Every January, Louisville homeless advocates and volunteers survey the county to understand approximately how many people are sleeping outdoors. It’s known as the street count and COVID has changed the logistics this year.

When classrooms shut down last spring to in-person learning, educational theater group Drama by George went straight to audio to keep kids acting.

As a new federal administration takes office, arts workers would like to see more targeted pandemic relief and many support creating an Arts & Culture Cabinet.

Louisville Police Routinely Bust Down Doors In Hunt For Drugs by 89.3 WFPL News Louisville

“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is streaming now on Netflix, a film adaptation of a work by celebrated playwright August Wilson.

Frankfort, Ky. native and Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe directed the film version. His many credits include the hit Broadway show Jelly’s Last Jam and directing the Broadway debut of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. He spoke with WFPL arts reporter Stephanie Wolf.

Which Louisville Judge Let Police Search Your House? Most Signatures Are Unreadable by 89.3 WFPL News Louisville

Education professionals can’t claim unemployment during the summer break that started in Louisville on May 31, a caveat the state doesn’t appear to have made clear when it extended benefits to substitute teachers. Subs who continued to file for unemployment after summer break began are now expected to repay anything the state paid in error.

The head of the Office of Unemployment Insurance was quietly fired on May 5, amid an unprecedented number of jobless claims, a race to overhaul an archaic computer system and a belatedly-reported data breach.

Around 13,000 Jefferson County Public Schools employees have signed up to receive the coronavirus vaccine when K-12 school employee vaccinations begin. But that still leaves around 6 thousand JCPS employees and contractors who haven’t signed up. Health officials say the vaccine is safe, but as WFPL’s Jess Clark reports, many school employees are still hesitant to take it.

Katherine Jackson French traveled the Kentucky mountains in the early 1900s, searching for traditional ballads that were disappearing. Her attempt to publish her work failed, in part, because she was a woman. And, in part, due to something called the “Ballad Wars.” Now, Jackson French’s story is finally being told.