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Deborah Yetter

@d_yetter

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Journalist, 40 years with Louisville Times and Courier Journal.

Louisville
Joined May 2011
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@d_yetter
Deborah Yetter
1 year
Some news: Friday was my last day on the job at the Courier-Journal after almost 40 years. It was an exciting, exhausting, rewarding four decades. #outtahere
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Deborah Yetter
1 year
Among the most chilling comments by @LouisvilleMayor was that the assault rifle used in Monday’s mass shooting at the Louisville bank will someday be sold at auction under a Kentucky law that forces police to auction weapons used in crimes rather than destroy them. #massacre
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Deborah Yetter
1 year
Does this mean KY Sen. Rand Paul won’t be chair of Senate health and human services?
@nprpolitics
NPR Politics
1 year
#BREAKING : Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto has narrowly won reelection over Republican Adam Laxalt in Nevada, according to an AP race call. The result means Democrats will retain control of the Senate.
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
Lt. Gov Jacqueline Coleman at news briefing with infant daughter. #kycovid
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Deborah Yetter
2 years
Reporting from the walk in freezer at Frankfort Applebees where the manager just sent us because of pending tornado, it’s cold. #Tornado
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
I can’t thank everyone enough and it just breaks my heart that we can’t be together to celebrate all the good work we all do every day on behalf of people who so desperately need a voice but so often are denied. Never stop fighting for them.
@SPJlouisville
SPJ Louisville
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And the 2020 Journalist of the Year is ... The one and only @d_yetter for her coverage of child abuse in Kentucky. The judge said her reporting "is a forceful but compassionate look at the problem that should spur many into action."
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Deborah Yetter
2 years
CNN reports KY Sen. Rand Paul, who delayed outcome of Supreme Court confirmation vote, was booed when he finally appeared and ignored reporters' questions about why he was late for the vote. #SCOTUSConfirmation
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Deborah Yetter
6 years
Andy Beshear tells Dems at breakfast that If Matt Bevin won’t come to W KY for Fancy Farm, he β€œought to move back to New Hampshire.” Adds, β€œand I know β€œ40,000 teachers willing to help him pack!” #FancyFarm
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Deborah Yetter
6 years
And some video from angry teachers. This does not seem to be dying down. #kyga18
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Deborah Yetter
2 years
Sat next to an older fellow at lunch from Benton KY wearing a Charles Booker button. Told me β€œhe’s got a lot of support down here.” #fancyfarm
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Deborah Yetter
2 years
Lunch at Fancy Farm. Best tomatoes ever. #fancyfarm
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Deborah Yetter
2 years
To everyone who wondered if I made it alive out of the walk in freezer at Frankfort Applebee’s during the tornado warning, yes, yes I did and am safely at home. #Tornadowarning
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Deborah Yetter
2 years
At UK Journalism Hall of Fame event tonight. #hallofame
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Deborah Yetter
3 years
At Mass today, during intentions, the priest asked that the Holy Spirit move anyone who is not vaccinated against COVID to get vaccinated. #Amen
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
Rex Chapman now on MSNBC talking about racial equity and how his black friends were treated differently by police. #protests2020
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
Corbin KY
@cwnewsjournal
The News Journal
4 years
The #BlackLivesMatter rally in downtown Corbin is scheduled to go until 9:30 tonight, and will resume Friday and Saturday evenings.
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Deborah Yetter
7 years
Some of the guys outdoing the ladies. #KyDerby #wheredoyoubuythese ?
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Deborah Yetter
2 years
Had two plumbers from a local company that supposedly follows COVID protocol show up at my house with no masks, they told me they didn’t have any. Then they told me they were unvaccinated. Cancelled apt, asked them to leave. Nearly 7000 new cases today in KY. #kycovid
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Deborah Yetter
2 years
Very cool glass award from UK Journalism Hall of Fame. Cicadas optional. #HallofFame
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Deborah Yetter
2 years
There goes $50 million in additional food stamps for May. Means 544,000 very low income Kentuckians will see, on average, a cut of about $100. Reminder: majority are kids and people 60 or older.
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Joe Sonka 😐
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Also the House and Senate voted to override Beshear’s veto of SJR 150 and HB 4, so those are law. Background on those two:
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Deborah Yetter
12 days
I think it is great that Kentucky has a state beekeeper.
@kentuckyag
KY Dept of Ag
13 days
We are proud to announce Amanda Skidmore, of Oldham County, will join us as the new Kentucky State Apiarist. More here:
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Deborah Yetter
6 months
Brief announcement: for the first time in many years I will not be sitting in a newsroom frantically hitting the refresh key every few seconds for election results. #freeatlast
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Deborah Yetter
1 year
Hey @LouPubMedia , just heard your fundraising promo touting your success β€œas other media outlets struggle to stay relevant.” As a sustaining member I request you avoid digs at other outlets where my friends work hard to report the news, sometimes under difficult conditions.
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Deborah Yetter
9 months
If you are following this story out of Kansas about a police raid on a small town community newspaper, I recommend Kansas Reflector, which as been on it from the start and is a affiliate of Kentucky Lantern.
