With completion of the $238 million KFC Yum! Center just two months away, The Courier-Journal reports arena officials are confident that downtown parking spaces will be plentiful because 12,000 office workers will seamlessly vacate their workday spots just in time for the arrival of U of L basketball ticket holders. Our prediction: Main Street will be clogged like the Colonel’s arteries; human sacrifice; dogs and cats living together; mass hysteria; a Final Four victory.

Because most of LEO’s readership procures its drinking water from rooftop rain collectors/certified organic fair trade clouds, you may not have noticed the funky flavor dominating Louisville’s tap water. The apparently harmless, taste-altering chemical, 2-methylisoborneol, is produced by the death of toxic algae, which is the name of a band we’re starting. Just don’t drink water from the Ohio River or any local lake and you should be fine.

Part of the reason for that algae bloom? It’s called “climate change,” and it’s already given Louisville the distinction of being the hottest city in the United States this year. For 73 days, the River City — which also sports the country’s fifth-worst carbon footprint — withstood above-average temperatures that surpassed every habitable zone in the nation. On the bright side, what doesn’t kill you can just make you really sweaty.

Independent mayoral candidate, avid cyclist and small-business owner Jackie Green is speaking out against the Kentucky Economic Development Cabinet’s $7 million handout to an Australian energy company, which will create a paltry 17 jobs locally. “Louisville needs to attract manufacturers of solar panels to Louisville (creating local jobs)” said Green via a statement, “install those panels on our roofs (creating more jobs), and keep Louisville energy dollars in Louisville.”