♪ >> Maybe it's a strong governor.

I certainly wouldn't want to be known as the week.

A look back at the political careers of Governor Julian Carroll.

♪ Kentucky gets hit again with a tornado in December.

Through programs like this.

People are not only what's important about how to advocate for people.

And a fellowship at the University of Kentucky teachers, medical students about healthcare.

Any bodies to help them care for black patients.

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♪ ♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION from Monday December.

11th, I'm Krista getting filling in for Renee Shaw.

Thank you for joining us.

>> We begin with breaking news from Frankfort, Judge Phillip Shepherd has blocked Kentucky's mechanism for funding charter schools.

According to the Lexington Herald-Leader Shepherd says House Bill 9 which set up the funding mechanism is unconstitutional because it allows public money to fund nonpublic schools.

Charter schools use public money but are operated by independent groups will have more on this in the coming days.

Our other top story tonight, former Kentucky Governor Julian Carroll has died at the age of 92.

The Democrat served as governor from from 1972.

So I'm sorry from 1974.

To 1979.

He led efforts to improve public schools and modernize the judicial system during an eventful tenure.

Our June Leffler has a look back at Carol's careers.

Good evening, Carol led the Commonwealth during a time when Democrats were used to controlling the governor seat.

>> Reacting to news of his death.

Current Democratic Governor Andy Beshear said, Carol, quote, dedicated his careered to public service in his tribute to Carroll, Kentucky, Senate President Robert Stivers, a Republican said, quote, If you will have a careers as distinguished as his Kentucky House speaker David Osborne, also a Republican offered his deepest sympathies to Carroll's family and noted the former governor's decades long political life born in 1931.

In McCracken County.

Carroll was one of 11 children.

He served as an Air force attorney for 3 years after graduating from the University of Kentucky Law School in 1956. in 1960, he led a campaign to allow the Tennessee Valley Authority to provide electricity to McCracken County, which led to lower electricity costs.

This success led the stage for Carroll's long political careers.

Carol served 5 terms in the Kentucky House, including the stunt as House speaker from 1968 to 1970, he was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1971. and became the 54th governor of Kentucky in 1974.

When Governor Wendell Ford resigned to take a seat in the U.S. Senate running a year later as an incumbent, he easily won the election to a full term of his own.

The test of government.

Many government.

Is in its accountability to the citizens.

>> Carol, push to eliminate the private bail bond system.

And during his term, the state invested heavily in teacher salaries and provided free textbooks.

He established a school building authority to help poor school districts build new schools and Kentucky strengthened its fire safety laws following the deadly fire at the Beverly Hills separate club in northern Kentucky, Carol, then took on an elevated leadership role as chairman of the National Governors Association.

But there was some controversy, federal grand jury investigation led to the indictment of the former chairman of the Kentucky Democratic Party in a fraud scheme.

Carroll was never charged 8 years after leaving office, Carol attempted a comeback but failed to stand out in the crowded Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Here he is speaking during a primary debate in 1987 never before.

>> And the history of this state, certainly in our lifetimes that we faced more critical problems in Kentucky state government that we face We've got one crisis after another Frankfort.

>> A few decades later in 2004, he won a seat in the Kentucky Senate where he served until 20 22,000.

Carroll was one of 8 former Kentucky governor's to join a roundtable discussion here at KET.

He was asked what he would like his legacy as governor to be.

>> Well, I'd like to be best remembered for the fact that I KET something about state government.

I grew up in state government was a hands on governor and ran it.

And quite frankly, I hopefully in the public interest, maybe it's a strong governor.

I certainly wouldn't want to be known as a weak government.

>> The governor for Kentucky edition, I'm John Leffler occasion.

>> Carroll was married to Charlie and Harding Carol, for more than 60 years, she passed away in 2014 funeral arrangements for the former governor are pending.

Kentucky's current governor will be sworn in at midnight.

The private ceremony kicks off.

Governor Beshear second inauguration.

Renee Shaw recently sat down with historian Ron Brian.

Us some insight into why this spring in takes place.

So late as well as background on the peculiar part of the oath of office.

The Kentucky governor's still take today.

>> That period of time from the for the official inauguration.

There has to be an executive chief executive.

So therefore, as soon as that clock gets toward you better have somebody in total there to actually take the oaks so that if anything happened, you know that something terrible or something, there would be a continuity, their right hand, but we don't have a transition of office this time, though.

So why is it necessary to the Constitution requires an inaugural out and >> and actual swearing at it.

You have to do that.

And so again, continuity, make sure that the person is they are and sworn in and then the next day they can do the form of thing from the public for the public eye until the public gets.

