Ryan Van Velzer
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Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom Managing Editor - a collaboration of 7 NPR stations in Ky., W. Va. and Tenn. Mass shooting survivor.
Louisville, KY
Joined January 2010
Some news: I'm Kentucky Public Radio's new managing editor. I’m excited to edit a talented statewide politics team and manage a collaboration of public radio stations that reaches all 120 Kentucky counties.
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Kentucky Gov. Beshear joins lawsuit against Trump administration funding freeze
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Kentucky Republicans push legislation to eliminate university diversity initiatives
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Polio survivor Mitch McConnell sole GOP Senator to oppose RFK Jr.
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A longtime Louisville-based UPS safety chief could become the new face of workplace safety across the country if confirmed by federal lawmakers.
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Ky bill to strip groundwater pollution oversight ‘protects the coal industry,' sponsor says
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McConnell the lone GOP vote against Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence
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One Louisville Republican lawmaker is pushing for more smoke-filled backrooms (with the help of a city councilmember).
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University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto said he expects the Trump administration policy will cut tens of millions of dollars annually from its National Institutes of Health funding for research.
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Kentucky Senate bill would ban hormone therapy for transgender inmates
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RT @JBernardBoyle: Along with my new role as deputy managing editor of NPR’s Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, I’ll also serve as interim ne…
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The @UAW is trying to expand its foothold in the South where there’s deep-rooted resistance to unions.
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At Kentucky Capitol Black history celebration, lawmakers champion diversity
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A decentralized group of more than 200 protestors stood on the steps of the Kentucky Capitol, protesting broadly about the sweeping changes President Donald Trump has made in his first weeks in office.
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Kentucky lawmakers hope to follow Tennessee as the second state to ban what they call “geoengineering” — the theoretical concept to counter climate change that some baselessly claim is already happening as “chemtrails.”
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RT @WPLN: Temperatures across Tennessee ranged from subzero to over 100 degrees last year, and the average ended up hot. WPLN's @Caroline_E…
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Trump's planning an executive order to end the Department of Education, but he'll need the help of Congress to do it. Ky. Congressman Thomas Massey has written the bill to do it.
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Many of the Kentucky GOP lawmakers pushing legislation skeptical of established health initiatives belong to a wing of the party's caucus that espouses more anti-establishment rhetoric and tends to closely follow Trump’s lead.
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RT @WPLN: Meet @JBernardBoyle, the newest member of WPLN News. John is the deputy managing editor for NPR’s newly formed Appalachia + Mid-S…
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