UK fires coach Mark Stoops after two crushing defeats to end the Kentucky season.

>> We are building a campaign rooted in Mountain Democrat values.

>> A candidate for Congress talks about being a mountain Democrat.

>> Well, let's go play.

Let's figure this out.

And if it'll work for you or not.

>> And a Northern Kentucky Resource Center has the equipment needed to help developing children, teens and adults.

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

>> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky Edition for Monday, December the 1st.

I'm Kelsey Starks here in our Louisville studio, filling in tonight for Renee Shaw.

Well, we are bracing for our first winter storm of the season.

Freezing rain, sleet, and snow are all possibilities.

The National Weather Service says we could begin to see some accumulation late tonight and early tomorrow morning.

A general 1 to 3in of snow is possible.

Louisville and Northern Kentucky could get the most snow.

You can see on this map showing just how much snow could fall where you live.

The National Weather Service says this storm is expected to impact tomorrow morning's commute.

Former Democratic state Representative Sherilyn Stevenson officially filed her candidacy papers today for Kentucky's sixth congressional district, a seat currently held by Representative Andy Barr.

Stevenson was joined by Kentucky Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman, as well as Eddie Devine, the business manager for Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 369.

Earlier today, Stevenson released a new campaign video emphasizing her identity as a mountain Democrat.

>> This campaign isn't about me, it's about us.

It's about the people who are getting squeezed from every direction, from higher costs to health care cuts to uncertainty in their jobs.

And politicians in Washington who are more focused on fighting each other than fighting for you.

Today is the next step in our journey to flip the sixth district and to take back Congress.

We are building a campaign rooted in Mountain Democrat values, hard work, fairness, and the belief that every single family should not just get by, but get ahead.

I grew up with nurses and coal miners and teachers and folks like that who make Kentucky go every single day.

And we are always stronger when we're together.

And Mountain Democrats don't believe in rigging the system for the few at the expense of the many.

We believe in always putting people over politics.

And that is a message that we're going to carry to all 16 counties.

And we believe that that's a winning message.

>> The fact that.

>> Stevenson represented Kentucky's 88th district in the state House from 2019 until 2025, when Republican Vanessa Grosso won the seat by 125 votes.

She is one of four Democrats running for the sixth district seat in next year's primary.

Vice president JD Vance was in Kentucky just before the Thanksgiving holiday.

Vance, who served in the Marine Corps, spent some time with troops at Fort Campbell.

His aides enlisted the help of a Kentucky company for his on stage remarks.

Laura Rogers brings us more.

>> It was a week ago today that a Logan County printing company received an interesting phone call.

>> It said that the vice president is going to be in Clarksville, and they've asked us to print some signs for them.

>> The first reaction was is vice president of Ware, vice president of the United States?

And I said, seriously, the United States.

>> Turns out it was the vice president needing signage for remarks at Fort Campbell the very next day.

>> The first he said, there's no way that we're going to pull this off.

And then you come to find out it's the vice president of the United States is like, I think we're going to make this happen.

>> The vice president's staff provided the artwork to Gerald Printing's Russellville office, who created those signs for his Thanksgiving greetings at Fort Campbell last Wednesday.

>> It feels good to be that person that they call to to have that done.

>> The company serves clients across the country, but says this was one of their most exciting projects.

>> So excited that when Travis was back there producing the sign, he was a nervous wreck.

>> The company has produced work in Fort Campbell before, including the brick ramp on the railroad bridge near the army base.

>> Huge, huge project that we did many years ago.

>> Eight people work in Russellville office.

>> I think everybody in the building got a little involved in this one to make sure they had their hands in something for the vice president.

>> In his speech to Fort Campbell soldiers, Vice President Vance says the administration wants to prepare the U.S.

military for the age of modern warfare.

>> In this new generation of warfare, we need to give you the technology and the training to be the very best.

>> He also referenced Secretary of War Pete Hegseth new fitness standards.

>> We owe it to your moms and dads, your grandmas and grandpas to only send the very best people off to foreign conflicts.

