By Linda Blackford | Editor
Good morning! As many of you know, Kentucky got a nice chunk of the $17 billion that Meta – the parent of Facebook and Instagram – decided to hand over to states in lieu of a courtroom trial over how they’ve harmed kids. So what should they do with $358 million? People have thoughts, some of which were expressed to reporter Sarah Ladd.
Contributor Deborah Yetter has a heartbreaking story that combines our terrible immigration system with all the ways our foster and protective services don’t seem to work.
Republicans keep trying to figure out how to get vouchers and school choice in Kentucky, and they got some help from Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, which hands out a federal tax credit. But as reporter McKenna Horsley explains, those donations could also go to public schools.
And Mae Suramek describes why Gloria Steinem and bell hooks mean so much to her development as a feminist and activist.
It’s Wednesday, and no famous Kentuckians have either died or been sentenced to 60 days in jail! So, progress, at least for now. Thanks for reading.
The Meta settlement will send $358 million to Kentucky for children’s programs. (Getty Images)
By Sarah Ladd
Kentucky is about to get an influx of funds from a major settlement with Meta, and lawmakers and advocates want to see the money invested in children’s wellbeing.
A one-year-old child is caught up in a complicated case in Louisville. (Stock photo by Greenleaf123/Getty Images)
By Deborah Yetter
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has temporarily blocked child welfare officials from removing a one-year-old girl from foster parents and returning her to the mother who was accused of attempting to harm the girl as a newborn.
A young boy walks down a hallway at Carter Traditional Elementary School in Louisville, Ky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)
By McKenna Horsley
A statewide nonprofit organization has been established to oversee educational scholarships for Kentucky public and private school students under a future federal tax credit program.
Gloria Steinem, Mae Suramek, and bell hooks during one of Steinem’s visits to Berea. Steinem and hooks were friends and collaborators. (Photo provided)
COMMENTARY
By Mae Suramek
I can’t really remember the exact moment I began identifying as a feminist. I know it was early on – before I even knew what the word meant, before my first date, before someone told me I had to wear a bra, before the first time a man made me feel inferior.
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