If they're up and they're watching, they get a lead and intimate view of this that's happening in the Capitol Rotunda this time.

And an event, as it always is.

let's talk about the oath of office.

So you probably haven't memorized.

Haha, I think, yeah, but of course, it says I want to read it all because I don't want to be a spoiler, but there's part of it that says I being a citizen of this state have not fought a duel with deadly weapons within this state nor out of that nor have I sent or accepted a challenge to fight a duel with deadly weapons.

Nor have I acted as second and caring and challenging or aided or assisted any person dust offending.

So help me God.

That's how it ends.

>> Why is that language?

They're trying to do all that you included doing caught?

Yes, sir.

That has been there, of course, since the last Constitution in 1991, for sure.

>> Kentucky INS had a bad habit shooting at each other over politics.

And sometimes it was quite dad like so the dueling thing >> was a real thing and those states and to make sure that no governor or Lieutenant Governor, anything like that would have been caught in such a thing that put that in there to make sure that that wouldn't happen because then you would not have scandal overdue or murder or something like that.

You have to make it above board.

And so I'm a great supporter of that clause.

I there's been moves through the years to get rid of.

You.

Don't think it's antiquated?

Not at all.

I think a team or a valid >> violent past that we had in politics and that was to make sure that something like that could not happen again.

And people were actually shooting each other very quickly over politics.

And I think it's not a memory serves me correct.

>> The last formal due in Kentucky took place about 18, 66.

>> So even they were still afraid, even though nearly 30 years later, I had to KET that in there.

Yes, of course.

Remember the Goble assassinations that so there was violence that I want to talk about.

William William, go both the people.

There are still people in the Commonwealth of Kentucky that site.

You mean the person that was never governor for the person that was sworn in on their knees after his day ahead.

We'll never know the truth of all that we probably will never know who who actually shot him.

But in 1900 in January, 1900 when he was walking to the old Capitol building, which is still serving Capitol building.

Someone shot him from the office of the secretary of State.

>> And up whether he was a day of the right there or not.

We don't.

>> Well, you will see full coverage of tomorrow's inauguration live throughout the day.

Tomorrow.

He'll see the swearing in of Governor Andy Beshear and Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman.

Then 9 year-old parade and the Grand March.

So join us tomorrow for all of that here on KET.

The Republican Party of Kentucky has new leadership over the weekend.

The party picked Robert Benton unity as its new chair succeeding Mack Brown who served 8 years.

And during that time, Republicans won a super majority of members of both the Kentucky, the House and Senate.

There are now more registered Republicans than Democrats in Kentucky.

In a statement, Bennett said there is much more work to be done as a party.

We must continue to unite to rely upon the wisdom of our conservative forefathers and to further tap into the passion of Kentuckians who have already interested to us the responsibility of leadership.

And the new D is an attorney who served in the Kentucky House from 2013 to 2019.

He also served in the administration of Governor Ernie Fletcher.

He's from Lexington.

Well, former member of the Kentucky Statehouse wants his old job back.

Kentucky Nky Lincoln, Turkey Link.

Nky is reporting that see Ed Massey has filed to run in 2024. now Massey was a 2 term incumbent serving in the 66 district in Boone County when he lost in the May 20 and then he lost in the May 2022 primary to a fellow Republican Steve Rawlings Massey is running in the same district and he has an opponent.

But this time it's not Rawlings.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that T J Roberts a conservative with ties to the Liberty Movement has also filed to run.

The incumbent in the District.

Steve Rawlings has filed to run for the state Senate district 11.

That's the scene that will be vacant after Senator John Shekels decides not to run for another term.

Moving now to last weekend's severe weather while northern Tennessee had 6 deaths in the most destruction, Kentucky was hit to any of 2 caused some damage.

And Todd and Logan counties, the Kentucky Mesonet says that tornado touched down as an EF one tornado in Bowling Green winds estimated at 90 miles per hour to the roof off a motel and also caused damage to the roof of a warehouse and also took down electrical poles and a transformer at an ATM T substation leading to power outages.

This all taking place near the anniversary of the deadly tornado outbreak that hit Kentucky in 2 years ago.

>> We're no stranger to December tornado events here in Kentucky.

But that said they are rather The one that occurred in 2021 occurred during a la Nina weather pattern.

This time we have an El Nino weather pattern in place.

But that said it has been unseasonably mild December thus far, which is reminiscent of 2 years ago, which was the warmest December on record for Kentucky.

>> The National Weather Service will wrap up preliminary reports in the next few days.

The Kentucky Mesonet says there's no threat of severe weather in the near future.

They say models indicate are actually going to see mild to warm temperatures as we draw closer to the Christmas holiday.

