Sylvia Goodman
Capitol ReporterSylvia Goodman is Kentucky Public Radio’s Capitol reporter, and has covered the state's politics and government since 2023. While a student at Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, she interned with the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Public Media. After graduating in 2022, she wrote for the Chronicle of Higher Education in Washington DC as a reporting fellow before moving back to Louisville, her hometown. Email Sylvia at sgoodman@lpm.org and follow her on Bluesky at @sylviaruthg.lpm.org.
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In a massive audit released Wednesday, the Republican state auditor accused the Kentucky Department of Education of allowing millions in school funding needlessly lapse. -
Two of Kentucky’s GOP congressional delegation were among the few to jump party lines to vote against the Republican tax and spending bill in the Senate and House, drawing anger from the president. -
GOP Senate hopeful Nate Morris called Sen. Mitch McConnell “the nastiest politician in the history of America” at his first major campaign event in Shepherdsville. -
The Kentucky Hospital Association says proposed Medicaid cuts in the Senate that would limit state-directed payments endanger thousands of Kentucky jobs and could force hospitals to close. -
Dozens of Kentucky laws passed earlier this year will take effect today. Here’s a look at 14 of them. -
Congress is considering major cuts to SNAP food assistance benefits. They could have an outsized impact in Appalachian Kentucky, where more than one in five rely on the benefits. -
Long-planned Kentucky State Capitol renovations are pushing Frankfort lawmakers into temporary chambers. The renovations are estimated to stretch for three years. -
Rare blue-ghost fireflies are generally associated with the southern Appalachian region, but researchers say their range is likely bigger than that — expanding all the way to north central Kentucky. -
While enrollment has grown at Kentucky’s public universities and the Kentucky Community and Technical college system, the state has also taken a hit to two key affordability measures. -
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Kentucky over a regulation that gives “an undocumented alien” in-state tuition if they graduated from a Kentucky high school.