And that is why we care so much about standards.

>> Vance called Thanksgiving his favorite American holiday for its spirit of gratitude for Kentucky Edition.

I'm Laura Rogers.

>> Along with his remarks, Vice President Vance and his wife also served soldiers in early Thanksgiving meal.

Former state Representative Jody Hayden died last week, one day after losing his wife, Carolyn Greenwell.

Hayden died November 23rd.

She was 78.

Her obituary says she died surrounded by family.

Her husband, Jody Hayden, died the next day.

Both were from Bardstown.

Jody Hayden served in the Kentucky House of Representatives for eight years.

The Democrat was first elected in 1996.

Jody Hayden was 80 years old.

A funeral service for Hayden's was held over the weekend in Bardstown.

Easter Seals Redwood is a nonprofit that supports veterans, people with disabilities, and those experiencing financial hardships in Northern Kentucky.

The office also has an Assistive Technology Resource center that's providing equipment for all Kentuckians.

So what is assistive technology and who can use it?

Our Emily Sisk has those answers as she gives us an up close look at the Northern Kentucky Resource Center.

>> When Shelly Lane comes in to the Easterseals Redwood office in Fort Mitchell, she puts a smile on everyone's face.

>> You can't really think about Easterseals Redwood at this location without thinking about Shelly.

She's just this presence and this beacon of joy.

>> Shelly communicates through what's called an augmented alternative communication device, which is connected to her motorized wheelchair.

At the click of a few icons on her screen, Shelly has access to 7000 words.

When I asked her about the equipment, she had this to say.

>> Without my communication device, I would be bored.

>> The equipment Shelly uses and all of the equipment at Easterseals Redwoods Resource Center is known as Assistive technology.

It includes anything from high tech communication to developmental toys for children and special readers for older adults.

>> We have.

>> Just about anything that you could think of that would be able to help someone.

>> It also includes walkers and trainers for preschoolers like Oakley, who need a little extra help with their mobility.

>> She just lights up when she gets to play with everything, and so she has used just about anything in this, this room.

>> The purpose of the Assistive Technology Resource Center is for anyone to be able to try out equipment before they purchase it themselves.

Julie Hermann, the clinical director of Easterseals Redwood, said this helps individuals save time and money.

>> Some of these devices are incredibly expensive, and you don't want to spend money on something that is not going to meet the needs of the individual that you got it for.

>> I don't want to go out and buy all this expensive stuff and find out this is not going to help me.

>> This location is one of five resource centers across the state as part of the Kentucky Assistive Technology System.

The workers emphasize that any Kentucky resident, regardless of financial status, can come try out the equipment for 30 days.

And for parents who have a child up to three years old who isn't hitting developmental milestones, the state of Kentucky pays for even longer rentals.

>> If a family ends up having a child that has some level of medical complexity or disability or something like that, they might not even know where to start.

>> For folks interested in seeing what all resources are available, the workers suggested to come on in and test things out.

>> I've had actually therapists that come in and like I've not used any of this equipment.

Can you please show me what is this one?

What this one does or how I can get this?

And I'm like, well, let's go play.

Let's figure this out.

And if it'll work for you or not.

>> For Kentucky Edition, I'm Emily Sisk.

>> Thank.

>> They Easterseals Redwood office rented out 400 pieces of assistive technology just last year.

Well, the developer behind Louisville's thriving Nulu neighborhood has his sights set on a new part of town.

Gill Holland has been working to revitalize Louisville's Portland neighborhood for more than a decade now, securing more than $100 million in investment projects.

The most recent is a $35 million project called The Liminal that will transform historic warehouses into 138 apartments and 20,000ft█!S of commercial space.

I sat down with Gill Holland from the Portland Investment Initiative and Kathy Farrington, partner with Antecedent Development, to learn more.

In tonight's Business Beat.

Well, we are happy to be with Gill Holland and Kathy Farrington here in our Louisville studio.

Thank you all for being here.

What an exciting time for the Portland neighborhood, this groundbreaking of the liminal development is huge for this area, but like we were saying, it's been in the works for a very long time.