Yesterday was the two-year anniversary of the deadly tornadoes that hit western Kentucky.

81 people died on Saturday.

Governor Andy Beshear join local leaders to hand over the keys to 10 new homes in Mayfield and Dawson Springs money from the team.

Western Kentucky Tornado Relief fund help pay for the homes more than 21 million dollars will be spent to build or repair 200 homes, 154 home building projects are finished under construction or approved to start construction.

Well, imagine this traveling by train from Louisville to Indianapolis and then on to Chicago.

What could happen?

Metro Louisville and the Kentucky regional Planning and Development Agency just received half a million dollars from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

They will use that money to say the pros and cons of passenger rail service to Louisville from Louisville to Indianapolis, Mayor Craig Greenberg says he heard from many little billions excited about that idea.

The move is also getting praise from state Senator Julie Rocky Adams, the Senate Majority Caucus chair who says railway service could be a vital artery for commerce and travel.

The topic of passenger rail systems also came up during our KET form building up Kentucky during that storm airing tonight here on KET, a panel of policymakers and city and county leaders discussed economic development efforts in the state after the live from was over.

Members of the audience were invited to ask the panelists questions.

One audience member asked if the Amtrak was part of Kentucky's future transportation plans.

Over the last week or so.

Amtrak proposals have been coming out in our area and sadly, Kentucky is not part of it.

And I was wondering if you all thought light rail and or connections to Amtrak were beneficial.

>> For our communities and if so, would you be interested or have you had discussions with our federal delegation to discuss those needs?

I do think that's a You know, when we look at Europe and everybody was looking, says may have passed is.

>> They can transport of light rail and how nice would it be to go from Louisville, Nashville, a matter of just a snap of the fingers.

We will have to work as you make our federal delegates on that have seen if that would even be a conversation of crossing, you know, stateline-it things such as that.

But but I do think in terms of of Amtrak in in ways that week probably need to be having more of those discussions there is that convergence.

It goes back to work force.

You know, I KET thinking about.

>> Access and awareness when we think about all the innovation that Kentucky is experiencing all of the new growth industry and the positions that are going to come available that we don't even understand yet.

We all aspire to things once were aware of them.

So that's step one.

But then you've got to get there.

You've got to have a means to get to where you're going.

So it's imperative, I think as we look at and, you know, maintaining the workforce of people want to decrease their reliance on automobile.

We've got to give them an alternative means of transportation.

>> So Amtrak runs right past my from Cincinnati goes right along the Ohio River in West Virginia have done their job.

We would I would love to do if we were able to go from Cincinnati to or from Covington to Lexington or Lexington Boulevard down to Madison County on.

>> Train just and then points farther west and east.

Think how much more productive your time today.

>> You'll hear more on the economic development plans.

Kentucky cities and counties are working on to strengthen communities during building up Kentucky Akt form.

It airs tonight at 8 Eastern 7 central right here on KET.

The state is warning hunters after a deer's death in Western Kentuckyian a new statue honors a former governor.

All right.

Time to get to explains in tonight's look at headlines around Kentucky.

♪ ♪ >> The Paducah Sun reports Wildlife officials announced last week that a deer in western Kentucky tested positive for a fatal neurological disease.

Making it the first gear to be infected in the state.

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife said the deer had chronic wasting disease.

It was killed by a hunter in Ballard County.

The department is encouraging hunters to get harvest.

A deer tested for CWD through a no cost deer sample collection program.

Deer hunting season continues through January.

15th.

The trade Association for Kentucky's health insurance industry is given a $50,000 Grant to an organization helping to restore homes in eastern Kentucky destroyed by the 2021 2022.

Floods.

The Kentucky Lantern reports that officials with the Saint Vincent mission in Floyd County send the funds from the Kentucky Association of Health will go toward building a warehouse.

An official with the group tells a Kentucky Lantern the extra storage space will allow them to KET more materials at 6.15, more houses every year.

The Richmond Register reports the Madison County Tenants Union has opened the county's first union hall in Berea organizer.

Margaret Sites tells the newspaper Madison County has reached a new record for eviction filings and that the housing situation needs more action and attention.

She said the field office will serve as a hub where the organization can host events conduct its outreach efforts and give neighbors the opportunity to connect and share their experiences with housing around the county.

A statue of Edward Ned Breath that was dedicated last week in Christian County.

The Hopkinsville made its service.

Kentucky's 51st governor.

The Hop town Chronicle reports the late governor's daughter was on hand for the dedication of her father's bronze statue in front of the Christian County Courthouse.

Brett, that son, who is a sculptor, created the life-size statue.

