluebookmke.substack.com/p/where-amer...

Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

i love how this piece of journalism presupposes that the reader is driving a car and is absolutely not a pedestrian

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

can we unpack the CJ's use of "unwanted development" in this story?

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Piper Hansen @piperjhansen.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

major job loss incoming at blueoval sk in kentucky as ford announces a pivot to ... using the facilities in glendale for battery energy storage systems instead of ev batteries. 'tis developing, i may have more soon but for now, new from moi: www.kentucky.com/news/busines...

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Ford to lay off 1,600 as it repurposes BlueOval SK for energy storage in KY

Ford Motor Co. is planning to repurpose its battery manufacturing capacity and facilities in Kentucky.

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

rainy day demolition work on the former Urban Government Center.... abandoned by Louisville Metro a decade ago

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

tucking this image of the official "2017 Colonial Gardens Redevelopment Groundbreaking hat with the Dan Johnson embroidery signature" here for safekeeping

Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

they gentrified Bologna sandwiches

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

continuing the Gatlinburgization of a historic neighborhood in Louisville

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 09/08/2025

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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.

bit.ly

Memoir of a Mailman

A new book describes the challenges and joys of life as a letter carrier.

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 07/08/2025

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

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

"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...

Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

celebrating over a decade of the Fiesta Bonita dinner special at El Tarasco on Preston

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Tessa Duvall @tessaduvall.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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...

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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.

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Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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...

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Sons of Good Fathers, by Jonathon Sturgeon

On some killings in Kentucky

Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

"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. "

Pat Smith @cityresearch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

me when the Cards are down any amount of points