AppalReD Legal Aid Board of Directors Meeting
AppalReD Legal Aid's Board of Directors will be meeting on Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. at Ramada by Wyndham Paintsville Hotel & Conference Center, 624 James S. Trimble Blvd., HWY 321 & James Trimble Blvd., Paintsville, KY.
Appalachian Research Day Brings Findings Back to the Community
Published: May 20, 2016 HAZARD, Ky. (May 20, 2016) — For many University of Kentucky researchers who study health in Appalachia, the UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) is an indispensible partner in conducting comm...
More Low-Income Kids Now Have Health Coverage
More Low-Income Kids Now Have Health Coverage NPR The expansion of Medicaid and continued enrollment in the Children's Health Insurance Program have boosted the proportion of eligible kids with health coverage to 91 percent, a study finds. Read ...
Lawyers help Mr. Social Security's ex-clients
136 lawyers from 25 states volunteer to represent ex-disability clients of Eric Conn, who is under indictment for fraud Check out this story on courier-journal.com. Read more
Report indicates loss of 8,000 East Kentucky coal jobs since 2009
Ky. children have highest percent of jailed parents in the U.S.
Percentage of kids with a jailed parent is double national average Report: 135,000 of state’s children have had a parent incarcerated Kids Count report released Monday by Annie E. Casey Foundation Read more here
Richmond Office Staff Attend Self-Defense Seminar
AppalReD's Richmond Office Staff attended a self-defense seminar at Elite Martial Arts & Fitness. Elite offers free self-defense clinics to the community.
Michael A. Taylor to receive the Donated Legal Services Award
Michael A. Taylor of Middlesboro, KY will be receiving the 2016 Kentucky Bar Association Outstanding Award for Donated Legal Services at this year's convention. Michael A. Taylor serves as a board member with AppalReD Legal Aid. He was n...
Unpaid lawyers helping Conn’s disabled victims recover benefits
Lexington Herald Leader By John Rosenberg Well, it’s about time the feds caught up with lawyer Eric Conn, you say. I agree. But a much larger saga has been playing out in recent months to the detriment of hundreds of disabled Eastern Kentuck...
KBA's Bench & Bar March/April 2016 Features "That Magdeburg Boy - a tribute to John Rosenberg"
A tribute to John Rosenberg by Kentucky's 2015-2016 Poet Laureate George Ella Lyon. "That Magdeburg Boy"