Soil testing in the yards of fifty homes bordering the former Black Leaf Chemical site in Louisville’s Park Hill neighborhood recently revealed carcinogenic chemicals in all of them. The Environmental Protection Agency found toxic contamination at the 29-acre Black Leaf site itself in 2010, but scientists weren’t sure how far it had spread beyond site […]
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Analyzing Mayor Fischer’s City Budget for FY 2012-13
Friday on Byline WFPL’s Political Editor Phillip Bailey provided review and analysis of Mayor Greg Fischer’s austere budget plan for 2012-13. The spending plan does not raise taxes and balances the budget without Metro employee layoffs or furloughs, and gives non-union city workers a 2 percent raise. Metro Government had faced a $20 million shortfall […]
Black Leaf Contamination; City Budget; Elections Review: Today on Byline
We began Byline today with an in-depth discussion of soil test data from the neighborhood surrounding the Black Leaf Chemical site in the Park Hill area of West Louisville. The tests were conducted by the EPA and revealed some carcinogenic and suspicious chemicals, but full results were not revealed to the public. District 6 Councilman […]
Weekend Arts Overview: Writing Festival, Ryan McGinness, and Samurai
Friday afternoon on Byline, we wrapped up the hour with WFPL’s Arts & Humanities reporter Erin Keane talking about arts in the news and some local arts events to consider this weekend. Literature fans will enjoy the Festival of Writing from Spalding University, as well as a writing collaboration between Silas House and Nela Vaswani. […]
Assessing the Shootings in West Louisville: Today on Byline
A series of brazen shootings in the streets of West Louisville left three dead and three injured yesterday. Today, additional shots have been fired roughly 24 hours after the first of the shootings yesterday. On WFPL’s Friday news round up, Byline, our reporters Phillip M. Bailey and Devin Katayama reviewed the events, taking stock of […]
Pakistan, Afghanistan, Taliban: Weighing the Options With Ahmed Rashid
The final Kentucky Author Forum of the 2011-12 season took place on May 15, 2012 and featured journalist Ahmed Rashid, an authority on the Taliban, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Rashid is author of Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan and Afghanistan. A leading journalist in Pakistan, Rashid draws on his keen knowledge of […]
Homicide at Churchill Downs Casts Spotlight on Backside of Track
The homicide of a Churchill Downs worker, 48 year old Adan Fabian Perez of Guatemala, the day after Derby has raised questions about the culture of backside work at racetracks. Frank Agrinsoni is the backstretch activities coordinator for Churchill Downs, where he works with the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association and the Horsemen’s Protective and Benevolent Association. He […]
Medicaid Troubles with CoventryCares: Summarized on Byline
Friday afternoon on Byline, Kentucky Public Radio’s Kenny Colston spent some time explaining the dispute with CoventryCares, one of three new private Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) that began business in the commonwealth last year. Kentucky Senator Julie Denton says the state’s largest private Medicaid company is underpaying and threatening healthcare providers, and she says […]
Arts Overview for This Weekend
Friday afternoon on Byline, we wrapped up the hour with WFPL’s Arts & Humanities reporter Erin Keane talking about arts in the news and some highlights of local arts events to consider this weekend, including the giant golden statue you may have noticed at the corner of Main and 7th Streets; a new rock opera—“Bare”—from […]
Derby & Oaks Race Handicapping With the Pros
On Oaks Friday, WFPL’s State of the News headed to Churchill Downs to spend an hour talking about the big races ahead this weekend, and handicapping the races with professional insights from Mike Watchmaker from the Daily Racing Form and Ed DeRosa of brisnet.com. In the first segment Rick Howlett spoke our experts about the […]