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  • Americana seeks financial strength as it serves Louisville's immigrant community

    Americana seeks financial strength as it serves Louisville's immigrant community
    Dec 5 2025
    Americana Community Center has served Louisville’s refugee and immigrant communities for over 30 years. Last month, the nonprofit hired Ricky Santiago to be its new executive director. Santiago talks with LPM about the financial challenges Americana has weathered, his hopes for future sustainability, and the resurgence he believes the organization is making.
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    17 min
  • Kentuckians face rising costs while wages stay stagnant

    Kentuckians face rising costs while wages stay stagnant
    Dec 3 2025
    Across Kentucky, families are feeling the squeeze as the cost of living keeps rising, while wages have barely moved. We spoke with Jason Bailey, the founder and executive director of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, a progressive think tank, about what’s driving essential costs up across Kentucky, and what we should be watching as we head into the holiday season.
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    15 min
  • How multigenerational learning can help close Kentucky's literacy gap

    How multigenerational learning can help close Kentucky's literacy gap
    Nov 26 2025
    November is Family Literacy Month — a chance to focus on how families, schools and communities support reading. Here in Louisville, Felicia C. Smith, president and CEO of the National Center for Families Learning, leads two-generation literacy work that connects adults and children. We spoke with Smith about the state of literacy in Kentucky, what family literacy looks like in practice, and where families and educators can make the biggest difference.
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    25 min
  • Louisville Jamaican eatery helps those impacted by Hurricane Melissa

    Louisville Jamaican eatery helps those impacted by Hurricane Melissa
    Nov 21 2025
    Janice Clarke opened a Jamaican restaurant Elliment in downtown Louisville earlier this year, and it’s already become a gathering spot and resource for Louisville’s Jamaican community. Last month, Clarke’s native country of Jamaica was devastated by Hurricane Melissa, the strongest recorded hurricane to ever hit the island country. We talked with her about how she came to start the restaurant, and how she is raising money and collecting non-perishable food and new and gently used clothes to send to Jamaica amidst the recovery.
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    20 min
  • A Louisville nonprofit helps bridge the gap between food insecurity and access

    A Louisville nonprofit helps bridge the gap between food insecurity and access
    Nov 14 2025
    Unlike a lot of places in greater Louisville, access to groceries in west Louisville can be difficult, especially for those who don’t have their own transportation. Since 2019, the nonprofit Change Today, Change Tomorrow has worked to narrow the gap between needing food and having access to it. We talk with Taylor Ryan, the organization’s founder and executive director, about what her organization does and what more it wants to do to help feed the West End.
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    16 min
  • The only hospital in west Louisville celebrates its first year of being open

    The only hospital in west Louisville celebrates its first year of being open
    Nov 11 2025
    Until a year ago, Louisville’s West End hadn’t had a hospital in 150 years. But last November, Norton West Louisville Hospital opened its doors and has since provided care to thousands of patients. Corenza Townsend, the hospital’s chief administrative officer, helped plan the hospital from the start. We talk with her about how the first year has gone and how Norton plans to celebrate this milestone.
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    15 min
  • Louisville Grows talks fall composting

    Louisville Grows talks fall composting
    Nov 5 2025
    It’s the end of the growing season, when pumpkins shrivel on porches and leaves blanket our yards. But instead of sending that fall waste to the landfill, gardeners can turn it into something useful. Seamus Allman is the urban horticulture manager at Louisville Grows, where he helps residents care for community gardens and build healthier soil. We spoke with Seamus about composting pumpkins, reusing leaves, and how to prepare gardens for the next season.
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    21 min
  • Louisville nonprofit aims to support children in South Sudan

    Louisville nonprofit aims to support children in South Sudan
    Oct 31 2025
    Louisville-based nonprofit Nile Orphan Care is working to help hundreds of orphans in South Sudan, a country that’s experienced decades of conflict and civil war.
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    18 min