Justin Hicks
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Appalachian coal miners ask lawmakers in DC for better disability benefits and worker protections (opens the original)
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Retired coal miners, widows and Appalachian policy groups took to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, urging lawmakers to increase disability benefits and pressure federal regulators to protect existing workers. Their advocacy comes on the heels of a recent report from the Appalachia Mid-South Newsroom and NPR showing the rate of black lung disease among underground coal miners is the worst in nearly half a century. Legislation central to the rally is the “Support our Miners Act” and the “Black Lung Bene
UPDATE: Louisville woman with sickle cell released from ICE custody (opens the original)
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A Ugandan woman who says she was denied medical care for sickle cell anemia while detained by U.S Customs and Immigration Enforcement was released from custody Friday, following pressure from family, friends and U.S. Rep. Morgan McGarvey. Sarafinah Bukirwa was detained in Louisville on July 22 and has an active asylum case, her brother said. A federal judge in Louisville ordered her release Friday and Erin Lytlesen, a spokesperson for the family, said her $1,500 bond was paid. Lytlesen and repre
Louisville voters got wrong ballots. Kentucky officials say statewide accuracy will take money (opens the original)
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When LPM News reported earlier this month that voters from hundreds of Louisville households may have received the wrong ballots, local elections officials across Kentucky took notice. It prompted a review of election data from the state's mapping and election specialist – who independently found discrepancies in elections data for more than 2,100 Louisville households. The Jefferson County Clerk's office assigned some voters to the wrong precincts. In certain cases, that prevented residents fro
Some voters in Louisville, Kentucky, got wrong ballots for years (opens the original)
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I'm Steve Inskeep with the story of elections gone wrong. Some Kentucky voters have been getting the wrong ballots and voting in the wrong races for years. Louisville Public Media exposed this by investigating the city's election data. LPM's Justin Hicks is here to tell us about it. Good morning. JUSTIN HICKS, BYLINE: Hey. Good morning, Steve. HICKS: So in Kentucky, as some people may know, we had a primary election a little bit more than a month ago. And during that election, one voter reached
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