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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Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg recommended local lawmakers divert $40 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds from a local health care nonprofit and move them to city parks and libraries.
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The Metro Council Republican says he will fight the commission’s ruling that he violated ethics laws. Anthony Piagentini said the Louisville Metro Ethics Commission members were biased against him and their investigation lacked the evidence needed to find he violated laws.
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The Louisville Metro Ethics Commission ruled Thursday that the Republican council member’s involvement in a COVID-19 relief grant violated six different ethics rules.
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A family said a property manager failed to repair their home’s air conditioner. Their son died after he spent the night in the family’s car to beat the heat. Now, a local lawmaker wants to strengthen the city’s outdated housing code.
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The city’s ethics commission won’t decide if Metro Council Member Anthony Piagentini broke ethics laws for at least another week. The commission first needs a copy of additional records and a transcript of the trial.
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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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Council member Anthony Piagentini faces seven counts of breaking local ethics laws. His public trial started today.
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Jefferson County Public School officials say they have several short and long term solutions to address the issues that led to delayed buses on the first day of school.
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Federal disaster assistance can be offered to individuals through the Small Business Administration, but many eastern Kentuckians recovering from the July 2022 floods don’t qualify. And many who do are hesitant to take on the loan.
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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.