Justin Hicks
Data Reporter at Louisville Public Media
Data Reporter ("Keeper of the Code") at @WFPLNews / @LouPubMedia / @KentuckyCIR
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1 week ago |
lpm.org | Justin Hicks
On a warm May afternoon in Mount Washington, Kentucky, artist Diego Miró-Rivera and his pal Zane Giordano arrived from Austin, Texas. They drove around looking for what they call “juiced up” trees. “Juiced up is, that on one side of the tree, you can see more than 100 cicadas on it,” Miró-Rivera explained. Miró-Rivera makes art that’s huge and composed of thousands of cicada shells. The shells are hung on burlap canvas and arranged in dense patterns, so he needs lots of them.
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1 week ago |
lpm.org | Justin Hicks
Five years ago, Louisville was awash in protests. Louisville police officers had killed Breonna Taylor during a surprise nighttime raid in March. Just two months later, George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis. Through it all, in downtown Louisville stood an oversized marble statue of the last French king: Louis XVI. On the first night of protests, a man hung off Louis’ outstretched hand, breaking it off. Over time, protesters added layers of anti-police graffiti.
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2 weeks ago |
lpm.org | Justin Hicks
During Black Lives Matter demonstrations in 2020, Louisville protestors graffitied an aging statue of King Louis XVI. The Louisville Metro Council budgeted hundreds of thousands to repair it, without consulting the city's Commission on Public Art. Commission head Chris Reitz spoke with LPM's Justin Hicks about why he's resigning over the issue. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Chris, I’ve seen photos of the current state of the statue and graffiti on it.
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2 weeks ago |
lpm.org | Justin Hicks
Kentucky Public Radio’s Justin Hicks has been reporting on the tornadoes from London, Kentucky this week. On Tuesday, he sat down with managing editor Ryan Van Velzer to debrief on what he saw and what we know about the disaster so far. Van Velzer: In the days since the storms, the National Weather Service has said there were about a half dozen tornadoes all around Kentucky, a lot of them in pretty rural areas.
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2 weeks ago |
lpm.org | Justin Hicks
At a mobile home park near the London-Corbin airport on Monday, chainsaws whirred away at snapped tree limbs, augers drilled holes for new telephone poles and heavy machinery hummed as they pushed tornado debris into large piles. Everyone with an able body was put to work, helping recover from a tornado that claimed the lives of nearly two dozen Kentuckians over the weekend and left others critically injured.
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