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
Spectators dressed in Handmaids Tale garb at House Judiciary to oppose two abortion bills. #kyga20
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
Gov Beshear announced he is restoring Kynect, the state online health insurance exchange Bevin shut down. Story TK. #kyhealth #cjnews
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Deborah Yetter
1 year
OMG, KET footage from my first appearance on Comment on KY, circa 1995. #commentonky
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
Sen Alice Forgy Kerr, R-Lex, announcing she is filing a bill to ban conversion therapy aimed at making gays straight. She calls it a β€œdiscredited practice” and β€œbarbaric.” #kyga2020
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Deborah Yetter
1 year
While GOP lawmakers obsess over trans kids and library books, KY consistently ranks high in child abuse and neglect directly linked to extreme poverty, caregiver addiction, family violence and mental illness. Those represent the real threats to KY kids.
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Deborah Yetter
1 year
My Day in Family Court: Our Lawmakers Are Focused on the Wrong Things, by Bonnie Jean Feldkamp | Creators Syndicate
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Deborah Yetter
11 months
A nice remembrance of Virginia Moore, who became a reassuring presence to many of us during the pandemic. β€˜She changed the world.' Kentucky honors the late Virginia Moore via @KYLantern
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Deborah Yetter
6 months
Daniel Cameron giving a gracious concession speech, says he called Beshear to congratulate him. What a difference 4 years makes. #kygovernor
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
Nice to hear Gov Beshear speak highly of longtime Frankfort reporter Ronnie Ellis who died today. He was due some respect. #presscorps
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Deborah Yetter
7 years
AP reports pizza store in Bowling Green donating proceeds from BG Massacre pizza to Southern Pov Law Center. #BowlingGreenMasacre
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
Just had a young woman come to my house at 9 pm going door to door for Charles Booker. First time I recall anyone from a US Senate campaign come to the house. #KYSen
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Deborah Yetter
2 years
⁦ @JoshuaADouglas ⁩
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Deborah Yetter
1 year
@AVMcNeill Thank you Andrew. I have received many kind and cordial comments since my departure from the CJ. Yours was not among them.
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Deborah Yetter
1 year
KY Gov. Andy Beshear on MSNBC ahead of tonight’s state of commonwealth address. #ky2023
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Deborah Yetter
1 year
So remind me why civilians should be able to get assault rifles?
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LMPD
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LMPD Body Camera video from 333 E. Main St. on 4-10-23. #LMPD
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Deborah Yetter
10 months
Is there a similar interest in records of men from their urologists or other providers who might treat, for example, STD, ED, or whatever?
@Joe_Gerth
Joe Gerth
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Hey ladies, Daniel Cameron wants to peep your unmentionables β€” and by β€œunmentionables,” I mean records held by your on/gyn.
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
Hi Twitterati: This is me working in the newsroom in a power outage. Subscribe during our flash sale so we can keep shedding light in the dark. #cjnews
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Deborah Yetter
6 years
Sign at Dundee Tavern in the Highlands. #JCPS #heartsandminds
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
Announcing a big move today. After 3 months working from dining room table, decided to move to standup desk (kitchen counter). #Covid_19
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Deborah Yetter
3 years
Not sure what everyone’s doing on a rainy afternoon but I’m having a glass of champagne sent to this year’s winners of the Presentation Academy Tower Awards so we could toast each other on Zoom. #presentationacademy
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Deborah Yetter
2 years
Sen. Schickel's comment that "people are in it for the money" in public schools, as well as charter schools, draws audible laughter. #KYGA22
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Deborah Yetter
1 month
Farewell to longtime CJ journalist Sheldon Shafer, who left us early this morning a day before his induction into the KY Journalism Hall of Fame. Here he is at a bench dedicated to him at Louisville’s’ Waterfront Park.
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Deborah Yetter
5 years
I didn’t think Ken Burns country music documentary could get any better but tonight’s episode featuring Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton defied expectations. #PBScountrymusic
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Deborah Yetter
3 years
Guy passing by U of L on a bicycle shouts β€œI am too!”
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Deborah Yetter
3 years
I’m gonna take it, Beshear tells reporters who ask what to tell people nervous about vaccine. #CovidVaccines
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
The Capitol ready for inauguration. #KYGov
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
Maybe it’s me but I sense a new level of urgency from Gov. Andy Beshear and Dr. Steven Stack, public health commissioner, in today’s 5 pm coronovirus briefing. #COVID19
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Deborah Yetter
8 months
@CallowayforKy @AndyBeshearKY Don’t mean to nitpick but if someone is β€œ100 % pro-life” wouldn’t that exclude the death penalty?
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Deborah Yetter
1 year
Thanks, Am overwhelmed by all the kind comments.
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Tessa Duvall πŸ“°
1 year
Honored to have shared the Comment on Kentucky stage with THE Queen of Kentucky Media herself, @d_yetter , on the day of her retirement. I meant it when I said you made Kentucky better and so many women in journalism in this state want to be you when we grow up. πŸ‘‘πŸβ€οΈ
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Deborah Yetter
5 years
KY student journalists score: High school journalists were barred from a Betsy DeVos event. So they took her to task in an editorial.
