We're going to treat adults like adults and let them decide what to do with their money.

The date is set.

Kentuckians can place their first bet on a sporting event in September.

This officer put himself between evil and the public and unfortunately has paid a pretty high price for doing that.

How the community is showing support for a police officer shot and injured in the line of duty.

This is the first medicine ever that actually changes the disease in the brain.

Meet some of the Kentuckians on the cutting edge of memory care.

Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KET Endowment for Kentucky Productions, the Leonard Press, Endowment for Public Affairs and the KET Millennium Fund.

Good evening and welcome to Kentucky Edition for this Monday, July the 10th.

I'm Renee Shaw.

Good to be back with you and thank you for winding down your Monday with us.

The date is set for when Kentuckians can place bets on sports.

The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission will allow sports bets and less than two months.

Our Kacey Barker Bell was at the meeting that set the rules for the new gaming option.

Just a few moments ago, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission approved emergency administrative regulations that are required to open sports wagering in Kentucky.

That means Kentuckians will be able to place bets on sporting events in less than 60 days.

It's the biggest expansion of gambling since a lottery in Kentucky.

That's a big deal.

Adam Kane sponsored sports gambling legislation when he was a member of the General Assembly.

He says concerns about the product will win once people are able to place bets.

Took longer than it should have.

But we got it done.

It means less government and more money for the taxpayers.

And, you know, we're going to treat adults like adults and let them decide what to do with their money.

In a meeting today at Red Mile Racetrack, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission approved and Governor Andy Beshear signed regulations that will govern the new industry.

It will allow betting at retail locations to start on September seven.

Online bets will open three weeks later.

Governor Andy Beshear applauded the bipartisan effort to get the bill across the finish line.

Bringing sports wagering to Kentucky means more money to support our pensions for hard, hardworking law enforcement, our educators, every state, city and county employee.

I want to see any freed up dollars going to support public education, economic development, disaster recovery and other necessary projects.

Projects like providing clean drinking water to our families, building safer roads and supporting high speed Internet.

Annual revenue for the Commonwealth from sports betting is expected to be about $23 million.

The governor says he expects that number to grow over time.

And the sponsor of the legislation to legalize sports betting says the timing for the first bets are well placed.

You know, I just I think the time was right.

Every state around us, with the exception of Missouri, had already passed sports wagering at this point.

And so we were not a holdout any longer.

And if we held out any longer, we were going to be the island.

We made Missouri the island, frankly, by doing this this year.

It's a big day because we're going to be able to meet the first part of the NFL season and really the start of the wager, the sports wagering here.

It will also allow sports fans across the state to wager on their favorite local teams.

On September seven, the first day of betting.

Louisville will play Murray State University, and on September nine, the University of Kentucky will play Eastern Kentucky.

For Kentucky Edition.

I'm K.C.

Parker, Belle.

Thank you, Casey.

Kentucky is the 37th state to legalize sports betting.

In other news, it turns out attorney general and Republican candidate for governor Daniel Cameron will not attend Freedom Fest in September as he planned.

The rally in northern Kentucky is hosted by former attorney Eric Daters, who ran for governor in the Republican primary in May on successfully.

Last week we told you about Republican Congressman Thomas Massie saying it would be a mistake for Cameron to attend the rally.

His criticism continued in light of videos on social media showing daters using racist and homophobic language.

According to Austin Horne, a politics reporter at the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Cameron's campaign now says he will be campaigning in another region of the state on the day of the rally, where the Louisville and ACP is calling on Mayor Craig Greenburg to be more transparent and the search for the city's new police chief.

The mayor's office announced it will not release the names of the finalists for the position.

An advisory panel made up of community and state leaders is interviewing the candidates.

The ACP released a statement over the weekend and reads in part, quote, The ACP is calling on Greenburg to immediately reverse his decision to keep secret the identities of the police chief finalists.

The ACP says he should also conduct public meetings to allow citizens to meet and ask questions of the finalists.

The organization goes on to say that it urges the mayor to follow the lead of other communities that have been far more transparent and progressive in dealing with the public than he and his predecessors have been.

The Louisville community deserves better.

End quote.

A federal appeals court has temporarily reversed a lower court's ruling prohibiting Tennessee from an acting a ban on gender affirming care for transgender youth.

Saturday's ruling from the sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals allows Tennessee to enforce the ban while the case proceeds through the courts.

The Sixth Circuit also covers Kentucky, where a similar appeal over part of a bill passed by Kentucky lawmakers.

Senate Bill 150 is playing out over the weekend.

Republican state Senator Max Wise, sponsor of Senate Bill 150, said, quote, I am pleased with this morning's victory in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which I trust through the motion filed by Attorney General Daniel Cameron.

Will soon lift the stay on S.B.

150, end quote.

A Kentucky lawmaker is speaking out about reports that children in state custody are sleeping in state office buildings.

According to The Courier Journal newspaper of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services is housing Unplaced children and the buildings overnight, sometimes for weeks at a time.

In a statement released this weekend, Republican State Senator Julie Rocky Adams of Louisville said she wrote a letter to the cabinet in April expressing her concern about the practice and asked to see their plan to address it.

She said she received a response two months later.

Senator Rocky Adams says, quote, While I understand and appreciate the complexity and difficulty these situations can be within the child welfare system, I cannot understand why finding a solution to placing vulnerable children with families and licensed providers in Kentucky is not a top priority for the administration, end quote.

She goes on to say, Our abused, neglected and dependent children deserve the very best from our state, and I hope the administration will prioritize this issue and work with urgency to correct these wrongs, unquote.

