The Flynn File: Cutting the crap one story at a time.

Chuck Olmstead – Dead at 60

A local news icon has passed away. Chuck Olmstead (pronounced by a friend of my as Chuck OOOOOLLLLLLMSted) covered nearly every facet of news in Kentuckiana. He won several awards (both local and national) for a series of reports that gave viewers a rare look inside the Ft Knox Gold vault…these were featured on the Discovery Channel.

Chuck was a true newsman…a no-nonsense, just the facts ma'am kind of guy. He will be truly missed. Chuck died after complications from a recent brain aneurism. Chuck had reported for WHAS-11 News since 1975.

UPDATE:  WHAS11 has posted a video clip montage of the lighter side of Chuck Olmstead...watch it here

Chuck Olmstead Bio – WHAS11 News

Full story – WAVE3 News

Stinson actions deplorable, indefensible…

Now for a little local news. The legal mess for PRP football coach Jason Stinson continues. He called his players cowards and denied them water breaks until Max Gilpin passed out and subsequently died.

This man is still on the JCPS payroll, which illustrates the clear state of disarray the schools here are in.

The principal (who deleted emails from critical parents regarding the incident), the coach, and the Superintendent all need to be fired. We need to clean house in Jefferson County and ensure this sort of inaction and subsequent coverup never happen again.

The deplorable part is the defense team saying the death wasn't caused by the coaches inaction, but rather because the deceased student was taking an ADHD medication…WTF…talk about insult to injury for the parents!

 

Read more here and here.

LG&E billing change…or how E-ON will fund Kentucky Derby Festival sponsorship?

THIS is the LG&E (E-ON actually) billing change in regards to natural gas service that is in the notes section of my bill this month. 

Changing the bill due date from 15 days from issue to 12 days is un-necessary and in bad faith for consumers.  While I understand we all live in the world of a credit crisis, what appears to be an oncoming economic depression, and way too many bank bailouts...we do not need utilities to begin shaping billing policies under guidelines similar to what the banking and credit card industries have done for years...short statement to payment due date cycles to maximize profit from late fee assessments.  15 days is sufficient time to pay a bill, 12 days IS NOT.

E-ON offers no ability to receive notification of my amount due via email, text message, or voicemail....I travel extensively for work and this matters to me, as I am sure it does to many others.  I might be gone for 10-12 days at a time and am unable to check my PO BOX for my bill....why should I have to pay a late charge of 5% that amounts to nothing but pure profit for E-ON?

E-ON recently announced its sponsorship of the Kentucky Derby Festival (KDF)...really?  E-ON US is still a public company regulated by the PSC, right? Didn't E-ON just absorb massive costs from the two greatest storms in the history Kentucky? Didn't E-ON recently have its request for a rate increase (THANKFULLY) all but denied by the PSC? Yes, customers will be paying for the storm repairs over the next 5 years, that is understandable...but this billing change appears to constitute the profit that E-ON US will be using to fund all or part or all of its sponsorship of the KDF.

I love the Kentucky Derby Festival as much as the next Kentucky native, but I do not wish for my utility company to fund it.

E-ON should be forced to drop it's LG&E dba name....LG&E represented a fair company that served our community & it's employees well.  E-ON represents a large conglomerate based in Europe that sees it's employees as expendable and does the minimum necessary to meet federal, state, and local standards...the 2 companies (in respect to the way they are run) are polar opposites.

FYI - I do not work for E-ON.

I urge consumers NOT ACCEPT THIS! Email the KY Public Service Commission (the regulatory agency of utility companies in Kentucky) at psc.consumer.inquiry@ky.gov to complain!