Sylvia Goodman
@sylviaruthg.lpm.org
Ky Capitol reporter @kentuckypublicradio.org ~ prev @chronicle.com @wbez.org @chicagotribune.com ~ she/her
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
If you didn't see, Paul's amendment got tabled, the CR is heading to the House WITH McConnell's anti-THC hemp attachment. Read more from @joesonka.lpm.org
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November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
If you didn't see, Paul's amendment got tabled, the CR is heading to the House WITH McConnell's anti-THC hemp attachment. Read more from @joesonka.lpm.org
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How did these men get away with abuse that a group of young women say stretches back almost two decades? The third season of KYCIR's Dig from @storiesbyjess.bsky.social is now live. It is distressing and upsetting, but an absolutely vital listen.
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Dig
Each season on "Dig," from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, we expose the systems that allow injustice to fester, and shine a light on the people fighting for solutions. Season Three: ...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
How did these men get away with abuse that a group of young women say stretches back almost two decades? The third season of KYCIR's Dig from @storiesbyjess.bsky.social is now live. It is distressing and upsetting, but an absolutely vital listen.
www.lpm.org/podcast/dig
www.lpm.org/podcast/dig
Paul v. McConnell, Kentucky's two senators ... and we are on a short timeline for this CR folks! The voting margins are real tight in the Senate
Rand Paul is seeking an amendment to remove McConnell’s hemp language.
These two have had quite a roller coaster of a relationship over the past 16 years
These two have had quite a roller coaster of a relationship over the past 16 years
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Paul v. McConnell, Kentucky's two senators ... and we are on a short timeline for this CR folks! The voting margins are real tight in the Senate
Latest from @justinhicks.lpm.org and @joesonka.lpm.org , a close witness to the UPS plane crash yesterday evening recounts what he saw
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Louisville shop owner recounts UPS plane crashing, trapping employees on property
The owner of a truck service shop was next door to the fiery and deadly UPS crash in Louisville on Tuesday, trapped on the property for hours.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Latest from @justinhicks.lpm.org and @joesonka.lpm.org , a close witness to the UPS plane crash yesterday evening recounts what he saw
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Kentucky Congressman Brett Guthrie told an audience in his district that the GOP won't blink first in government shutdown stalemate over health insurance tax credits. From WKU:
Rep. Brett Guthrie suggests GOP won't blink first in government shutdown stalemate over health care
Republican Congressman Brett Guthrie of Kentucky says Democrats must vote for agovernment reopening before his party will negotiate Affordable Care Act tax credits.Guthrie held a round table discussio...
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October 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Kentucky Congressman Brett Guthrie told an audience in his district that the GOP won't blink first in government shutdown stalemate over health insurance tax credits. From WKU:
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
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October 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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...
www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...
Kentucky food pantries call for community support ahead of SNAP cliff — latest from me
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Kentucky food pantries call for community support ahead of SNAP cliff
Kentucky Public Radio spoke with food banks across the state bracing for a surge in clients ahead of the Nov. 1 suspension of federal food assistance.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Kentucky food pantries call for community support ahead of SNAP cliff — latest from me
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Another killer report from @justinhicks.lpm.org. These are based on the actual estimates that Kentuckians in these circumstances are getting averaged across all 120 counties
Looks real bad if you're 60+ I'll tell you that much
Looks real bad if you're 60+ I'll tell you that much
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Another killer report from @justinhicks.lpm.org. These are based on the actual estimates that Kentuckians in these circumstances are getting averaged across all 120 counties
Looks real bad if you're 60+ I'll tell you that much
Looks real bad if you're 60+ I'll tell you that much
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With federal subsidies set to expire unless Congress acts quickly, Kentucky Public Radio analyzed quotes from the state’s health insurance marketplace and found premium increases ranging from 60% to 600% compared to 2025. From @justinhicks.lpm.org
Many Kentuckians to pay hundreds or even thousands more for health insurance next year
Kentucky Public Radio analyzed quotes from the state’s health insurance marketplace and found premium increases ranging from 60% to 600% compared to 2025.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
With federal subsidies set to expire unless Congress acts quickly, Kentucky Public Radio analyzed quotes from the state’s health insurance marketplace and found premium increases ranging from 60% to 600% compared to 2025. From @justinhicks.lpm.org
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Student journalists in Appalachia! 🚨 PAID writing opportunity before end of the semester: 100 Days in Appalachia is assembling a series of dispatches on the biggest issues facing campuses. Pieces are short, not as heavy a lift reporting-wise. Email [email protected] & I'll share info.
