♪ >> wants to try something.

Because we all want the same thing.

We want to prevent need for ceremonies like this in the future.

>> A call for action on the one-year anniversary of Louisville's old National Bank shooting.

The holy month of Ramadan wrapped up for Kentucky Muslims.

>> It's really introduced to me the type of impact writing can have on people.

And Lexington's.

First Youth poet laureate reflects on her experience.

Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KET Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Wednesday.

April, The 10th.

I'm Kristine Dan Filling in for Renee Shaw.

>> Thank you so much for joining us.

Yesterday, Governor Andy Beshear vetoed House Bill 5, the so-called Safe Kentucky Act.

Details and reaction in tonight's Legislative update.

The bill would mean automatic life sentences for anyone convicted of 3 violent felonies.

It calls for the destruction of guns used in murders.

It creates tougher punishments for carjackers.

The bill would also ban outdoor camping in public spaces.

And that provision has and criticized for hurting the state's homeless.

Speaking last week before the veto, the governor said there were some things in the bill that he like in some things he didn't.

>> The destroying weapons being used in the murder has nothing to do with the response to homelessness.

It just and there's a big difference when you respond.

Homelessness up responding to a violent incident.

We're just a person.

Who is without that home.

And also to worry that the legislation treats and abandoned car better.

The one that has a person sleeping in.

>> The bill sponsor State Representative Jared bomb and a Republican from Louisville put out a statement about the governor's veto of the Safer Kentucky Act.

Quote.

>> I hope that he would take this opportunity to do the right thing as we work to address public safety.

>> A fundamental obligation of government in an issue that unites Kentucky's regardless of where they live.

Instead, he once again uses misinformation and fear mongering to distract from the fact that his action showed he's more concerned about offending criminals than protecting innocent Kentuckians and advocating for victims, unquote.

We'll talk more about this with NPR senior editor Rylan Barton coming up in just a few minutes.

The governor also vetoed a bill requiring a special election to replace a U.S. senator.

If that senator resigns or dies during a term right now, the governor would appoint a temporary senator.

Republican lawmakers have super majorities in both chambers and they will have the chance to override these vetoes when they reconvene Friday and Monday.

The governor did not veto Senate bill.

2, that the bill that allows retired police and military to serve as guardians in schools.

They would not be school resource officers.

The bill will become law without the governor's signature.

The governor signed Senate Bill one which creates a fund to pay for collaborative research among Kentucky's public universities.

It was a top priority.

This session for Senate President Robert Stivers.

Today marks one year since a deadly mass shooting at the Old National Bank in downtown Louisville.

5 people were killed.

Tommy Elliot, Jim tat, Josh Barrick, Juliana farmer, Indiana Eckert, 8 others were injured, including Louisville Metro Police Officer Nick will to survive being shot in the head while responding to the tragedy today in Louisville.

A special ceremony was held in memory of the victims.

Mayor Craig Greenberg used the moment to express his frustration with continued acts of gun violence and he called on anyone who was listening to help.

>> I too, am frustrated by the limits on what we can do as a city to address this problem.

So let's KET working together and with anyone else who will join us to get more help.

More help from our friends in Congress.

More help from our friends in our state legislature.

And that help can come in many different forms.

There are many different strategies that have been proven to work.

So let's try something.

Because we all want the same thing.

We may want to prevent need for ceremonies like this in the future.

And we all want to spare as many families as possible.

The pain that these 5 families who are mourning today, the U and far too many others around our city in our state.

These families.

>> Governor Beshear, who was friends with one of the victims also spoke during today's ceremony.

His comments and more from the service tomorrow on Kentucky Edition.

All Old National Bank locations in Louisville were closed because of today's shooting anniversary and all locations outside of Louisville closed early signs outside the Old National Bank in Lexington, honored those killed in last year's bank shooting employees and other brand bank branches like the one in Evansville, Indiana took part in a walk to remember old National Bank will also hold blood drives all week in cooperation with the Red Cross.

Today, Muslims across the globe and Kentucky are celebrating Eid.

It marks the end of Ramadan the holy month when Muslims fast during the day to show their devotion to holla breaking that fast with family and friends.

It's a joyous occasion.

But as Kentucky Edition, June Leffler reports this aid people are also mourning for those who face near famine and war in Gaza.

>> Muslims gather at Louisville's fairgrounds to pray and give thanks and give themselves a pat on the back for making it through Ramadan.

Meet the person going out to eat, you know, because I've been fast all month to celebrate this fast because you went through a lot and they're going to live.

You didn't eat for the whole day.

You know, so July, but this will be hit in different show.

>> Adult stress in their feed.

Best women and girls adorn Hannah markings just for the occasion.

