Managing editor of collaboratives at Louisville Public Media: Kentucky Public Radio and the Appalachia+Mid-South Newsroom: 7 NPR stations across Ky., W. Va. and Tenn. Based out of Louisville, Ky. Young Author's Greenhouse Board. Mass shooting survivor
Ryan Van Velzer
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Longtime Louisville-based environmental journalist Jim Bruggers has died. He was a mentor, and a friend to me. He was a damn good journalist and he made Kentucky a better place. @connorgiffin.bsky.social has written a beautiful story about him. www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...
Recent polling shows data centers are increasingly unpopular. That opposition was a factor in several local primary races in Kentucky where data center projects have popped up. www.lpm.org/news/2026-06...
Our latest Porch Light newsletter has stories on Kudzu, data centers, rising power bills and abandoned oil and gas wells plus, reflections on growing up feeling like an outsider in the Appalachian foothills. Check it out: mailchi.mp/appalachiami...
Kentucky Addiction Recovery Care owner Tim Robinson pleaded not guilty to three federal felony charges related to an alleged scheme to defraud multiple lenders. www.lpm.org/news/2026-06...
A coalition of Kentucky Power customers are calling for increased transparency and rate review ahead of a state audit of the far-eastern Kentucky utility company. www.lpm.org/news/2026-06...
Matt Bevin sentenced to jail time after failing to turn over financials www.lpm.org/news/2026-06...
Louisville police chief moves to fire, criminally investigate officer who fatally shot unarmed man www.lpm.org/news/2026-06...
The state-owned Lee Specialty Clinic serves 1,300 patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration has slashed its budget by millions, blaming state budget cuts. www.lpm.org/news/2026-06...
Congressman Thomas Massie led a “liberty” movement that gained power among the GOP in northern Kentucky. Is his primary defeat an anomaly, or a death knell? bit.ly/4dSTJ4a
Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has once again had an arrest warrant issued against him, this time for failing to appear in person amid his ongoing divorce and child support case. www.lpm.org/news/2026-05...
James Bruggers, whose decades of environmental reporting in Kentucky and beyond helped win cleaner air and cleaner water, is dead at 68.
Recent polling shows data centers are increasingly unpopular. That opposition was a factor in several local primary races in Kentucky where data center projects have popped up.
Kentucky Addiction Recovery Care owner Tim Robinson pleaded not guilty to three federal felony charges related to an alleged scheme to defraud multiple lenders.
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Ryan Van Velzer
Ryan Van Velzer
Bevin requested additional time, but his motion was denied by the judge hearing his divorce and child support case.
A coalition of Kentucky Power customers are calling for increased transparency and rate review ahead of a state audit of the far-eastern Kentucky utility company.
The state-owned Lee Specialty Clinic serves 1,300 patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration has slashed its budget by millions, blaming state budget...
Congressman Thomas Massie led a “liberty” movement that gained power among the GOP in northern Kentucky. Is his primary defeat an anomaly, or death knell?
Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has once again had an arrest warrant issued against him, this time for failing to appear in person amid his ongoing divorce and child support case.
