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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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A therapy model developed in Louisville helps kids and adults heal from emotional distress caused by repeated exposure to racism.
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The Kentucky Legislature outlawed gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender children last year. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court will scrutinize a ruling that has kept that law in effect.
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The Jefferson County Cooperative Extension has tough decisions to make after the Louisville Metro Council practically halved its funding.
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An organization based in the South has relaunched a fund that supports people of color in Kentucky who are either pregnant or within one year postpartum.
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A local research initiative welcomes families with young Black or multiracial Black children to join a new educational program focused on collective and family healing.
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Polling locations across Kentucky will open Thursday through Saturday so people can vote early in this month’s primary election.
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The 150th Run for the Roses gave thousands of visitors a classic experience at Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May.
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Spring is heating up across Kentucky, and low-income families can get help paying their air-conditioning bill through a seasonal program.
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Mayor Craig Greenberg wants to drop almost all Louisville Metro Government funding for two decades-old organizations that offer free soil tests, 4-H youth programs and other services.
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Research documents a big expansion of Kentucky’s syringe services programs, which protect people who use drugs from infections like HIV and viral hepatitis.