GLP report shows hits and misses for Louisville 15 years after merger
By Mickey Meece | Posted on March 26, 2019Fifteen years ago, Louisville was a year removed from its momentous merger with Jefferson County. On Tuesday, the Greater Louisville Project released its 2018 Competitive City Update: Fifteen Years Beyond Merger, which examines how Metro Louisville fared against its peer cities. There has been...
Trainer: Gun owners should still take safety courses
By Kentucky Press News Service | Posted on March 18, 2019By Dave Thompson | The Paducah Sun When Kentucky’s new concealed carry law goes into effect, residents will generally be able to carry a concealed weapon with no required safety training or licensing. Senate Bill 150, which Gov. Matt Bevin signed last week, allows...
Over 300 volunteers participate in Louisville’s annual homeless street count
By Joe Sonka | Posted on January 31, 2019Approximately 325 volunteers walked the streets of Louisville in a sub-zero wind chill early Thursday morning, taking part in the annual homeless street count of the Coalition for the Homeless. Conducted each January to verify the number of people sleeping outdoors in Louisville, the...
Thayer files bill that would end Louisville’s needs-based model for syringe exchange
By Joe Sonka | Posted on January 10, 2019State Sen. Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown, filed legislation Wednesday that would require local health departments with a syringe exchange to operate on a one-for-one exchange model, thus forcing Louisville to end its need-based model that is widely held to be the best practice among public...
City details partners and plan for spending over $500,000 on homeless services
By Joe Sonka | Posted on January 2, 2019Mayor Greg Fischer on Wednesday revealed his administration’s plan to spend over $500,000 in surplus funds on partner organizations providing temporary storage and shelter services to the homeless through the end of this fiscal year. In its last meeting of the year in December,...
Sports show donates house, raises money for Black Lives Matter program
By Michael L. Jones | Posted on December 18, 2018Hosts of the “Main Event Sports Radio” donated a vacant west Louisville home to Black Lives Matter Louisvilleās housing program during a live taping of the show at the Toonerville Deli in Old Louisville on Monday night. “Main Event Sports Radio” is a local...
The Healing Place’s new facility will increase bed capacity for homeless men in recovery
By Michael L. Jones | Posted on December 3, 2018The Healing Place's new men's facility will increases its capacity to help homeless men recover from drug addiction but it still might not be enough.
New director of South Louisville Community Ministries brings community-building skills from Senegal
By Michael L. Jones | Posted on October 17, 2018South Louisville Community Ministries Director Clare Rutz Wallace brings international development experience to south Louisville.
14th annual Doulapalooza joins the Douglass Loop Farmers Market on Saturday
By Sara Havens | Posted on October 17, 2018Doulapalooza is a way for expecting mothers to interact with Louisville-area doulas and garner more information, make more connections.
Kim Moore draws on her history of addiction and substance abuse to help save others
By Michael L. Jones | Posted on October 1, 2018Kim Moore will celebrate a prodigious anniversary on Oct. 5. The day marks 20 years without drugs or alcohol for the mother of four, who spent much of the 1990s with a crack addiction bad enough that her children had to live with other...