And everyone embraces their family and friends with hugs, handshakes, ingredients.

>> I had no, I'm happy I aids common sense and mean The key is for these are all just in Arabic and what they mean is happy.

It didn't make God's blessings be upon you and getting congratulations.

We're finishing.

>> Outside of the traditional mosque, the mom leads thousands of people in prayer.

>> We get together here to commit identity each other that we have one full alert you to to war.

And I went on but that this year, is that a bit different?

Because our own joy or happiness, not complete it because of brothers and sisters and that siege in Gaza.

>> The conflict in Gaza has gone on for more than 6 months now since the October 7th Hamas attacks against the Jewish state.

Israel has retaliated with fire in advancement that has killed more than 30,000 Palestinians.

Muslims in Kentucky may be breaking their fast.

The Palestinians are on the brink of famine.

Might.

My speech was to part one part.

>> KET doing the good to slow that we used to do in Ramadan and didn't stop.

And the second part to show kind of solidarity to our brothers and sisters in Gaza to give them some hope.

That's the 2 have brothers and sisters in an anti-state supported them looking for peace, asking our politicians here to act.

The property 2 for ceasefire.

Some Kentucky Muslims are from Gaza.

In fact, Kentucky Muslims represent much of the world.

>> I mean, it is coming from all walks of life, social and economic.

You have people from Somalia from the Middle East, from Asia, from Europe.

We just have a beautiful rainbow of colors of people.

>> On the mosque served the community hub, the newcomers and we have that.

Can brothers and sisters most name and we have that.

The immigrant like me coming from overseas and become like an American citizen.

So we tried to help them to understand the the environment he and the culture here, how to go and buy that the law of the land here and to share of many can citizen and launch.

>> Speaking in many languages and serving different regional foods, Muslims in Kentuckyian across the globe.

Well, also a break, even in their own unique way.

>> I I hope you have a good guy.

>> For Kentucky July.

Sadly today in Philadelphia, there was a shooting at an event.

>> Reports say at least 3 people were injured so far no one has been killed.

♪ >> I'm Walter Rodgers with NPR's Reiland Barton and of course, busy time right now for Governor Andy Beshear has he has a lot of bills coming across his desk that he is taking a look whether to sign whether to veto.

Let's talk reiland about the Safer Kentucky Act.

Governor Beshear has opted to veto that line.

And supporters, GOP lawmakers that were behind this legislation say it would address public safety across would modernize criminal statutes.

What is given the governor pause on this bill?

>> So again, the governor cause on this bill is just how sweeping it's there's so many things in this bill.

He said he supports elements of it.

So for example, there's a a policy in here that would require the destruction of weapons that were used during a murder.

So that's something that's come sparked a lot of debate over the last year.

And it's been kind of a small element of some sort of gun safety reform that the Republican leaders of the legislature So he says he supports something like that.

But then there's other huge elements that he doesn't support something that he singled out was that and all that, that that essentially criminalizes homeless.

It creates a criminal penalties for street camping in Kentucky.

This is something that's there's there's a movement across the country to pass bills like this.

He says that there there hasn't been enough to to really the one thing.

This is a good policy on its face, but also that there's not enough to show how much this is going to cost.

And along with a lot of the other elements in this bill which increased criminal penalties, there hasn't been a fiscal analysis.

So how much is this bill going to cross the state?

There have been estimates liberal leaning Kentucky Center for economic smooth and cost the state about a billion dollars.

But again, there's no official announce that the analysis that the Lrc did, which is something that normally happens that's supposed to happen with bills like this of the state's just kind of quietly would be blindly going passing a bill like this without knowing how much it's going to cost.

So that's one of the bill's easy to grant.

The Legislature can come back in an override that veto very easily if they want to come together.

Just so many different elements.

That bill also includes a street.

The 3 strikes law.

So folks are committed 3 violent offenses would then serve life in prison.

So there's just if the range of this bill is is pretty spectacular.

Stricter penalties for several crimes like that one and others.

All right.

The autonomous vehicles, they'll this would have allowed driverless cars and trucks on Kentucky roads.

>> The governor has vetoed that legislation as well with a lot of support from the Teamsters Labor Union.

Let's talk about this legislation and why you think the governor was not in support of it.

>> Yeah, this is a interesting Bill.

It's something that actually took the locks to pass out of the Legislature.

Republicans for a total united on this.

The reason the governor vetoed this a big reason was because you know, union pressure that unions were not in favor of this bill.

They're worried about how this one up and vote, the Automotive Inc And you have got to do this kind of paved the way to work allowing driverless vehicles.

So last year, the bill very similar to this pass out of the legislature that passed during one of those last days of the legislative session.

So so governor, she was able to veto it.

