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Research How to Un-Lonely a Neighborhood × Belonging can be measured as the distance between a door and the feeling you’re allowed to walk through it. That’s according to scientific research. Ours, in fact. But to learn that, we first had to be wrong. We recently finished up a study in the field of research
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Commentary A New Louisville Export? × The disease is loneliness. Does Louisville have ingredients for the cure? The Best of Louisville Voting Academy sheds light I fish for trout and, unless I’m with close friends, I do it alone. I plan elaborately to avoid the popular spots. I’ll stagger upstream over mossy rocks, grope bushes
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State of Things Proof of Citizenship × For the past several years, to close out the Festival of Faiths on Saturday morning, I’ve helped facilitate discussions that have covered some of the difficulties we deal with as a city: gun violence, kids feeling disconnected, race in our city since 2020, loneliness, the Ninth Street Divide.
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Neighborhoods: Russell Russell Revisited A year and a half ago, I did a group interview with dozens of Russell residents, then hosted a Zoom call with several of them. (One of the questions I asked: If Russell were a car, what would it be? And, yes, the most popular answer by far was: a Cadillac.
From the Roundtables We guessed wrong. Here’s what Louisvillians really think.
From the Roundtables Book Recs from Your Neighbors Find these books at Carmichael’s A Short Guide to a Happy Life Notes on Grief Breath Black on White The Good Journey The Name of the Wind Aftermath Jayber Crow
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A member of the voting group wanted to know if the rest of us agreed that young folks who leave town tend to come back. We asked...
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