Sylvia Goodman
Capitol ReporterSylvia Goodman is Kentucky Public Radio’s Capitol reporter, and has covered the state's politics and government since 2023. While a student at Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, she interned with the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Public Media. After graduating in 2022, she wrote for the Chronicle of Higher Education in Washington DC as a reporting fellow before moving back to Louisville, her hometown. Email Sylvia at sgoodman@lpm.org and follow her on Bluesky at @sylviaruthg.lpm.org.
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Kentucky’s worker safety authority would no longer be able to enforce any rules that are more strict than federal minimums. What supporters call business friendly, one Democrat described as a “race to the bottom.” -
A bill to ban diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at public colleges and universities passed out of the Senate Wednesday. It’s likely to head to the governor’s desk once the House concurs. -
Incarcerated transgender people would no longer be able to access hormone therapy under a bill that passed a House committee vote Wednesday. -
An opponent of a bill to eliminate DEI in higher education has filed a complaint over a committee hearing they say violated open meetings laws, but Republican leadership says it won’t hamper the bill’s progress. -
A bill passed the House on Tuesday to create a new state emergency fund to aid Kentuckians who suffered in the recent severe storms and flooding in February. -
Kentucky’s House Bill 4 would require all diversity, equity and inclusion offices close and programs end by this summer. A full Senate vote is the only thing standing between the bill and the governor’s desk. -
Last year, the General Assembly created a task force to study the governance of Jefferson County Public Schools. After it called for another year of study, the legislature is considering expanding the group to study all Kentucky schools. -
This week in Kentucky: Tariff threats disrupt the bourbon industry, Republican lawmakers acknowledge "validity" of environmentalist concerns over a water bill, and students voice concern over a bill to ban diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in higher education. -
The age at which Kentuckians would be allowed to carry concealed firearms could drop from 21 to 18-years-old under Senate Bill 75. It passed a committee vote Thursday, but Democrats and a couple Republicans withheld support. -
Citing a recent federal Supreme Court ruling, a state House committee passed a bill saying courts should not automatically defer to administrative agencies when interpreting ambiguities in the law.
