Morgan Watkins
Health & Environment ReporterMorgan Watkins is LPM's health & environment reporter. She hails from Florida, where she started her career covering city and county government at the Gainesville Sun. Louisville has been her home since 2016. She covered national and state politics, as well as higher education, for The Courier Journal before joining LPM. Email Morgan at mwatkins@lpm.org.
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Kentucky Auditor Allison Ball is examining Louisville’s Metropolitan Sewer District after Republican lawmakers asked for a review.
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Almost 25 years ago, local groups began an influential, community-led study of the air quality around Rubbertown in west Louisville. Now, they’re gearing up for a sequel.
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Louisville Public Media CEO Stephen George will step down from his role in January. LPM’s board of directors will lead the transition to and selection of a new leader.
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After a shooting in a high school parking lot, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg wants to enforce a 1983 city ordinance that prohibits people from wearing masks in public.
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A recent LPM News project focused on solutions Louisville groups are embracing to help young people of color get mental health support.
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Getting young people to try therapy is a challenge. Once they’re in the door, local therapists say they have to make it worthwhile for their clients to keep coming back.
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Gov. Andy Beshear questioned aspects of a new federal report that found the state of Kentucky seems to be violating the rights of people with serious mental illnesses.
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The U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday that Kentucky’s state government is unnecessarily placing Louisvillians with serious mental illnesses in psychiatric hospitals.
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A group in Louisville is working to insulate Black children from systems of oppression. Their model draws from Black culture and Pan-African ancestral methods of healing.
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Parents and health professionals met with a federal official in Louisville Thursday to discuss statewide efforts to support new mothers.