Click the links below to read some of the stories I’m most proud of:
- “How the fight over a grotto in Park Hills could have nationwide effects”–A church in Northern Kentucky wants to build a grotto, but it keeps getting struck down by the courts. Now, an advocacy group wants to take it to the Supreme Court. Yet, there’s more to this situation than meets the eye, and how the nation fields questions of religious practice, public infrastructure and local governance could soon be at stake.
- “Investigation finds Covington Schools failed to adequately ‘respond to reports of sexual harassment’”–A year-long investigation into alleged harassment from a former principal at Covington Independent Public Schools. What does it say about the district as an institution?
- “Police searches and constitutional rights: the case of Damien Conner”–If the cops pull you over and claim they smell weed in your car, can they search you? What if they think you have a gun? I use the case of a man who was arrested for obstruction as a way of unpacking laws and procedures around police searches and consider if they’re necessary.
- “One woman’s journey through immigration detention in NKY: ‘I want it to stop’”–Donna Hughes-Brown has been a legal permanent resident to the United States since she was 11 years old. That didn’t stop her from being held in immigration detention for months. Learn more about her story and the machinery of immigration detention in Northern Kentucky.
- “Homelessness in NKY: ‘Where are they supposed to go?’”–What’s it like for people experiencing homelessness in Northern Kentucky? In this story I interviewed multiple people living outside and discussed their experiences, not only with the fact of being homeless itself but also in how they interact with the region’s institutions, including shelters, service providers and the police.