Louisville Metro Council request for ethics review of colleague misses mark

Louisville Public Media | By Jacob Ryan Ethics officials said they were puzzled by a Metro Council resolution asking them to review council member Anthony Piagentini’s involvement in a $40 million grant the council gave a local nonprofit. Louisville Metro Ethics Commission officials said Wednesday they can’t do anything with a Metro Council resolution asking them to review…

Kentucky House approves bill setting special elections for Louisville Metro Council vacancies

by Marcus Green LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Vacant seats on Louisville’s Metro Council would primarily be filled through special elections rather than appointments under a bipartisan bill that cleared the Kentucky House on Tuesday. House Bill 191, sponsored by Republican Rep. Jared Bauman of Louisville, passed 99-0 and now heads to the Senate. The measure…