Morgan Watkins

Louisville

Health Reporter at Louisville Public Media

Health Reporter at WFPL-FM (Louisville, KY)

Health reporter @LouPubMedia and @WFPLNews. Formerly @courierjournal and @GainesvilleSun. She/her.

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Greenberg faults: Controversial tennis, pickleball project cancelled

5 days ago | lpm.org | Morgan Watkins

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg on Friday said a wave of community opposition against the plan to build an expansive tennis and pickleball facility at Joe Creason Park changed his stance on the project. He said the facility will not be built at the park that borders the Louisville Nature Center and city zoo.
Louisville mayor improperly impedes access to emails about Joe Creason Park tennis complex, experts say

5 days ago | lpm.org | Morgan Watkins

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg’s administration subverted the Kentucky Open Records Act when it refused to provide correspondence between city officials and a private nonprofit pushing a controversial development plan, according to experts in state records law. A proposal backed by Greenberg to build a tennis and pickleball complex at Joe Creason Park is getting pushback from many local residents.
Listen: Neighbors rally against Joe Creason Park proposal

1 week ago | lpm.org | Morgan Watkins

The fight over the future of Joe Creason Park intensified Tuesday evening when several hundred people showed up to protest an informational meeting hosted by the group that wants to build an expansive tennis and pickleball complex. The proposed, mayor-backed project is causing deep divisions across Louisville’s upper Highlands area enclave.
Controversial project could be future home of Bellarmine tennis, records show

1 week ago | lpm.org | Morgan Watkins

The renderings show a row of dark-red tennis courts. In one sketch, designers marked where the Bellarmine tennis teams’ lockers rooms and storage would be. One slide indicated the facility would be the future “home” of Bellarmine tennis. Together, records obtained by KyCIR show a proposed – and controversial – tennis and pickleball facility was designed, at least at one point, to directly support Bellarmine University’s tennis programs.
Why two Kentucky utilities sought coal pollution exemption from Trump, but others didn’t

2 weeks ago | wkyufm.org | Morgan Watkins

President Donald Trump offered to cut coal plants a break on a significant air pollution rule. When President Donald Trump’s administration invited power plants to apply in March for an exemption to new federal restrictions on dangerous pollutants like mercury, the East Kentucky Power Cooperative went for it. EKPC applied for – and received – a two-year exemption for both its coal-fired operations, the H.L. Spurlock Station in Mason County and the John Sherman Cooper Station in Pulaski County.
Why two Kentucky utilities sought coal pollution exemption from Trump, but others didn’t

2 weeks ago | lpm.org | Morgan Watkins

When President Donald Trump’s administration invited power plants to apply in March for an exemption to new federal restrictions on dangerous pollutants like mercury, the East Kentucky Power Cooperative went for it. EKPC applied for – and received – a two-year exemption for both its coal-fired operations, the H.L. Spurlock Station in Mason County and the John Sherman Cooper Station in Pulaski County.
Stink city: Louisville sewer boss says odor work ongoing

3 weeks ago | lpm.org | Morgan Watkins

The stench of rotten eggs is so thick sometimes that Yvette Johnson said she wears a mask inside her Park DuValle home. Other times, the smell wakes her up at night. She said she closes her toilets and stuffs a towel in the sink “so things won’t escape into the air.”“I don't even try to burn incense to cover it up, because I think that would make it even worse,” she said. “I have an air filter in my house.
U.S. Rep. Andy Barr joins battle for McConnell Senate seat

3 weeks ago | wvxu.org | Morgan Watkins

U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, a Republican first elected to Congress in 2012 to represent Lexington and more than a dozen of the surrounding counties, announced Tuesday he is running for the seat that will be vacant when Sen. Mitch McConnell retires. When the influential Kentucky Republican announced he would not seek an eighth term in office, it sent off a flurry of activity within the state's GOP circles, as the seat has not seen a serious Republican primary in years.
Oldham Countians wrestle with ICE partnership

1 month ago | lpm.org | Morgan Watkins

For many years, Michael Slider said he hasn’t thought much about the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. “But now they've turned into some modern-day Gestapo, and I don't want to have anything to do with them, and I don't want my community to have anything to do with them,” he said. Slider lives in Oldham County and leads a local group called Kentucky Citizens for Democracy.
Trans Kentuckians ‘let joy dwell alongside’ pain amid new anti-trans laws, rhetoric

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Morgan Watkins

People gathered by the Big Four Bridge last week for a Trans Day of Visibility rally. Event organizers placed fake tombstones to represent a funeral for bigotry and oppressive systems. (Morgan Watkins/LPM News)Two new state laws targeting transgender Kentuckians are taking effect this year, building on a pattern the Kentucky legislature has established over the past few years of proposing and sometimes enacting laws that target LGBTQ+ Kentuckians.

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