Community & Public Health

About two years ago today, the Kroger Co. announced its decision to close the only full-service grocery store in downtown Louisville. Overnight, thousands of Louisvillians —many of them struggling with limited resources — were left without a place nearby to purchase basic necessities.

Environmental Health, Poverty and Class, Food and Nutrition

“I have to meet this guy and have sex with him. If I don’t, then he and his friends are going to rape my little sister,” a student at Frank Ballou High School in Ward 8’s Congress Heights told her teacher.

Environmental Health, Mental Health

Rural regions across the country are facing a growing wave of hospital closures, shutterings that can pose huge burdens for those in need of urgent care — and can be a matter of life-or-death in emergencies. Hospital closures come as rural America confronts a series of health crises that go beyond t