And Gill, you you talked more than ten years ago about your investment in this neighborhood.

Why, why did you think it was important to invest in the Portland neighborhood?

>> Yeah.

Well, so, you know, Portland's one of the most historic.

It was the historic sister city to Louisville.

Lewis and Clark left from Portland.

Abraham Lincoln had his first paying job digging the Portland Canal.

It's where he first saw slaves being traded.

You could argue the seeds of the Emancipation Proclamation are in the Portland neighborhood.

And it was, you know, a sister city.

It's a very resilient neighborhood.

It was underwater in the 37 flood and the 45 flood.

But this historic warehouse district, you know, lots of other cities, most other cities have already revitalized their warehouse districts.

So I feel like people know what a warehouse district is supposed to be.

It's supposed to be cool off departments.

It's supposed to be some funky art artists hanging out art galleries.

We have the Louisville Visual Arts Association, we have the portal.

So it seemed like a no brainer to me, being right next to downtown and also with the the all the investment going into Waterfront Park, the final phase for Waterfront Park, which is right on our front.

Front step.

>> Yeah.

And the project is with Antecedent Development.

Tell us about this project and what people can expect.

What's it going to look like?

So this project is taking a historic brick warehouse that used to be a part of a paint manufacturing conglomerate a hundred years ago, and converting it into 137 apartments.

These apartments will have beautiful top of the line amenities, including a fitness center, a community center, a clubhouse, an outdoor kitchen.

And as Gil mentioned, it's right next to the expansion of the waterfront park, so they will have the best access of anyone west of ninth Street to this new, exciting waterfront park that's being built.

We are taking these buildings, these apartments, and we're helping to make them affordable to the average worker in Louisville.

So they will be priced at 80% area median income, which means if you earn $54,000, you'll be able to afford these apartments no problem.

And the goal is to create beautiful housing for the backbone of the workforce in Louisville, and the folks that work and live near downtown.

And you mentioned that affordability.

>> And obviously, because it's in this neighborhood that is underserved right now, I would imagine that's part of it.

But it's part of tax credits, too, are making it affordable.

>> That's exactly right.

So we used historic tax credits, both federal and Kentucky, historic tax credits and economic development and brownfields loans from the city of Louisville to make the prices below market rate without having to restrict the apartments to any particular kind of person.

>> Yeah, and like most of the projects that you're working on, it's all about the bigger picture a lot of times.

Right.

And so the bigger picture with this, I would imagine, is like you mentioned, that downtown accessibility and it really is going to revitalize downtown in Louisville as a whole is the point, right?

>> Yeah.

All these historic neighborhoods, and you can literally walk to downtown if you have a job downtown.

And we need more downtown housing.

We have 30,000 families on the affordable housing wait list.

So, I mean, 137 units, it's a a splash in the bucket.

But, you know, we'll take it a drop in the bucket.

And they're they're going to be beautiful.

And then you know Kentucky does a great job with its historic tax credits because we have all these historic buildings that they're all need more money than they're technically worth to revitalize and rehab.

So you have to have some kind of tax credit because otherwise they will just continue falling apart and falling down.

And we lose our historic heritage and this cultural fabric.

So I feel like that's why Louisville is also kind of ahead of the curve.

When you look at Atlanta.

And I know they've grown more in Austin and Nashville, they've grown more, but they have lost so much of their cultural, historic fabric because they've torn down.

They have not saved some of these great old buildings.

So this these warehouses are so cool.

And it's like Tribeca, literally the first time I went there 15 years ago, because you would always hear like, don't go west of ninth Street.

Of course, for me, I'm like, I go straight west on ninth Street, right when I moved to Louisville and I'm like, oh my gosh, this should be like New Orleans.

This is like the most beautiful.

This is like Tribeca.

So having lived in New York, yeah, I was like, you know, it's going to take a lot of money because these are big buildings.

They're not just the little traditional shotgun, 1850s shotgun that I started rehabbing in Portland.