But lawmakers were able to come back in an override his veto.

So they passed ahead of the veto period this time.

Governor Beshear's veto that.

Now they have the chance to override the veto once again.

But again, there's this is really a slam dunk.

There's some dissension Republicans as to whether or not to pass this.

And there's so many Republicans in the legislature that there might be able to to cobble together enough votes to override the veto.

It only takes a simple majority and Kentucky for a bill like this.

So we'll see what happens.

>> When you say driverless car, a self-driving car, people do get concerned, of course, about safety issues.

But those that have been supported it say it would address that commercial truck driver shortage and what help Kentucky's growing economy.

>> Right.

It does seem like there will be an element of this at some point in the future.

But Legislature's and the federal government had just started to kind of dip their toes into the so bills like this and really, this bill also you know, try to ease the state into the Super choir, a driver to at least be present for the first few years of this.

But folks are concerned and I think we're still kind of seeing how policies like this evolve across the country.

>> And then quickly here, the open records Bill, and we pointed out before people like you need a work of journalism at particular interest in Well, the governor has signaled support for it.

How would it change, how public request public records >> So this would mean that only legislators are government accounts, e-mail accounts of the phone accounts are are subject to the Open Records Act Act.

So any communications that happened over personal emails or personal devices would not be subject to the Open Records Act.

This this would really change a lot of how the Open Records Act works in Kentucky.

Just many other things as well, too.

I really recommend folks to read a Joint Chiefs article in the Herald leader earlier this week that just details all the different things that the Open Records Act has been used over the years to uncover of your problems with government up problems with how tax dollars are being spent.

And even when it comes to an even some of these messages being service in person, text message or something, going back to the early Fletcher Administration.

This is what has led to the political downfall questionnaires through the Open Records act messages that have been, you know, you BlackBerries were discovered showing that there's been a problems of hiring practices.

The transportation Cabinet in Fletcher's administration.

And this led to well, that is good on That the change a lot of of how that administration of working and discovering some some misdeeds there.

So, but there's a long list of this.

A lot of these open records laws were passed in the wake of Watergate, the 1970's with a lot of folks are concerned about how a government officials are operating.

you know, and this is a bill that's really on doing a bit of how those open open records laws are working and I think journalists are concerned about this.

And this is something that all all citizens in Kentucky should be concerned about because you should know how how taxpayer money is being spent and how the officials are working or spending it.

I appreciate you so much.

Thank you as always, for the inside and the perspective.

>> One of the state's largest employers wants to give its workers a raise.

University of Kentucky president doctor Eli Capilouto detailed the schools proposed budget in an email to staff earlier this week.

It includes more than 18 million dollars for salary increases in another 9 million for health benefits, which he says will offset the rising cost of health care.

This raise would not impact UK health care employees is their pain on a different schedule if approved by the board of Trustees Capito says it would be the 11th pay raise for employees in the last 12 years.

>> It is a series of investments in our people without precedent.

The UK's history.

And it is because of who you are and we want you to do.

Policymakers to fund us, understand how the work we do advance is Kentucky and they are continuing to invest in this community.

Families and students believe in the distinctive education that only we provide them.

Their hard-earned dollars are vote of confidence in you.

And in this place.

>> The proposed budget is not an across the board pay raise.

Instead, it's intended to increase salary pools, giving supervisors more flexibility.

Nearly 20,000 people work at UK making it the 11th largest employer in the state.

It's official John Calipari is the new head coach, Arkansas.

The school made the announcement this morning one day after the Hall of Famer stepped down from the head coaching job at Kentucky after a 15 year run the five-year deal comes with 1 1 million dollars signing bonus and a base salary of 7 million dollars a year.

Now, that's a pay cut from the 9 million dollars a year.

He was guaranteed to make at UK over the next 4 years.

Coach Calipari flew to Fayetteville, Arkansas today for his official introduction to Arkansas fans.

♪ >> The Jim Crow era made conditions worse for black people in the south and in Kentucky, it was no different third-year law students at the University of Kentucky are learning just how bad it was and what actions the justice system took to perpetuate him, preserve racist ideas and practices the civil rights and restorative Justice clinic allow students to research cases with racially motivated violence that left black, Kentuckians dead and let the people responsible go unpunished.

>> The project isn't developed exclusively here at Kentucky actually has an origin, northeastern school of law cause.

If there is to investigate cold cases of racial violence and lynchings throughout it.

Jim Crow era throughout the south.

It is they've been moving up from the south and started to touch what they refer to his border states.

It Kentucky and the idea was to try to talk to folks here on the ground here at UK law.

We cannot develop the project ourselves.

So this summer at some sort of justice program in Kentucky is a clinical program.