October 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Student journalists in Appalachia! 🚨 PAID writing opportunity before end of the semester: 100 Days in Appalachia is assembling a series of dispatches on the biggest issues facing campuses. Pieces are short, not as heavy a lift reporting-wise. Email [email protected] & I'll share info.
Fascinating report from @joesonka.lpm.org. Petition filed to impeach Kentucky Justice Goodwine over alleged conflicts (and it cites some of Joe's previous reporting)
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Petition filed to impeach Kentucky Justice Goodwine over alleged conflicts
The impeachment petition alleges Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Pamela Goodwine should have recused herself from an education case she granted a rehearing for.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Fascinating report from @joesonka.lpm.org. Petition filed to impeach Kentucky Justice Goodwine over alleged conflicts (and it cites some of Joe's previous reporting)
www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...
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I’ve been calling food banks around the state (and I’m not just talking Louisville or Lexington) to hear about the needs of different communities and, honestly, hear the fears of people who’ve dedicated years to feeding ether hungry as Nov 1 approaches
Read below and know that there’s more TK
Read below and know that there’s more TK
Alongside Gov. Andy Beshear, more than two dozen Democratic attorneys general and governors are suing the Trump administration over plans to suspend food assistance benefits in November, as the federal government shutdown drags on. From @sylviaruthg.lpm.org #kyga26
Beshear joins Democratic officials suing Trump administration for suspending food assistance
Alongside Gov. Andy Beshear, more than two dozen Democratic attorneys general and governors are suing the Trump administration over plans to suspend food assistance benefits as the federal government ...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I’ve been calling food banks around the state (and I’m not just talking Louisville or Lexington) to hear about the needs of different communities and, honestly, hear the fears of people who’ve dedicated years to feeding ether hungry as Nov 1 approaches
Read below and know that there’s more TK
Read below and know that there’s more TK
Great story from @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social this morning
‘Every penny counts’ for Kentucky kinship care families about to see benefits cut kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/27/e...
‘Every penny counts’ for Kentucky kinship care families about to see benefits cut kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/27/e...
‘Every penny counts’ for Kentucky kinship care families about to see benefits cut • Kentucky Lantern
Life feels “scary” right now for a Hardin County grandmother raising four minor grandchildren. It could get even scarier soon.
kentuckylantern.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Great story from @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social this morning
‘Every penny counts’ for Kentucky kinship care families about to see benefits cut kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/27/e...
‘Every penny counts’ for Kentucky kinship care families about to see benefits cut kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/27/e...
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...
GOP candidate for Kentucky Senate defends, then deletes ‘rant’ against millennial ‘skanks’
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 epith...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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...
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The proposed settlement between the Kentucky attorney general and the state’s largest electric utility company would cut their proposed electricity rate increases in half.
Kentucky AG settlement with state's largest electric utility would lessen rate increases
The proposed settlement between the Kentucky attorney general and the state’s largest electric utility company would cut proposed electricity rate increases in half.
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October 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The proposed settlement between the Kentucky attorney general and the state’s largest electric utility company would cut their proposed electricity rate increases in half.
Believe me, if you’re on the marketplace odds are you’re seeing an increase, even if you didn’t qualify for the subsidy. DM me or Joe — we want to hear from you!
Any Kentuckians out there have individual or family private health insurance on the kynect marketplace and are concerned about federal subsidies vanishing? Hit up my DMs.
October 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Believe me, if you’re on the marketplace odds are you’re seeing an increase, even if you didn’t qualify for the subsidy. DM me or Joe — we want to hear from you!
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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New: a KY state rep from Louisville is serving 10 days of home incarceration this week for a 2024 DUI arrest (her 2nd offense).
She was granted work release & has some committee meetings this week.
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She was granted work release & has some committee meetings this week.
www.kentucky.com/news/politic...
Kentucky Democratic state representative on house arrest for 2024 DUI incident
Rep. Beverly Chester-Burton was sentenced to 10 days of home incarceration with work release for her second DUI arrest in 2024.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
New: a KY state rep from Louisville is serving 10 days of home incarceration this week for a 2024 DUI arrest (her 2nd offense).
