An audio documentary and investigation exploring the failures in the state and federal government’s attempt to clean up debris left by catastrophic flooding in July 2022.
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Researchers with the Vera Institute for Justice found the expansion in Kentucky’s criminal justice system has coincided with economic decline as coal and manufacturing jobs left the state.
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Reporters for the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting and Louisville Public Media spent months digging into the dirty business of disaster cleanup.
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The third day of the ethics trial for Louisville Metro Council’s top Republican focused largely on how the COVID-19 relief grant was awarded in 2022 to the nonprofit that gave him a job.
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A group of council members want the Louisville Metro Housing Authority to do a better job maintaining its catalog of complexes, specifically the 685-unit Dosker Manor.
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The Metro Council’s top Republican Anthony Piagentini says he did not use his official position to get a job with the nonprofit that he helped get a COVID-19 relief grant.
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Council member Anthony Piagentini faces seven counts of breaking local ethics laws. His public trial started today.
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The former investigative reporter will lead the five-journalist team covering civic accountability issues across Kentucky.
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One of Louisville Metro’s largest allocations from the American Rescue Plan Act went to an organization that wants to use it for a health care training center. A lack of city oversight created an opportunity for a former official with no ties to the project to profit.
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Kentucky officials defended the state-managed cleanup of eastern Kentucky’s devastating flooding during a legislative meeting on Tuesday, and largely avoided addressing miscommunication and ballooning costs that have taken place during the process.
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A report obtained by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting from the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services offers new details into what happened at Brooklawn, a foster care facility in Louisville, the day that 7-year-old Ja’Ceon Terry died last July.