Lauren Gorla

Man accused of killing KY teen who intervened in mom’s sexual assault has ICE detainer Immigration officials told the Rowan County jail the man had an ICE detainer, which means they have probable cause to suspect he is in the country illegally.

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I am dodging Severance spoilers left and right today 😩 I'm not even safe in our own content management system!

DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved.

Elon Musk’s team posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts.

Now it has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on that original list, after The New York Times and other media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors.

Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

Equitable Cities Reporting Fellowship for Rural-Urban Issues Next City and CivicLex seek a talented journalist for a one-year reporting fellowship examining urban and rural issues in Central and Appalachian Kentucky. In this role, you will pitch and report news...

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CivicLex is partnering with @nextcity.org to host a one-year journalism fellow to report on rural-urban dynamics & issues in Central KY. $53.5k salary + benefits, and hybrid work with only two days a month required in the CivicLex office.

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The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs billions of people around the world every day with factual, nonpartisan journalism. Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office. This afternoon AP’s reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing. It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism. Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment.

"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office." www.ap.org/the-definiti...

Interstate 40 will reopen through the Pigeon River Gorge on March 1, restoring the main highway connection between North Carolina & Tennessee for the first time since #hurricanehelene.

More from our sister paper @thenewsobserver.bsky.social: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...

Goodbye and good riddance to the longest (and coldest) January I've ever experienced. You won't be missed 👋

Congrats @johnclayiv.bsky.social!!!

2025 -- year of the return of the mall sunken living room?

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This is everything I never knew I wanted out of a daily game!

Absolutely! Love finding more audience/journalism community.

Hey @ona-community.bsky.social! About 70 of us are sitting in a Zoom meeting for the Bluesky chat but it appears the link we got is for another meeting on audience data. Help!

If I could tattoo this into people's brains, that would be awesome! Thank you, Lynn Walsh.

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1/ Here’s a story about how journalism works.

Spoiler Alert: This is how we decide *not* to publish.

We were recently looking at Pete Hegseth’s different statements over the years about West Point, where he has said he was admitted.

First stop: West Point.

Albertsons terminated its merger with Kroger after a federal judge blocked it. The Boise-based chain is now suing Kroger because it failed to exercise “best efforts” to secure regulatory approval of the merger.

This comes after a federal judge blocked the merger citing it would substantially lessen competition in the grocery market.

Angela Palermo delves into the consequences for both companies in her story: www.idahostatesman.com/news/busines...

One of my very favorite office supplies (and you gotta have one in every color) is made not too far from Lexington! Reporter @kendallstaton.bsky.social and photographer @ryanhermens.bsky.social got a behind the scenes look at the Cynthiana factory: www.kentucky.com/news/busines...

We want Bluesky to be a great home for journalists, publishers, and creators. Unlike other platforms, we don't de-promote your links. Post all the links you want — Bluesky is a lobby to the open web.

Planned Parenthood sees 'surge' in Kentucky's demand for long-term birth control options post-election Officials with a Planned Parenthood chapter serving six states – including Kentucky – say they have experienced a “significant surge” in demand for permanent and long-acting reversible birth control o...

In the two days after the election, Planned Parenthood officials for the chapter serving Kentucky said 111 appointments were made in requested for IUD insertions and replacements. On those same two days last year, just 10 such appointments were made.
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EXCUSE ME?????

Snow covers treetops in the Red River Gorge near Slade, Ky., on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024.

It's a frigid morning in Kentucky's Red River Gorge.

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There simply aren’t enough houses and apartments across Kentucky for everyone who wants to live and work here. So what's being done to fix the problem? Read more at: www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Slowly but surely, @heraldleader.bsky.social journalists are moving to Bluesky!

I've got a starter park of everyone so far, but let me introduce y'all to who is in it...

I sure hope that doesn't stick

Tidbit: Councilmember Brenda Monarrez - who was unseated by Emma Curtis, and is currently banned from physically being in City Hall but *is* allowed to attend meetings virtually - has not attended any Council meetings since her Election Day loss.

Thanks Heather!

Current fave rotation is: audiobook + book on the Nook + novel + graphic novel

Also I'm newly engaged and yes it's 70% of what I talk about nowadays