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Postcard From Louisville

Amanda Erickson

Apr 3, 2012

A former bookkeeper embezzled more than $300,000 from nuns and other news.

In Louisville:

The city is trying to figure out what to do with all of its empty houses.
A former bookkeeper embezzled more than $300,000 from nuns to buy herself a new car.
The city is touting its social media operations as being one of the best in the country, according to a recent ranking (which we wrote about yesterday).

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post mistakenly placed a shooting that occurred in Lexington in Louisville. We apologize for the error.

Photo by John Sommers II/Reuters.

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Amanda Erickson is a former senior associate editor at CityLab.

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