It’s off to #sej2025, my 31st. At this point, I feel sort of hardwired to attend. Looking forward to seeing old friends and new ones too. And to be inspired by journalists’ rising to the challenge of the day.

SEJ Board President Halle Parker welcomes close to 750 reporters, editors and producers to #SEJ2025 at Arizona State University, at an opening reception featuring azcentral Editor @GBurton, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory Director Peter Schlosser.

Halle Parker Arizona State University azcentral Greg Burton Mayor Kate Gallego ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory “This work matters because the stories we tell — and how we tell them — have real consequences. When Indigenous voices are left out, when local communities are overlooked, the solutions we seek will miss the mark.” -#SEJ2025 co-chair @DebKrol, azcentral

The Pee-Posh Dancers graciously welcomed #SEJ2025 journalists to Tempe, Arizona, built near Maricopa Tribe ancestral lands, by saying, “Environmental reporters – you guys are like our storytellers.”

I’ve experienced the exact same thing.

Maybe emergency room nurses and doctors too? You gotta use your scalpel and it’s a dull? Or maybe an accountant at tax time and the calculator or computer software doesn’t work. 😀

.KET, Mario Anderson 📺 … Scott Jennings is not the sole conservative voice on CNN.

Will we need to go to Costa Rica or some other medical tourism destination for our Covid vaccine boosters this fall?

So Ky has as many as 345K Medicaid fraudsters? Where is the proof of that?

This @cnn NewsNight with Abby D. Phillip is unwatchable with the guests talking over each other. Time for @mlb.com.

No White House picnic for Kentucky’s Rand Paul.. nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna2…

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Twice on this show, speakers have described Scott Jennings as the only Republican commentator on CNN. That’s just not true.

Law and order guy. Not so much.

Wouldn’t this plant already have to meet strict STAR program limits for this pollutant? Regardless of Trump order? Or did the Trump order trump STAR? Or maybe the Biden rules were more stringent than STAR?

Hey #CNN, twice tonight I have heard your correspondents, including Kaitlan Collins , say Trump is willing to leave Alaska without a Putin deal and come back to the United States. Just so you know, Alaska has been a state since 1959.

Nice night of music with Mama Said String Band in Paristown. Except for the hog slaughterhouse odors from two neighborhoods away. Louisville Air Pollution Control Mayor Craig Greenberg

Has Louisville just given up trying to recycle at community events and festivals? Used to be they at least tried. Sometimes. This is in the Paristown entertainment district Friday night. Mayor Craig Greenberg

Brownsboro Road construction project creates hurdles for nearby businesses …lpm.org/news/2025-08-2…

The spokesman for Mayor Craig Greenberg verbally bullies a 89.3 WFPL News intern for asking the mayor about a growing problem of feces downtown. This is unacceptable behavior. lpm.org/investigate/20…