She was granted work release & has some committee meetings this week.
www.kentucky.com/news/politic...
She was granted work release & has some committee meetings this week.
www.kentucky.com/news/politic...
This has been quite the saga to follow. We’re still missing some details here but the budget memo shows the administration moving money around to fill the gap in the senior meals program
After public outcry and pressure from lawmakers, Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration found the funding to support senior meal programs across the state.www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...
Beshear finds money for Kentucky’s senior meal programs amid legislative pressure
After public outcry and pressure from lawmakers, Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration found the funding to support senior meal programs across the state.
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October 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This has been quite the saga to follow. We’re still missing some details here but the budget memo shows the administration moving money around to fill the gap in the senior meals program
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The first time I saw this image, I knew I had to write about this piece of Kentucky history. Sonya Lea’s new book is a bracing, deep look into a troubling case and an invitation to think deeply about the justice system in our country.
A new book from a Kentucky native details the last public hanging in the United States, which took place in Owensboro in 1936, examining it through the lens of lynching culture in America. From @doperle.bsky.social at @wkmsfm.bsky.social
20,000 people watched a Black man hang in Owensboro 90 years ago. A new book looks at why
A new book from a Kentucky native details the last public hanging in the United States, which took place in Owensboro 1936, and examines it through the lens of lynch culture in America.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The first time I saw this image, I knew I had to write about this piece of Kentucky history. Sonya Lea’s new book is a bracing, deep look into a troubling case and an invitation to think deeply about the justice system in our country.
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Democrat Amy McGrath, who has lost two high-profile races for Congress, announced another bid for Sen. Mitch McConnell’s open seat Monday. From @sylviaruthg.lpm.org #kysen
Amy McGrath announces another bid for US Senate in Kentucky
Democrat Amy McGrath, who has lost two high-profile races for Congress, announced a bid for Sen. Mitch McConnell’s open seat Monday.
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October 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Democrat Amy McGrath, who has lost two high-profile races for Congress, announced another bid for Sen. Mitch McConnell’s open seat Monday. From @sylviaruthg.lpm.org #kysen
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Good investigation here from @sylviaruthg.lpm.org on how Kentucky state gov., under Gov. Andy Beshear, has kicked people off SNAP food benefits b/c of their pattern of shopping transactions - even though judges & legal experts say that type of evidence is not enough to prove fraud.
Kentucky has kicked people off of food benefits using data that doesn’t tell the full story
With food insecurity rising, Kentucky continues to aggressively investigate individuals on fraud allegations, with some legal experts claiming they rely too much on faulty evidence.
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September 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Good investigation here from @sylviaruthg.lpm.org on how Kentucky state gov., under Gov. Andy Beshear, has kicked people off SNAP food benefits b/c of their pattern of shopping transactions - even though judges & legal experts say that type of evidence is not enough to prove fraud.
After searching through court and state records, a pattern is clear. Kentucky swiftly stepped up SNAP disqualifications in 2016 and a review of several cases from 2020 onward shows a heavily reliance on suspicious shopping patterns to accuse people of selling benefits
apnews.com/article/food...
apnews.com/article/food...
Kentucky has kicked people off food benefits using data that doesn’t tell the full story
The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services has brought hundreds of fraud cases in the last five years that are heavily reliant on transactional data with the goal of revoking people’s federal...
apnews.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
After searching through court and state records, a pattern is clear. Kentucky swiftly stepped up SNAP disqualifications in 2016 and a review of several cases from 2020 onward shows a heavily reliance on suspicious shopping patterns to accuse people of selling benefits
apnews.com/article/food...
apnews.com/article/food...
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Kentucky GOP Congressman Thomas Massie is facing attacks from President Donald Trump, but was lent a hand by Sen. Rand Paul in a six-stop tour through his district. www.lpm.org/news/2025-09...
Targeted by Trump, Rep. Thomas Massie teams up with Rand Paul for district tour
Kentucky GOP Congressman Thomas Massie is facing attacks from President Donald Trump, but was lent a hand by Sen. Rand Paul in a six-stop tour through his district.
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September 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Kentucky GOP Congressman Thomas Massie is facing attacks from President Donald Trump, but was lent a hand by Sen. Rand Paul in a six-stop tour through his district. www.lpm.org/news/2025-09...