Not to be a broken record but ya girl is trying to be #LouMayor so please donate if you can and share about the #Shameka4LouisvilleMayor22 Campaign whenever you can! Always donate what you can when you can! No #bday party for me this year due to the #omicronvariant :-( pic.twitter.com/975H8DemFl — ShamekaParrishWright (@Seasoned4u) January 3, 2022 In 1969, Black people made up 13.3% of Jefferson County’s population, but owned 4.6% of the county’s businesses. Today, although the Black population has grown 22.4% its ownership of businesses with employees is 2.4% I have an INTENTIONAL plan to address this...not lip service. — Timothy Findley, Jr. (@TimFindleyJr) January 2, 2022 Thrilled to announce that UAW has thrown its strong support behind my candidacy for Mayor as our campaign
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When media companies cut costs, senior editors are the first to go
Is it racist imaging or shoddy graphics work? It's likely the latter but the entire media market suffers from even a scant trace of the former. I wonder why they didn't use our professional headshots...🤔🤔🤔@WDRBNews pic.twitter.com/ldupshQQZg — Timothy Findley, Jr. (@TimFindleyJr) November 13, 2021 Our media business is filled with underpaid young "journalists" who lack depth of perspective. Nonetheless, this unbalanced imagery is preposterously ignorant. Where is management oversight? Wow. Debating whether this is explicit or implicit bias. Either way, this is a typical narrative. @WDRBNews producers, reporters, editor should all be required to take bias training and someone at the top should apologize for this. https://t.co/ALVum1uk1Y — Sadiqa (@SadiqaReynolds) November 14, 2021 Media companies have cut payrolls so severely over the past decade that news employees
After another police officer is assassinated, Mayor Fischer proclaims Louisville safe
26-year-old Brandon Shirley, a Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputy, was shot to death while working security at a Shively car lot. Deputy Shirley's assailant has not been apprehended although Louisville Metro Police Chief Erika Shields says they have identified potential suspects. Chief Shields said the victim was targeted. “If someone is really determined to kill you, they will kill you. And that was the case here,” she said during the news briefing. “We will make an arrest,” Shields said. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer joined me on 840WHAS radio today to discuss the decorated officer's death and answer questions about protection of law enforcement and the overall safety of the city. The interview became a bit contentious as I pressed the mayor on the perception that