With headlines around Kentucky.

I tell the kids.

♪ >> Some students at the University of Kentucky are learning about the hair healthcare inequalities in the medical field for a fellowship.

The purpose of this fellowship is preparing medical students to care for black patients and underserved population.

We spoke with an official from the College of Medicine and a student undergoing the program to learn more.

>> When other people come in for health care, it could be like the worst and their life for.

It's just a very vulnerable state.

Usually going in to the doctor or any health care provider.

So knowing that you're in a space where that person actually has your best interest in mind is of the utmost importance.

Unfortunately, a lot of people don't feel that it started in recognition of >> the historical and Health inequities and social inequities experience by the black community in the United States and also recognition of our general for this is shortage, but especially the physician before the black population.

It was originated as a way for our department and the cost of medicine to make a small dent on enhancing the education training, a medical student at the University of Kentucky to both understand the, you know, the history and foundation health inequities and really provides training and resources to students too, but undertake projects that are aimed at addressing those health inequities.

Students in the fall should be required to take a course on the of racism and the impact on the health of black Americans.

The follows can be from any no racial or ethnic background.

And I think that's really important because outside of you know, one-on-one mentorship that they receive from and Mabel science, faculty member to undertake the project.

They also go an entire semester course.

As I mentioned on the of some of the and experience and also there's content included on some of solutions to that.

>> One big thing is through programs like defense people are not only what's important about how to advocate people.

And that comes from things like research and just general knowledge.

And it's very important that not just my generation of physicians learns it, but the older generations as It's all important and it can change.

The landscape is where people trust medical providers.

>> The hope is students will be inspired to continue training in that area and be able to increase the number of physicians that, you know, can be trusted by members of the black population.

>> The fellowship last 18 months and it's for second-year medical students.

♪ ♪ >> Do you find joy in decking the halls?

We recently spoke with the clinical psychologist who says >> there is a reason why holiday decorating makes our spirits bright.

>> I think for people that get so still meant enjoy from decorating.

Great.

It's in line with your values to to kind of lean into the holidays.

And so I think positive traditions.

Can be really beneficial to folks, right?

So it doesn't necessarily have to be Christmas decorating but I think for some people they really value condition and family and celebrating things to the to the Lake greatest except pass possible.

And if back to you.

Then we know that kind of living in accordance with your values that's associated with positive.

Well, being with greater life satisfaction, a more positive emotions.

Now, one thing I think 2 important to mention, though, is that what people value differs for how people express theirs or cultural or religious or holiday traditions defers to.

So if you're not a person that and that gets a lot of joy from decorating for the holidays, maybe your cookie Baker or maybe you're like I'm going to be one of my girlfriends and that's what we That's right.

There's no there's no right way to celebrate the holidays.

But if you are the type of person that gets a lot of joy from decorating 100% to that, sometimes we go a little too far in the opposite direction where it has to be perfect to have to be exactly the way that we did last year.

And so my advice to people that might sort of me not waiting is think about late.

What is the piece that it's my with my values for doing this or what is the piece that actually brings me, joy.

It's probably not the perfection of it.

If you're not the type of person and it's just not that meaningful to you to have decorations.

Surely there are other things in your life that that bring joy that you could kind of put this mindful say, bring attention on 2.

♪ >> The birth of the first lady and the final fight for the greatest are coming against has that and more in this look at this week in Kentucky history.

♪ >> Mary Todd Future wife of Abraham Lincoln was born December 13 to 18, 18 in Lexington.

She married Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, in 18.

42.

Happy birthday to Isaac Shelby.

Kentucky's first governor was born December.

11th 17, 15 in the Maryland colony.

He served as Kentucky's first governor from 17 92 until 17 96.

And he served as Kentucky's 5th governor from 18, 12 to 18, 16.

>> While commanding troops during the war of 18, 12, he died in 18.

26.

Speaking of Governors, William J Fields became governor on December.

11th 1923.

Now he's honest bill from Olive Hill, increase the gas tax to pay for his highway program.

He's also known as the governor who kept dairy cows on the governor's mansion long.

Colonel Harland Sanders, the man synonymous with world famous Kentucky Fried Chicken night December 16th 1980.

Although the team has already played games there.

Lexington's Rupp Arena was officially dedicated as the University of Kentucky's home court on December.

11th 1976, Kentucky, Kansas, 90 to 63.

Louisville native Muhammad Ali fought his last night on December.

11th 1981 loss to Trevor Burbank and 10 rounds in the Bahamas.

Ali spinal record as a boxer was 56 wins 6 losses.

And that's a look back at this week in Kentucky history.

I'm told he gives.

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