>> And so we define clinical program by opportunities for students are really getting to engage in real life work, right?

Whether it's representing clients, Duke case, research cetera.

But the work they're doing is not simulated.

It's not hypothetical, right?

It's real world.

>> Right now I'm working on to kind of 3 cases my role is kind of like I call myself a cold case.

Detective so we go through and look at archival materials.

So census records, birth records, World War 2, one draft cards.

>> Stuff like that to get a more full picture of who they were working.

These cases for the 7, 8, months.

>> You do start to feel like, you know them and that you have a connection with time and it can be hard knowing what happened to them in the end with me.

If I like marriage, his kids are like first of their children and then knowing how their life and can be really hard.

We're investigating cold cases, but we're also looking for restorative justice for victims.

We know what happened to them and we know most and that the perpetrators are.

So we just all about her.

But we do need to figure out how to get justice for them.

For some of these people.

But the people who killed them.

Trials.

But it wasn't fair, you know, the element of bias.

But what we're finding in terms of the larger element of this violence >> is that it can be sort of inner personal individual instances, but absolutely first to state sanction been comes to police.

Violence is also kind of becoming a commonality as we look at her.

And I think we were investigating a lot of these cases.

Sometimes it's alleged criminality was the be black in Kentucky.

It's about knowledge that we can't move forward.

and people have trust in whatever systems and and policy changes and whatever work we do.

If we don't actually knowledge with the past truly was people were hurt.

People were harmed that historical memory lives leave scars, right, mentally on families on communities.

So my hope is that what we're able to do >> is that when we're thinking about things like redlining and and and looking at the way the law has been created, whether it's tax law or how we develop parks or whether how we're joeys and whatever that is this information and this knowledge goes into the minds of the people who are in charge of those things.

If they have them in mind, they'll do better the next time.

>> The project was launched as a pilot program last fall.

But UK officials approved it as a clinical course at the law school faculty says they hope to eventually create a database to house the cases and discuss Kentucky civil rights violations.

♪ April is National Poetry Month and Lexington has some great poets.

And some police poets are in high school.

Lexington has a youth poet laureate position and we sat down with the first teen to hold it.

More in tonight's Arts and Culture segment.

We call at the Street.

>> I think I've been on my whole life.

I've always been into beating, inviting wasn't cars writing teacher, Mister McCurry.

He told all of us that would be a exposure to a poetry.

So >> you consider yourself to what so destructive head above the clouds.

Thanks.

Be messy artist.

If nobody elodie or any sense of what the real world is going to show you.

>> I think it's important to remember to write for yourself.

I used to start at writing short stories and so but there is one day I really wanted to write something.

I wasn't sure if it should be a mix of like a short story or I kind of wanted to be like a diaries.

So I just started writing and eventually they just started falling into place just and says, you tell me I am beautiful in your native tongue, but maybe promised to never forget these words.

>> As that they will act as a only tether between me and the culture can never be a part of.

>> I used to think that poetry was very scary and that it was like so many ways to interpret it.

But I found like all those interpretations can really be left up for creative control.

And I really enjoy that part.

A ceramic flowers stuck in a muddy riverbank.

It's petrified existence as we jump from icy rocks.

>> We would hands.

And mine has urged collections became infinite.

>> Poetry is something that is often not look at that and kind of like move to the side and having an opportunity for especially used to do this to spread their voices and to share their opinions of their poetry the beauty of that I think is really important.

Poetry is a creative outlet I found that was really easy to write about and write in whenever I was feeling stressed or down or just.

>> Even happy, even because there's no rules.

So I signed for knowing your rage for sewing their mouth shut because I thought that it would.

I know we make them like you.

To the call that tried.

And so I for giving up for looking out for not looking for another way out.

I hope that so people can take something away from my writing because I think that's all that really matters.

Is that the writing is meaningful and you get something out of it being used the way.

It will be exciting and exhilarating stressful.

But most importantly, >> it will build you.

It is important for you as a writer.

And it is important to the community and the world around you.

He should cherish each moment until you're here today.

Standing and I and handing off the baton to the next.

He's but laureate the next.

He's a poet laureate of Lexington, Kentucky is.

>> So yeah, it's so.

I defend the messages I might add to the canvas of the world.

I live in.

I had to live to the universe's of my own mind to escape the others.

The one >> I eat to live.

>> Everyone knows that it's important to get a good night's sleep.

But for children with sleep disorders, getting enough Z's can be difficult or even impossible.

>> That not many Sikhs enters her out on time that children.

>> How the tempers, Sealy, Pediatric Sleep Center is making it easier than ever to provide sleep studies for the kids that need them.

That's tomorrow on Kentucky edition.

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