Sunday, July 17, 2011
Louisville Leaders Want Lawsuit Dropped
- {Kentucky}...Leaders in Louisville are asking the River Fields conservation group to end a lawsuit against the Ohio River Bridges Project between Kentucky and Indiana. Humana co-founder David Jones Sr. likens the group's opposition to those who prevented Reynolds Metals Co. from building an office building in eastern Jefferson County in the late 1950s. Reynolds later left for Richmond, Virginia. Leaders in Louisville say the group is delaying progress, but Lee Cory, president of River Fields' board of trustees, says the group's board is unified in its support for the lawsuit, River Fields is a citizen group exercising its right to hold the government accountable, and River Fields hasn't delayed any part of the project. Cory says the slow-moving venture has languished because of a lack of funding. She says that since there's no injunction in the case, officials have been free to proceed with the project all along. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has asked be allowed to intervene in the lawsuit.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 11:03 PM 
