Ryland Barton
Managing Editor for Collaboratives, Kentucky Public RadioRyland Barton is the Managing Editor for Collaboratives for Kentucky Public Radio, a group of public radio stations including WKMS, WFPL in Louisville, WEKU in Richmond and WKYU in Bowling Green. A native of Lexington, Ryland most recently served as the Capitol Reporter for Kentucky Public Radio. He has covered politics and state government for NPR member stations KWBU in Waco and KUT in Austin.
Always looking to put a face to big issues, Ryland's reporting has taken him to drought-weary towns in West Texas and relocated communities in rural China. He's covered breaking news like the 2014 shooting at Fort Hood Army Base and the aftermath of the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas.
Ryland has a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Texas.
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Democrats are celebrating after flipping a Republican state House seat in northern Alabama. Marilyn Lands rode to victory on abortion rights and access to IVF.
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A Texas law empowering state and local police to enforce immigration law is currently blocked, but lawmakers in other states, including Georgia and Iowa, are still passing similar legislation.
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After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos deserve legal protections, reproductive rights groups are worried about fetal personhood bills in several state legislatures.
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Congress has been slow to regulate the artificial intelligence industry, but states have been plowing ahead, proposing and passing laws dealing with AI in elections, fake images and health care.
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Though deemed a hoax, a bomb threat emailed to numerous state government offices across the country underscores the vulnerability of state legislatures to this kind of disruption.
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Former Kentucky Gov. Brereton Jones has died at age 84.Jones was a Democrat who served as Kentucky’s top executive from 1991 until 1995. He also held the office of lieutenant governor from 1987 until 1991 as a part of Gov. Wallace Wilkinson’s administration. -
The conservative legislator from western Kentucky has been a key player in conservative measures that have passed out of Frankfort in recent years. -
Much of Kentucky woke up to hazy skies and unhealthy air quality due to wildfire smoke rolling in from Canada on Wednesday. -
With less than five weeks until this year’s primary election in Kentucky, the gap is tightening between the two Republican frontrunners. -
Some leading elected officials in Kentucky shared thoughts and prayers after the country’s latest mass shooting took place in downtown Louisville. Others called for solutions.
