Lily Burris
Investigative ReporterLily works on LPM's Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting team covering issues related to wealth and poverty in the state. She is also a corps member with Report For America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms.
In 2022, before coming to LPM, Lily served as a tornado recovery reporter for WKMS. She became intimately familiar with the devastation that hit western Kentucky communities in December 2021, covering everything from funding and rebuilding to language barriers and environmental impacts.
Lily has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Western Kentucky University and served as editor-in-chief of the College Heights Herald, WKU’s student-run newspaper. She also completed an internship with LPM in summer 2021 and produced a story about sewage odors in Louisville’s historically underserved communities.
Email Lily at lburris@lpm.org.
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As spring temperatures go up, there’s help for utility bills through nonprofit offices across Kentucky. People who earn an income near the poverty line — about $3,200 a month for a family of four — are eligible. -
A new bill easing some of last year’s changes to Kentucky unemployment system passed out of a legislative committee.
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On Dec. 10, 2021, a series of more than 20 tornadoes swept through western and central Kentucky, taking than 80 lives and damaging hundreds of homes.
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Judge Mary Shaw, who signed the warrant that led to the death of Breonna Taylor, has been defeated by challenger Tracy Davis.
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Disclosures filed by judges and candidates for judicial office don’t reveal much about the candidates’ financial holdings, while gaps in oversight and lax enforcement make it difficult to hold judges accountable for potential conflicts of interest that might come up in court.
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Hundreds gathered to receive a free instrument as part of one music group’s western Kentucky tornado relief effort.
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Gov. Beshear said the next big steps will be to rebuild and work with nonprofits and other organizations to get people in housing.
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At least 11 deaths have been reported in Warren County, and parts of Bowling Green suffered major damage when a tornado with winds of up to 150 miles per…
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Nearly all the high-complaint ZIP codes are in the West End, which is predominantly Black, historically underserved and closest to the wastewater treatment plant.
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Zach Harting and Andrej Barna will represent the United States and Serbia respectively in Tokyo when the games start in July.
