New Year’s Eve didn’t just mark the end of 2025. It was the end of an era, as Baxter Avenue Theatres — one of Louisville’s last independent cinemas — screened its final films. www.lpm.org/news/2026-01...

Let’s take a look back at some of the “On Track” conversations that shaped 2025. www.lpm.org/news/2025-12...

Workers with a Louisville nonprofit have created a collection of poems and illustrations based on the stories and lived experiences of the refugee clients they serve.

Dropped my final investigative report of 2025 this week, all about how some police will disclose where their license plate readers are tracking drivers and some won't. Expect more coverage of mass surveillance issues from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting in 2026.

I’m SO excited to listen to to this collab between great folks from @lpm.org’s newsroom and classical music station.

Classical Host Laura Atkinson and Reporter Justin Hicks trace the American musical tradition of shape note singing from colonial America up to today in an emotional, and joyful one hour radio special. www.lpm.org/news/2025-12...

You’ll hear about this a lot from me in the coming weeks and months. All of the region’s major utilities are before the Public Service Commission seeking customer rate increases. www.weku.org/the-commonwe...

Worth reading from @byrobertor.lpm.org👇

Louisville history buffs, this one's for you: www.lpm.org/podcast/curi...

A great rundown of what’s going to be a top issue for the Republican-run Kentucky Legislature next year: Powering AI data centers.

"Metro Council rarely decides to force a rezoning and for good reason: doing so opens the city up to lawsuits and accusations of infringing on private property rights." But the council might do just that for the Givaudan Sense Colour property, where an explosion killed two workers last year.

The Jefferson County Board of Education just voted to remove these planned closures from tonight’s agenda. They’ve asked staff for more information about the plan before moving forward.

#BREAKING: Frankfort Police report a suspect is in custody following a shooting on Kentucky State University's south campus Tuesday. #KSU

Had a Louisville story featured on NPR's Morning Edition today, about how our local water company tracked a spike in one type of forever chemical up the Ohio River to a West Virginia factory. You can listen here: www.npr.org/2025/12/09/n...

Louisville's police chief told internal investigators to check if an officer gave federal agents his login credentials for the city’s license plate surveillance database. The investigation was spurred by our reporting at KyCIR, which found the officer ran seemingly ICE-related searches.

Premiered in 2024, Liza Lim's concerto "A Sutured World" is the 38th winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition, a top prize in the field. LPM Director of Programming Daniel Gilliam spoke to Lim about her work and her honor. Listen in. bit.ly/3MpiElL

It's the post-Thanksgiving Giving Tuesday, and you could help the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting win our full $25,500 matching donation today! We're close to the goal. Support nonprofit, investigative news pursued in the public interest here:

Dispatch from court today:

Good piece here from @storiesbyjess.bsky.social on which kids would be most affected by JCPS' plan to chip away at a $132M budget shortfall by closing a few schools.

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and 20 other governors and attorneys general are challenging the Trump administration’s new Department of Housing and Urban Development policies in court. www.lpm.org/news/2025-11...

Good interview by @michelletyrene.bsky.social with the new leader of Americana Community Center in Louisville:

Ricky Santiago, the new executive director of Americana Community Center, talks with LPM about the financial challenges Americana has weathered, his hopes for future sustainability and the resurgence he believes the organization is making. www.lpm.org/2025-11-24/a...

Good piece from @doperle.bsky.social on the pros and cons of Kentucky's new software that lets police request - and judges deny or approve - warrants virtually instead of on paper/in person. The shift was made after problems with the search warrant that led to Breonna Taylor's death came to light.

A Republican state representative plans to file legislation that would require all Kentucky police agencies to partner with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. www.lpm.org/news/2025-11...

Louisville's accepting apps to open a temporary cold weather shelter this winter. It made the process simpler, with less red tape, at Metro Council's request after the city shut down a shelter at The StrEatery Food Hall last year. Details on the requirements here:

Folks in Southern Indiana can still get help with their heating/electric bills even though the federal shutdown caused delays in other communities.