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Deborah Yetter
5 years
An estimable career. We love you, Tom. Tom Loftus retires after 35 years of reporting on state politics for The Courier Journal via ⁦ @courierjournal ⁩
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
Wearing Journos face mask for news conference at Capitol today. Thx @teri_atthepaper
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Deborah Yetter
1 year
All I have to say is that if you look closely, you can see my cicada pin Retired Courier Journal reporter Debby Yetter honored as a 'champion for children' via @courierjournal
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Deborah Yetter
6 months
Our maple tree.
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Deborah Yetter
7 years
Organizers now say 5,000 at Move Forward rally today in Louisville. #MoveForwardLou
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Deborah Yetter
5 years
The teachers are back at the Capitol. #kyga19
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Deborah Yetter
6 years
US Rep. John Yarmuth, D -Louisville, stops by CJ newsroom with donuts as gesture of support for journalists following Capital Gazette newsroom shootings. #cjmedia
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Deborah Yetter
7 days
Another fab CJ photo.
@MClevenger_CJ
Michael Clevenger
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Mystik Dan wins the 150th Running of the Kentucky Derby @ChurchillDowns @courierjournal @UKGranger
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Deborah Yetter
1 year
Why are these male legislators obsessed with girls’ menstrual cycles? Seems rather creepy.
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Em McKiernan
1 year
Can y’all not outlaw this or my menstrual supply drawer? Like what are we doing as a country?
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
Please read to the very end this excellent piece by KY’s Silas House. Especially the end.
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
Senate is now reading into the record a resolution from state Sen. David Givens in honor of Kentucky political journalist Ronnie Ellis, who died recently. Givens says the work of such journalists in KY is "profoundly important." #kyga20
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Deborah Yetter
1 year
@JamesFallows @danwootton Isn’t there a reason U.S. presidents wouldn’t attend coronation of British monarch?
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Deborah Yetter
2 years
Justice Sotomayor notes the Biden admin vaccine order isn't a mandate, workers can either get vaccinated or be tested and wear a mask on the job. #COVID2022
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
C’mon people, not the library!
@ladd_sarah
Sarah Ladd
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Broken glass and flare inside library on third
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Deborah Yetter
6 years
They’re everywhere! Teachers staking our hallway outside room where Budget conference committee to meet at 8:30. #kyga18
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Deborah Yetter
2 years
Greetings, KY COVID watchers. As we head into the weekend, please note that state is now fully red, meaning all 120 counties have high rates of COVID spread. #kycovid
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
Re KY Rep Savannah Maddox measure to let business claiming harm from shut down sue him: Andy Beshear - Isn’t that silly? I’m trying to save lives. #coronavirus
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Deborah Yetter
6 years
This is a stunning piece about a quality couple The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly in his Georgia hometown
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Deborah Yetter
2 years
Thanks to everyone for the kind comments on my induct into KY Journalism Hall of fame. In other new, today’s splinter extraction a success! #kyjhof
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Deborah Yetter
5 years
@danielle_lerner Did not know this story. Thanks for posting.
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
My late father who served in World War ll. #militarymen
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Deborah Yetter
2 years
I think we can all agree that the switch to daylight saving time is the worst week of the year. #stopthetimechange
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Deborah Yetter
5 years
Good bye to Jamie Lucke, a champion for KY who truly understood the rich heritage of E Ky. Godspeed. Readers of the HL have been richer for your work.
@BGPolitics
Bluegrass Politics
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In her farewell editorial, Jamie Lucke asks for kindness for the mountains of Kentucky. No more prisons or strip mines or slurry spills. ^JC
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Deborah Yetter
5 years
Twitter peeps, please read this obit in today’s CJ. β€œI was just doing my job.” #cjsunday
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Deborah Yetter
2 years
Well here I am at the dr office waiting to get splinter extracted from hand and just saw this. Very surprised and honored to be among such a group!
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Kakie Urch
2 years
Rhymes with "Better" than most of us. @d_yetter
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Deborah Yetter
1 year
Now there’s an idea!
@KYLantern
Kentucky Lantern
1 year
β€œIt needs to be dialogue between a doctor and their patients and keep big government out of it,” says . @RyanQuarlesKY of decision to use medical marijuana.
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Deborah Yetter
3 years
Geriatric journalist assemblage in Frankfort today at Sage restaurant. Thanks Tom Loftus (right) for organizing. #Journos
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Deborah Yetter
9 months
This is awesome.
@sherman_news
Sherman Smith
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The latest edition of the Marion County Record #ksleg
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Deborah Yetter
4 years
Just another Saturday night at home. #cheers
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Deborah Yetter
1 year
I am dumbfounded Tennessee Republicans can simply kick out three members of legislature who were elected by voters of their districts.
@AP
The Associated Press
1 year
GOP lawmakers are handing out harsh punishments for their Democratic colleagues, including potentially expelling three legislators in Tennessee. Experts say it's a sign that political polarization is at its highest level since just after the Civil War.
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Deborah Yetter
3 years
This is actually an historic event.
@LucasAulbach
Lucas Aulbach
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UPS dude behind me: β€œThe bird is here.” Coronavirus vaccines have landed in Louisville.
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