Liam Niemeyer
"Liam Niemeyer is a reporter for the Ohio Valley Resource covering agriculture and infrastructure in Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia and also serves Assistant News Director at WKMS. He has reported for public radio stations across the country from Appalachia to Alaska, most recently as a reporter for WOUB Public Media in Athens, Ohio. He is a recent alumnus of Ohio University and enjoys playing tenor saxophone in various jazz groups."
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Hundreds of thousands of Ky. children to see boost in food assistance during start of school year
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Amid divisive Kentucky politics, natural disaster recovery seen as a bipartisan moment
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The small western Kentucky city of Marion has faced a critical water shortage for months
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EnvironmentHow Marion lost a lake: Inside the tense arguments that led to draining the town’s water supply
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Officials in Marion, the Crittenden County seat, faced a crisis in April when a sinkhole began to grow in the lake’s city-owned levee. The prospect of a levee failure could have unleashed more than 180 million gallons of water on the community of a little under 3,000 people, endangering the city’s water plant and backup water reservoir, multiple bridges and the local hospital.
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Praying for rain: Marion residents show resilience, voice frustration amid water shortage
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And now, they say the need for solidarity is urgent because the ruling could affect other privacy-related rights like same-sex marriage. On the state level, gay and trans advocates say they’ve been under attack, and without federal protections, the tables could turn quickly.
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EnvironmentMarion residents asked to use bottled water for cooking, drinking amid water shortage
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As a result, the Ohio Valley has become an expanse where abortions are either outlawed, heavily restricted, or hanging in the balance of local courts. Those in the region seeking abortions sometimes have to travel hundreds of miles to access it.
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Canadian company creating electricity technology moving into former Murray plant, creating 150 jobs