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2 days ago | 
courier-journal.com | Bob Heleringer
Christ the King Catholic Church, a historically Black parish in west Louisville, held its final service on April 30 after nearly a century. Demographics and finances were cited as reasons for the closure, with the property being donated to Simmons College. Former Pastor Father John Burke delivered a poignant sermon at the final Mass, reflecting on the church's history and its role in the community.
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2 weeks ago | 
courier-journal.com | Bob Heleringer
Florence Nightingale Graham, later known as Elizabeth Arden, founded a global beauty empire. Arden championed women in business, employing primarily women and paying high salaries. She achieved significant success in horseracing, winning the 1947 Kentucky Derby with Jet Pilot. “Find a need and fill it” is one of the universal tenets of the free enterprise system. Fill it well and you might get rich in the process.
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1 month ago | 
courier-journal.com | Bob Heleringer
The Catholic Education Foundation of Louisville raises more than $1.6 million at its annual fundraiser to support families struggling to afford Catholic school tuition. The organization has an ambitious plan to raise a $100 million endowment to further support students. The CEF's impact is evident in the success stories of students like Agnes Boyer, who has excelled academically and personally thanks to their assistance. There just isn’t much good news around these days — hardly anything uplifting.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
courier-journal.com | Bob Heleringer
Not that long ago, I remember a fall Sunday afternoon when I turned on an NFL game. This is usually a prelude to a nap, as I tend to fall asleep on the couch before the first commercial. My telephone rang. I answered it — perhaps someone needed a lawyer. “BOBBY! Robin J. Engel here! What are you DOING, man!” It was a command, not a question. “Actually, I was sleeping,” I drowsily replied.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
courier-journal.com | Bob Heleringer
The expensive lessons learned by Amr Zedan and Bob Baffert in these futile endeavors underscore the rather impregnable position Churchill Downs enjoys whenever someone takes the company to court. Bob HeleringerOpinion ContribtuorIn 2010, West Virginia’s Supreme Court of Appeals turned back a legal challenge to that state’s “zero tolerance standard” for prohibited medications in horses during a race. To do otherwise, the judges said, would “. . .
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
courier-journal.com | Bob Heleringer
The last time someone took Churchill Downs to Court to try to get their horse in the Kentucky Derby I was a second-year law student at U of L in 1974 (50 years ago!), I had an extraordinarily gifted law professor named David J. Leibson who taught us the , a dry, boring course about financial transactions that professor Leibson was so charismatic he almost made this lifeless subject interesting.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
courier-journal.com | Bob Heleringer
The 1913 Kentucky Derby has long been remembered for its improbable winner, Donerail, still the longest priced horse to ever win the Run for the Roses—paying $184.90 on a $2 dollar ticket. What has been largely forgotten about that Derby is who was sitting in the clubhouse that warm afternoon as a guest of Kentucky governor James B. McCreary.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
courier-journal.com | Bob Heleringer
The year was 1990. The first President George Bush was in the White House. Democrat Wallace Wilkinson was Kentucky’s governor. The number one pop song in March was Janet Jackson’s “Escapade” (“Come on baby, let’s get away . . .”) That same month, in the full flowering of legislative independence, the General Assembly, on its own volition, wrote and passed the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), a model of public education reform that had a national impact.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Bob Heleringer
Robert J. “Bobby” Martin (1928-2005) was a jockey with impressive athletic talent but was also no stranger to the stewards’ office. In 1950, his license to ride in Maryland was suspended for 10 years for betting on a horse other than the one he was riding. (Jockeys could bet on their own mounts with the wagers placed by the horse’s owner.) But, in 1955, some influential friends, including one Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr., helped Martin get reinstated in Maryland and other racing states.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
courier-journal.com | Bob Heleringer
Robert J. “Bobby” Martin (1928-2005) was a jockey with impressive athletic talent but was also no stranger to the stewards’ office. In 1950, his license to ride in Maryland was suspended for 10 years for betting on a horse other than the one he was riding. (Jockeys could bet on their own mounts with the wagers placed by the horse’s owner.) But, in 1955, some influential friends, including one Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr., helped Martin get reinstated in Maryland and other racing states.
