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NEW | Wendell Berry, the great Kentucky writer who came home and stayed, dies at 92. From a cabin beside the Kentucky River, Berry wrote about land, community, belonging and small things that turned out to be big. wdrb.com/news/crawford-wende…
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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Full email below
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Louisville as an 8 means the committee had them somewhere 29-32 on their seed list.
There's literally not a metric on their team sheet that is that low.
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She told a police officer she was in labor. The Louisville Metro Police Department lieutenant cited her for unlawful camping as the ambulance arrived. She had a baby later that day. lpm.org/news/2024-12-19/preg…
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In a now-deleted tweet, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg announces that the city is signing a federal consent decree on policing reform. U.S. Department of Justice press conference is scheduled to start at 11:30am. @WFPLNews
Louisville signs consent decree, starting lengthy police reform effort lpm.org/news/2024-12-12/loui…
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The Arthur Street Hotel in Louisville hosts guests without requiring mental health or substance use treatment. Two years in, they've gotten 200 people into permanent housing. @byrobertor and @jonpcherry take you inside. lpm.org/hotel
Gaming the system...
Most of the first 26 businesses to win Kentucky medical cannabis cultivator and processor licenses from its lottery system are tied to marijuana companies based in other states, one of which likely submitted hundreds of applications. lpm.org/news/2024-11-25/kent…
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Kentucky nonprofit hits ‘pause’ on controversial $1.3 million land deal in Somerset four days after Kentucky Public Radio first reported on the land deal. Local journalism with impact from @joesonka lpm.org/news/2024-10-22/kent…
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BPR Briefing: Here's what you need to know from Sunday, September 29. If you missed today's 4 p.m. Buncombe County press briefing, we'll be airing that again overnight on BPR News and BPR Classic in English and Spanish.
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TARC is facing a massive $30 mil shortfall, and Louisville's public bus service could take a major hit. Route cuts and worse bus frequency are both on the table.
Here's what to know about how we got here, and how you can still weigh in today and tomorrow: lpm.org/news/2024-09-18/loui…
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Somebody makes a claim. You go see if it’s true. In this case it is not.
It’s tempting just to accept a claim when it fits your side’s narrative.
It’s also tempting just to reject a claim when it doesn’t fit!
Better to check.
The @WSJ is particularly good at this.
Why we need professional journalists: @JDVance rep tells @wsj about Anna Kilgore, a Springfield OH woman whose cat went missing in August, so @Kris_Maher drives to her house. She found the cat in her basement and apologized to her Haitian neighbors.
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U.S. Army statement confirms NPR @QuilLawrence report of a physical altercation at Arlington: employee “who attempted” to get the Trump campaign to follow the cemetery rules “was abruptly pushed aside.”
The “employee and her professionalism has been unfairly attacked.”
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From NPR’s @QuilLawrence: Arlington National Cemetery officials say Trump campaign staff verbally abused and pushed aside cemetery official who objected to filming and photography at gravesites
More below and to follow on NPR
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A just-released UofL study found that residents living near more trees showed better heart health levels than those with fewer trees.
Last month I talked with a local conservation leader about a citywide tree plan in the works: lpm.org/news/2024-07-31/cons…
UofL's groundbreaking Green Heart Louisville Project, launched by @UofLEnvirome, has found that people living in neighborhoods with more trees and shrubs showed lower levels of a blood marker of inflammation than those living outside the planted areas. uofl.me/3MmHMq3
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NEW: Judge Reed O'Connor has recused himself from one of Elon Musk's lawsuits, against the coalition of advertisers. This comes after NPR reported on Reed's investment in Tesla and Musk's forum-shopping by filing in Reed's district, where none of the parties are based.
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Do you think the public should know how much bills are estimated to cost as they move through the Kentucky General Assembly? Lawmakers can keep those estimates "confidential" and hide them from the public whose tax dollars they are spending. From @JoeSonka lpm.org/news/2024-08-01/conf…
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EXCLUSIVE >>> A secret investigation pursued CIA intelligence indicating Egypt's president sought to illegally inject $10 million into @realDonaldTrump 's cash-starved 2016 campaign.@TheJusticeDept investigators discovered a mysterious $10M cash withdrawal.
But they were blocked from seeking key records to determine if Trump took the money, then the case was shut down. @byaaroncdavis & me.
washingtonpost.com/investiga…