Kentucky: Living large, but lying low on the dole

by E Wayne Ross on July 20, 2008

Courier-Journal: Living large, but lying low on the dole

My first thought upon reading that the bulk of a $694,000 federal grant being overseen by a former University of Louisville employee was paid to a nonprofit Illinois center that was dissolved a year before U of L became involved was this:
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Man, I just haven’t been thinking large enough.

For years I’ve been living on an annual salary, some decent benefits, and a nice vacation package. Here’s the federal government chucking $694,000 to a program administered by Robert Felner, former dean of U of L’s College of Education and Human Development — that no local or state education officials had ever heard of.