Here's 5 key findings from @storiesbyjess.bsky.social's reporting on how Louisville leaders failed to properly investigate allegations of child sexual abuse by two ex-JCPS football coaches. Hear the full story in the excellent 3rd season of KyCIR's podcast Dig: www.lpm.org/podcast/dig

The @lpm.org newsroom is still covering the fallout from the UPS plane crash in Louisville. Two new stories out today from @sylviaruthg.lpm.org -- www.lpm.org/news/2025-11... -- and @g-nizzle.bsky.social👇

NPR aired a story of mine nationally today on Morning Edition about an ambitious plan to restore and protect the waters of the Ohio River Basin, *if* Congress is willing to fund it. You can hear it here:

Our Southern Indiana reporter @lpm.org has 2 stories today on a complicated tax change in Indiana, & how it will hit the budgets of local governments. Learn about the changes here: www.lpm.org/news/2025-11... And see how each city and county is crunching its budget here: www.lpm.org/news/2025-11...

Last week, my colleagues & I at KyCIR laid out our data analysis showing an LMPD officer used an ICE term - ERO, an acronym for the unit managing deportations - in 100+ searches of Louisville's license plate reader database. In response to our findings, LMPD has opened an internal investigation.

Today Season 3 of Dig, "The Girls" dropped in your podcast apps -- a 4-part series about child sex abuse allegations against 2 Louisville educators. It's a hard story about pain & broken systems. But it's also a story about the strength of girls and women, and the power of friendship. kydig.org

Season 3 of Dig, KyCIR's award-winning podcast, is out today. @storiesbyjess.bsky.social investigated how Louisville leaders mishandled child sex abuse allegations against 2 coaches. Hear from the women who say they're fighting for the girls they were then... and for the girls who come after them.

A colleague of mine got up early today to get the latest updates on yesterday's UPS crash. Good PSAs for folks in Louisville here:

Our newsroom is reporting on the UPS plane crash in Louisville. Will keep posting updates with the latest @lpm.org.

Law enforcement are running immigration-related searches on data collected by Louisville Metro Police Department's license plate reader cameras. The practice could violate a local law. NEW story from me and my colleagues @lpm.org & the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting:

FYI we have a court update but I'm not really sure what this will mean for folks in the short term. Judge is requesting a plan/timeline on Monday and we have no sense at what point benefits will actually go out to states to distribute from those emergency funds www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

LPM's @justinhicks.lpm.org wrote a computer program to see how much Kentuckians will have to pay extra in premiums if they get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace (Kynect in KY). Prices going up b/c GOP-run U.S. gov. hasn't extended ACA tax credits.

Missed pay and loss of benefits from the federal government shutdown could further strain Southern Indiana families’ food options. www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

Louisville GOP politician tossed off epithets like “coddled americunts,” “party whores” and “damn sloots” in an old post he wrote about “millennial females” that he now says was mainly dating advice. Yeah, you’ll wanna read Sylvia’s article.

Latest from me: The Jefferson County Republican party has selected a candidate for a special election in Louisville’s South End that railed against the women of his generation through online posts, using vulgar epithets. www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

In Louisville, people filled the streets for this year’s second mass protest against Trump. lpm.org/news/2025-10...

Sarah does great reporting on health policy and issues for Kentuckians. Supporting her work spreads quality local journalism!

Our Arts, Culture, Etc. newsletter is resurrected for Halloween! Hear our Arts & Culture reporter @g-nizzle.bsky.social talk about what's happening in Louisville and join the newsletter so future roundups appear like a specter in your inbox👻

Really nice interview here for @lpm.org's classical music station about the piece "Considering Matthew Shepard," which artists performed in a Louisville production last weekend:

Public meeting alert, Louisville: People get 2 chances this month to discuss the city's notorious "stink" with staff at MSD, the utility that runs our sewer system. Learn what they're doing to mitigate the sewers' contribution to the stench. Info here:

Good dive by @derekparham.bsky.social into a letter Kentucky's GOP attorney general wrote asking EPA to ditch its legal basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions ... and how the AG's letter rejects decades of scientific research on how emissions fuel climate change and endanger public health.

Quick read here on the increase in people arrested by ICE who’ve been held behind bars by Kentucky jails this year. @joesonka.lpm.org summarizes the data:

ICYMI it on @npr.org's Morning Edition, WKMS news director @doperle.bsky.social's feature takes a look at California-based General Matter's privately developed uranium enrichment plant in western Kentucky and what it means in the grand scheme of things when it comes to nuclear energy in the U.S.

Déjà vu.