AppalReD Hosts Notre Dame Law Students
October 18, 2016
Notre Dame Law Students are using their Fall Break to assist AppalReD with research and a pro se Divorce Clinic (do-it-yourself Divorce Clinic to assist low-income people secure an uncontested divorce without using a lawyer) which will be held on hel...
Prestonsburg man wins prestigious award
September 30, 2016
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (WYMT) - John Rosenberg has many awards hanging on his walls, and two weeks ago he received another one. Rosenberg, who lives in Prestonsburg, was honored at the Fourth Annual Muhammad Ali awards. He received the Kentucky Humanit...
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August 29, 2016
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Rosenberg to Receive Ali Kentucky Humanitarian Award
August 25, 2016
John Rosenberg, who is the founding director of the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, will receive the Muhammad Ali Kentucky Humanitarian Award during the fourth annual awards ceremony in Louisville on September 17th.
Beyond Coal: Imagining Appalachia’s Future
August 17, 2016
To offset lost mining jobs, officials, business leaders and environmentalists are setting aside political feuds to try to create an entrepreneurial economy. By SHERYL GAY STOLBERGAUG. 17, 2016 PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Here in the heart of central A...
2016 Pro Bono Publico Award Recipient: John O. Goss
August 09, 2016
John O. Goss, a legal aid lawyer some 40 years ago, responded to a nationwide call to help some 1,500 Social Security disability recipients in rural Appalachian high-poverty counties in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. The recipients were in dange...
AppalReD's Somerset Office Attends Back to School Extravaganza
August 08, 2016
AppalReD Legal Aid's Somerset Office Staff attended the Pulaski County "Back to School Extravaganza" on Saturday, August 6, 2016.
AppalReD Announces Uncontested Divorce Clinic
July 28, 2016
AppalReD Legal Aid announces its second do-it-yourself Divorce Clinic to assist low-income people secure an uncontested divorce without using a lawyer. The clinic will be held on October 19, 2016, beginning at 1:00 pm at the Floyd County Extension Of...
The simple change that could get affordable food to the poor people who need it
July 18, 2016
The simple change that could get affordable food to the poor people who need it The Washington Post There's an elegant solution to help poor people overcome a problem that can leave them both hungry and unhealthy. Read the full story