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Sylvia Goodman

Chicago, Louisville

KY Capitol Reporter at WFPL-FM (Louisville, KY)

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  • 6 days ago | lpm.org | Sylvia Goodman |Joe Sonka

    Three recent University of Louisville graduates who received international visas through the school authorizing them to stay and work in their fields have had their legal status terminated by the Department of Homeland Security. A spokesman for the university confirmed Friday to Kentucky Public Radio that their visa database records had been terminated, a week after being asked if enrolled students or those in work placement programs have had visas pulled.

  • 6 days ago | lpm.org | Sylvia Goodman

    Jessica Henninger’s three younger children attend a school run by the Department of Defense Education Activity. That agency oversees 161 schools globally, including in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where the Henningers live. “My husband fights for our constitutional rights and our freedoms in this country, and to see those rights being taken away from my children was just absolutely something that I could not abide,” Henninger said.

  • 1 week ago | lpm.org | Sylvia Goodman

    Twelve students in Department of Defense-run schools on military bases are suing the agency for alleged book removals and curricular changes they say violates their First Amendment rights. Led by the ACLU, two of the families involved in the lawsuit live in Kentucky and attend the Barsanti Elementary School in Fort Campbell as well as families based in Virginia, Italy and Japan.

  • 1 week ago | lpm.org | Sylvia Goodman

    As he touted President Donald Trump’s latest executive orders propping up the country’s “beautiful clean coal” industry, Senate President Robert Stivers of Manchester said that “the assumption” that fossil fuels contribute to climate change “is subject to debate.”The debate over anthropogenic climate change is not between climate scientists.

  • 2 weeks ago | hoptownchronicle.org | Sylvia Goodman

    For the first time in 2024, the Kentucky General Assembly put a cap on the funds the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs can use to match federal disaster funding when the president declares a disaster or emergency. Since then, Kentucky has seen five emergency or major disaster declarations — including two active disasters. As a result, Democratic Gov.

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21 Dec 24

A petition is going around based on my reporting Thursday, that an LMPD officer cited a pregnant women for street camping while she was in labor and waiting for an ambulance https://t.co/XAezRhMRCX

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19 Dec 24

RT @jess_m_clark: As she walked toward the street to wait for help, [LMPD's] Stewart yelled at her to stop. “Am I being detained?” she ask…

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7 Nov 24

RT @mckennahorsley: The Friday agenda for the Interim Joint Committee on Education includes DEI discussion with @KCTCS and looking at the "…