Leslie Scanlon
@lscanlon
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Chasing the wind. Writing about faith, ideas & the complexities of life. Dogs, kids & cooking disasters too. Freelance; formerly @courierjournal @pres-outlook.
Louisville
Joined February 2009
Just had a conversation with our accountant. I swear, I understood maybe 1% of what she said. And that part was "I'm leaving now to go have a massage, so you have until Monday to hunt for those documents."
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My dad found this in the driveway in Mt. Sterling, KY and said they’re in the driveways throughout their subdivision and in the neighboring subdivision. How unbelievably frightening.
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Front and center in this: Fern Creek Baptist Church in #Louisville. That's Linda Barnes Popham, the church's pastor, raising up the Bible and making the case for women in leadership.
Breaking News: Southern Baptists finalized the expulsion of two churches with female pastors, after a dramatic clash at their annual convention over moves by an ultraconservative wing to reverse what it sees as a liberal drift.
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Louisville is losing homes to short term rentals in the middle of a housing crisis. We introduced legislation to put a moratorium on new short term rentals until we can update the ordinance that regulates them. @Airbnb lied to their local hosts saying our legislation takes their
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It's official: #PCUSA stated clerk @jherbertnelson will not seek a third term. "I thank God for the best job I’ve ever had with some of the best people I’ve ever worked with.” https://t.co/tKdSLD7HtA (Photo credit: Rich Copley)
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Listening to @JemarTisby on #GunViolence: It's not just the mass shootings. ”Low income communities, which tend to have disproportionately high numbers of Black and brown folks deal with gun violence almost constantly."
courier-journal.com
Low income communities deal with gun violence constantly. But persistent grassroots efforts to curb the killings barely register on the national stage
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Stunned by this statistic. About 1 in 20 American adults - about 16 million people - own at least one AR-15 rifle. #gunviolence
https://t.co/0xWDTOW7Mq
washingtonpost.com
The AR-15 wasn’t supposed to be a best-seller. It's the result of a dramatic shift in American gun culture fueled by the firearms industry and its allies.
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Progressives in #Kentucky: "We are hate objects for our state's Republican politicians." @perrybaconjr considers whether to leave an increasingly red state. https://t.co/VlGowtSCve
washingtonpost.com
I really like Louisville and its people, culture, restaurants, schools. But I think often about whether my family and I should move.
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Powerful words from @teri_atthepaper on the Nashville shooting. At church, "I should have sat by the side door. Because as our pastor reminds us, 'If you ever see me start running down the center aisle, get down or get out.' This is how we live." https://t.co/9d4bHIzJKt
kentuckylantern.com
From Newtown to Uvalde to Nashville, our kids are dying, gunned down, with their teachers, in their classrooms, with AR-15 style rifles. This is what we call living?
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Ohio had 81 victims killed in #DomesticViolence incidents in the fiscal year that ended June 2022 - including 22 children. The youngest: a one-day old baby.
Amid More Severe Domestic Violence Cases, Ohio Advocates Call for More Funding https://t.co/ZuPoRY2rnJ
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“Once we found out it was a rifle he was using, it was a different game plan we would have had to come up with. It wasn’t just going in guns blazing, the Old West style, and take him out.” via @TexasTribune
https://t.co/CfSEifdnpE
propublica.org
In previously unreleased interviews, police told investigators they were cowed by the Uvalde shooter’s military-style rifle. This drove their decision to wait for a Border Patrol SWAT team to engage...
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Kentuckians will be able to indulge in an odd form of judge shopping, thanks to the Republican supermajority and its aversion to Franklin Circuit Court.
kentuckylantern.com
Kentuckians challenging the constitutionality of state laws and executive branch decisions could move their lawsuits across the state at random, under a Republican-backed bill approved by the...
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Wow, this is lovely. Out of love for his wife, a stoic man finds a way to ask for help. https://t.co/WxxGSiyaEP
nytimes.com
Robert Rice had been through war and was used to handling his own problems. Then an intense snowstorm in Southern California threatened to keep him from seeing his wife in her final days.
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Today, the Presbyteries' Cooperative Committee on Examinations of Candidates issued a statement of apology regarding its use of Judges 19 in the recent exegesis exam. https://t.co/k3RF0QAMWT
#PCUSA
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Candidates for 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁 8 - feel free to weigh in on short term rental / AirBnB impact on the neighborhoods, including affordable housing inventory.
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Under consideration now: application for short term rental at 1478 Cherokee Rd. in #Louisville. Out of state owner. Directly across from Cherokee Park. Little dedicated parking, no sidewalk on the park side. Case #22-CUPPA-0414
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From @maggiesmithpoet: A list of poems that bring joy. https://t.co/GOXURV0v7X Because, Maggie says, Mary Oliver was right: “Joy is not made to be a crumb.” Feel free to add to the list. #poetry
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