So, you know, canopy was nice enough to let me help out on this project.

>> And.

>> You know, four years later, we finally had our groundbreaking.

>> Yeah, it is so.

And your development firm is calls itself a mission driven commercial real estate.

And explain what that means.

>> That means that we only develop projects that we think are going to have a really significant community impact.

We focus on historic renovation, like the liminal project, helping to preserve the neighborhood's heritage while building its future.

But we also focus on workforce housing and on making sure that there's enough housing for everyone to live in beautiful places close to where they work, so that every family can have a really lovely home.

And so when we decide which projects we want to focus on, we use that lens, the community impact lens.

>> Yeah, yeah.

>> And you know, I call what we do urban acupuncture because, you know, try to take away like the negative ripple effect of a vacant abandoned property and then replace it with a nice place that's attainable housing or a nonprofit that needs cheap rent or an artist that needs cheap rent.

And then you have this positive ripple effect.

Because when I started in the Portland neighborhood, 1 in 4 buildings was vacant and and or abandoned.

Yeah.

So we got, you know, that's a lot of people that can kind of move back into Portland just to get to the density that it had in 1936.

>> Yeah.

And a lot of the I'm curious what it's like for you to to see something like this that will really be an anchor of this neighborhood.

I know you've been working on this a long time, and like you said, those little projects here, this popping up here.

But for something like this, this is transformative.

>> Yeah.

I mean, I remember when, you know, like, garage Barr first came to East Market Street and I was like, okay, this is like things are starting to happen, you know, and I always joke like, you know, that was when I was like, if I get hit by a bus, nulu is going to be fine.

And now I'm like, when, when people like Cappie are coming to the Portland neighborhood, that's a huge get for Portland.

And I'm like, okay, great.

This is going to start happening.

And you know, Painter's Row is is a slightly smaller.

It's 100 units, slightly less expensive, but still 20 plus million dollars.

And so when that finished and opened and I moved my office and over there I was like, that was the next day.

So it's like all these little, little steps, little steps, but, you know, long big picture, you know, and I will die before all 1400 of the vacant abandoned properties that were there 12 years ago are revitalized.

>> It's worth underscoring just how much momentum the neighborhood has already been experiencing, and we feel like we're just joining the story.

As Gil mentioned, there's the Painter's Row apartment building that's across the street.

But even before Painter's Row went into place, there's the peerless distillery that's down the road.

There's really an arts district that's starting to emerge.

There's the 1512 Creative Compound, the portal, which is a community event space.

There's a bookstore.

There's the visual, the Louisville Visual Arts studios.

There's this amazing community that's really starting to emerge.

And we're excited to be developing beautiful housing for them.

>> Yeah, and the Portland Museum is doing great stuff.

And the project is going to be the first children's museum, I think, in the whole state of Kentucky.

You know, there's another local, you know, a lot of the local Portland folks that have been there for years, decades, generations.

There's new businesses starting to pop up as well, because I think lots of people are now seeing like, okay, it's worth investing in this neighborhood.

>> Yeah, it's it's going to be exciting to see what happens.

Thank you all so much for being here.

We appreciate it.

And the project is expected to be completed in 2027.

Mark Stoops, coach of the University of Kentucky Football Wildcats for 13 years, is out.

More in tonight's look at sports news.

UK fired Coach Stoops today after a five and seven season.

In a statement, UK Athletics director Mitch Barnhart said the university informed Stoops it had decided to go in a new direction.

UK will begin a national search now for Stoops replacement.

In his 13 years at UK, Stoops had a win loss record of 82 and 80.

Kentucky went to eight consecutive bowl games, winning four of them, but had back to back losing seasons the last two years.

Stoops was fired days after Kentucky was shut out at Louisville.

The Cardinals won Saturday's game 41 to 0, keeping the Governor's Cup in the Derby City.

Freshman Braxton Jennings and Sean Boykins both ran for more than 100 yards, helping Louisville overcome significant injuries and ending a three game losing streak.

