BLOG

KC Tenants Power’s 30-page voter guide for the April 4 municipal primary election displays a level of power-building ambition that goes far beyond getting a few allies elected to the city council. The organization pushes candidates to adopt a practice it calls “co-governance,” defined as “the process of consulting with the people most impacted by the issue at hand, ensuring those people are involved in the process every step of the way, amplifying their voices in and out of rooms they are invited into, voting alongside their demands, and giving them recognition, before, during and after, both publicly and directly.”

Read More

The original plan was to do a policy-focused effort, likely around a tenants’ bill of rights with a right to counsel in eviction proceedings. But as they talked through these ideas, several of the LTU members reported problems they faced with the CT Group, a Maryland-based private corporation that had a contract with the Louisville Metro Housing Authority, or LMHA, to manage two of the city’s largest public housing sites. LTU members and others were dealing with flooding, mold, rodents and broken lights in parking areas, with little to no response to their outreach to management.

Read More

Our Festival this year carries the title “Journeys of Faith”. Through a series of panel discussions pairing Jewish and Black pastors and clergy, our Festival sponsors and partners will seek to connect those Louisvillian communities through discussions of faith and life experience. Their goal is to enable a better understanding of one another and achieve connection through a renewed foundation of relationship. Musically the LO will explore the music of Jewish composers Leonard Bernstein and Olga Neuwirth and an important work by Joel Thompson based on the words of African-American writer James Baldwin. American music will welcome two brand new compositions to its ranks from our Creators Corps members, TJ Cole and Tyler Taylor.

Read More

Louisville Metro Government’s Office of Arts and Creative Industries awarded $250,000 to 16 local arts organizations. The funding comes from the National Endowment for the Arts’ American Rescue Plan sub-granting program. According to a news release from the city, the program aims to help arts organizations as they try to return to semi-normal processes following COVID-19.

Read More

The implications of these sleep disparities are far-reaching. The medical world has known for decades that habitually poor sleep increases the risk for heart disease. If more people regularly got the recommended seven to nine hours of restful sleep, experts assert, the incidence of heart disease — the most frequent cause of death in the U.S. — could fall substantially. Earlier this year, the American Heart Association went so far as to add getting a good night’s sleep to its central recommendations for improving cardiovascular health.

Read More

Councilman Jecorey Arthur is hosting a virtual call for anyone interested in running for elected office. The call will be Tuesday, January 24th from 6-7 PM ET.

Read More

In 2022 we sponsored 66 pieces of legislation in total, 63 of them passed, 2 are still held in committees, and 1 of them failed. A special shout out to the District 4 Legislative Assistant Brianna Wright who opened several hundred constituent cases this year and our staff helper Mikayla Hicks who has been helping with social media. We have a lot of work to do but can't do it without you.

Read More

“Keep in mind that the state almost always has the military force at its disposal to crush just about any uprising. This is particularly true since the end of World War I, after which most states acquired tanks, machine guns and other tools that almost no rebel group could match on the battlefield. I found that an uprising is half as likely to succeed if the military intervenes directly and that this far less likely to happen if the uprising remains nonviolent.”

Read More

Advocates and researchers have never had stronger evidence about the best way to most effectively house people who need it: a model known as “housing first.” As the name suggests, its focus is getting people into permanent housing and offering them support services, rather than requiring them to address mental health conditions, substance abuse, or job training first.

Read More

The Neighborhood Institute is a neighborhood leadership-education program established in 1987 by the Center For Neighborhoods, a non-profit civic organization. The Neighborhood Institute equips neighborhood leaders with the resources necessary to effect positive change by acting through and with their neighborhood groups. Part of the Neighborhood Institute curriculum includes a self-directed project in the community. Through the class projects, people become engaged in the community as they branch out and apply the information and knowledge from the class to real-life situations.

Read More

She said the results “should be categorized as a ‘youth wave,’ with near-historic numbers of young people turning out to vote, motivated not by party, but by the issues impacting them.”

Read More

According to Brown, people who blame neighborhoods for violence are missing the real problem. “My neighborhoods are being attacked by … unjust legislation. My neighborhoods are being attacked by having no resources in our schools and in our homes,” he said. He thanked educators and school staff for supporting him through every challenge and encouraged them to call on him for help.

Read More

The decision to declare states of emergency highlights the dual narrative of homelessness today: National point-in-time count data, collected in January, suggest that overall homelessness is trending downward. Indeed, some cities have made dramatic reductions in the number of veterans who are homeless on a repeat or long-term basis. But in certain places, and among certain parts of the homeless population, it’s getting worse. "For veterans in particular, Congress has made the resources available, scaled to the size of the problem," said Steve Berg, vice president of policy and programs at the National Alliance to End Homelessness. "For the rest of the homeless population, that just hasn’t happened."

Read More

The event ― which took place this year for the first time in at least a decade ― was hosted at the Louisville Memorial Auditorium and welcomed Black women to compete as themselves, regardless of who they are or where they've come from. About 250 friends and family members were in the crowd, said Ashley Anderson, executive director of Miss Black Kentucky.

Read More

Consistent exposure to music, like learning to play a musical instrument, or taking voice lessons, strengthens a particular set of academic and social-emotional skills that are essential to learning. In ways that are unmatched by other pursuits, like athletics for instance, learning music powerfully reinforces language skills, builds and improves reading ability, and strengthens memory and attention, according to the latest research on the cognitive neuroscience of music.

Read More

Mayor Greg Fischer and Metro Council members today announced the city is in contract negotiations to devote about $32 million of federal American Rescue Plan (ARP) dollars to five community organizations for permanent supportive housing projects, providing help to vulnerable people not only with more stable housing, but also more opportunities for stability and productivity in their lives.

Read More

A new study reveals that 20 percent of Kentucky's child care centers could be at risk of closure. Kentucky Edition looks at what's behind the problem.

Read More

On August 18, 2022, EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan signed the Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention (SCCAP) Proposed Rule, which proposes revisions to the Risk Management Program (RMP) to further protect vulnerable communities from chemical accidents, especially those living near facilities with high accident rates. The proposed rule would strengthen the existing program and includes new safeguards that have not been addressed in prior RMP rules. In addition to accepting written comments during the public comment period, EPA is also holding virtual public hearings. The virtual public hearings will provide the opportunity to present information, comments or views pertaining to the SCCAP proposed rule.

Read More

Discussions about atonement for the enslavement of Black Americans has a long history in the United States. Most famously, General William T. Sherman drafted Special Field Order 15 in 1865. The order stipulated that Confederate land seized in Georgia and South Carolina would be split among formerly enslaved Black people in those states, no more than 40 acres per family.

Read More

Metro Councilman Jecorey Arthur, D-4th District, who represents downtown, part of the West End and neighborhoods just east of the Central Business District, said he is finalizing an ordinance that would do just that after meeting with the Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods and officials in other cities with gun buyback programs.

Read More