Louisville ended the season eight and four, making them bowl eligible for a fifth straight season, where they'll play their bowl game and who they'll face are still up in the air.

Sticking with sports here, the UK volleyball team is making history of its own.

The Wildcats are the overall number two seed in the NCAA Volleyball Championship.

They are the number one seed in the Lexington Regional and will play Wolford Thursday night at historic Memorial Coliseum.

Kentucky was undefeated in SEC play this year and won the SEC championship with a reverse sweep of Texas.

Louisville is a two seed in the tournament, and Western Kentucky University is a seven seed.

Well, this holiday season, how will tariffs and artificial intelligence affect how you shop?

We talked to a University of Kentucky professor for some insights.

>> Yes, we're seeing tariffs.

But it does mean 100% of the tariffs is going into the price.

Right.

Because price is a very complex decision that is actually mainly driven by competition.

But we are seeing that because of the tariffs, some stores stopped carrying products.

That's the cost is too high.

So we're seeing for example, there is a high percent tariff on pharmaceutical drugs and we're seeing tariffs on furniture or things like kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities.

So if people are waiting to buy those kind of like larger ticket items, maybe to remodel their homes, there may be increased price, or maybe they have less varieties to choose from.

The biggest discounts we see are products that have fierce competition or products have really high markups, because if it's really high markups, it's easier for them to say 60% off without really affecting their costs.

So those I would imagine, some sort of mass market apparel basics that is not impacted by tariffs because some stores actually increase their inventory a lot.

Right?

They bulked up their inventory prior to tariffs so they can stay competitive.

They can still keep the low price.

And then I would imagine last generation electronics.

Right.

Your iPhone 16 or some sort of used devices.

Those are could be items that people could save money on because it's not impacted by tariffs.

Sometimes stores will markup their price and then give you a discount.

So the price that you end up paying actually may not be as low as you think.

So I would if I can remember right, I can compare perhaps online.

A lot of people start carrying their smart devices with them to see if that price you're seeing is actually a discounted price.

If it's actually lower, smaller businesses are they're having a harder time to adjust to all this price competition, right?

They're smaller.

They don't have as much as pricing power.

They may not be able to, you know, buy a lot of products in their inventory to get the discount.

So they may have a harder winter this year.

I would try a little bit more to go to those smaller businesses just to keep them in the competition.

>> This year, shoppers can also expect to see a lot more AI involvement when shopping online.

Some, like Amazon, are using artificial intelligence to track prices, allowing consumers to automatically buy a product if the price drops below a certain point.

Details tonight on a deadly boat collision on the Ohio River.

And why did Kentucky pick Frankfort to be the state capital?

Our Toby Gibbs has all of that.

In a look back at this Week in Kentucky history.

>> On December 1st, 1776, Virginia divided its territories west of the Appalachian Mountains into three counties.

One of them was Kentucky County, which would eventually become the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

A commission chose Frankfort to be Kentucky's capital city on December 5th, 1792, just a few months after Kentucky became a state.

Several towns placed bids to become the capital, but Frankfort pledged land building materials and $3,000 cash.

The Louisville and Portland Canal opened on December 3rd, 1830.

By bypassing the Falls of Ohio, it allowed ships to travel all the way from Pittsburgh to the Mississippi River.

Happy birthday to George Washington Buckner, a native of Greensburg born December 1st, 1855.

He was a doctor and diplomat and would serve as U.S.

Ambassador to Liberia from 1913 to 1915.

Confederate forces burned the Montgomery County Courthouse on December 2nd, 1863.

Union forces were using the courthouse as a military post.

Some records were saved, others were destroyed.

Two passenger steamers crashed in the Ohio River near Warsaw in Gallatin County on December 4th, 1868.

The steamer United States carried kerosene which caught fire in the collision.

The fire spread to the other steamer, the America.

162 people died.

Louisville native Paul Hornung won college football's Heisman Trophy on December 4th, 1956, as he led the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in passing, rushing, scoring, kickoff and punt returns, and punting.

And those are a few of the big events this week in Kentucky history.

I'm Toby Gibbs.

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