It was a groundbreaking today for a new law enforcement training facility in Richmond.

The facility is named in honor of Jodi Cash, a Calloway County sheriff's deputy who died in the line of duty in 2022.

His family was there for this morning's groundbreaking.

The Jodi Cash multipurpose training facility will be almost 43,000 square feet, with a 30 lane firing range.

It'll support training for all Kentucky's law enforcement agencies except the KSP and the Bowling Green, Lexington and Louisville Metro Police Departments.

They all have their own training academies.

Construction on the new facility is expected to be completed in 2025.

The Bowling Green community is rallying around the police officer who was critically injured.

And the line of duty Officer Matt Davis was shot multiple times while responding to a call on Thursday.

He remains hospitalized in a trauma center.

Some businesses have put up signs of encouragement and support for Officer Davis and the BG.

PD.

There are blue bows at City Hall and the Warren County Regional Jail.

The local Fraternal Order of Police chapter has created a Go Fund Me page that has raised $44,000.

Matt Davis is what we call a good unit.

He's a good officer.

He knows how to deal with people.

He knows.

He's a hard charger.

When you have an issue that needs to be taken care of, match the guy you reach out to and say, Hey, I need this fixed.

And he's going to go take care of the problem.

It doesn't surprise me a bit that he put himself into harm's way during this situation.

There was a lot of civilians around during this call and he didn't hesitate to get involved.

It's really good to see the community support that we've gotten.

They see the signs.

Officers really appreciate it.

Just a simple I appreciate you goes a long way to hear that because the officers have a lot of days where they don't hear that and they just hear people yell and complain at them.

So it's just the little things like saying, we appreciate you.

Thank you.

The community support.

All the money that they've given so far has been overwhelming.

A community fund raiser is planned in Bowling Green for Thursday.

Chat GPT, a program that uses artificial intelligence to create humanlike language.

It's been grabbing headlines for a while now, but artificial intelligence or A.I.

for short has been around for many years.

Jason Thacker wrote a book about A.I.

and he teaches philosophy and ethics at Boyce College in Louisville, and an interview with me earlier today.

I asked him why there is so much concern about A.I.

now.

I think a lot of it comes down to the especially with generative A.I., we're having this fundamental question of what does it mean to be human?

Kind of get thrust into the center of the conversation, because we've long assumed of what it meant to be human was based on the things we do in terms of creativity or writing or thinking and processing.

And now we're starting to see these these generative A.I.

systems be able to create things to make things, to write, text, to make video, audio, all sorts of different things.

And I think that's fundamentally challenging a lot of the assumptions of what it what we thought it meant to be human.

But when we step back and realize that these tools, they're not neutral, they have deep, they have values, they have designs, they have purposes.

So when we start to think about how technology is forming and shaping us, I think A.I.

presents an opportunity for us to really step in, to examine the nature of technology.

What is it?

How is it forming and shaping us as people?

And then what do we do about it?

We hope you'll join us for a full discussion one hour about artificial intelligence and how it could affect the future.

On Kentucky tonight.

That's tonight at eight Eastern, seven Central right here on KCET.

It's been approved for market in the U.S.. Last week, the Federal Drug Administration approved Larkana map sold as Lacombe clinical trials for the breakthrough intravenous drug are already happening in the bluegrass.

In today's health news, hear from some of those involved because it is the first medicine ever that actually changes the disease in the brain, removes a component of the disease, and can extend quality of life for patients who are developing and and who are in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.

Jim had a little bit of memory issues, and I can pleasantly say that it is not progressed very much.

He still has some reminders that we need to do about where we're going and what's happening and so on.

But he's doing really well and I can see that, you know, this medication, from what I had understood about Alzheimer's, seems to be holding him pretty steady in Alzheimer's disease.

The process begins with a buildup of amyloid that forms plaques in the brain.

What can of MAB is an antibody that directly binds to and allows the brain to remove the amyloid that's building up in a patient with Alzheimer's to the point where it becomes completely undetectable by about 12 to 18 months.

And so the thought process has been, if we can get rid of that amyloid, then we should be able to slow or stop Alzheimer's disease.

So we've really been trying to balance, you know, how effective we are at removing amyloid with the safety of the medicine.

And so that balance really was achieved here.

And the the validation of that is this eventual FDA approval.

That's that's what all of this is about, you know, trying to help with our quality of life and just the basics.

The goal of the medicine is to keep people doing well, like Dr. Jackson.

Three years later, he's doing pretty darn good.

We would typically not have expected that for the normal course of disease in a patient.

Being a physician myself.

Down through the years, I've come to realize that, you know, that's the important thing.

Improving life for everyone.

And this happens to be one of the ways that has ended up affecting me.

So, yeah, significant.

Significant indeed.

Dr. Gikas said.

Larkana Mab has been approved for people with early to moderate stages of Alzheimer's disease.

With summer in full swing, many families will find themselves spending the day at a nearby pool, but having access to a local pool has not always been a reality for all Americans.

In the early 1900s, public pools were segregated in the US.

By the late 1900s, significantly fewer public school or public pools, rather, were being built in black neighborhoods than in white neighborhoods.

The effect of those policies still linger today.

Black and brown children are less likely than white children to know how to swim, and there are twice as likely to drown.

The YMCA of Greater Louisville has set out to change that.

The research and the data is very clear.

Learning to swim saves lives and people of color for generations have been under engaged in swimming lessons, learning to swim and just feeling comfortable around the water and having access to places to go swimming.

The principles of health health equity tell us that the choices people make are the choices people have, and we know that everyone does not experience the same access to healthy choices, one of which is crude swimming.

And so reducing barriers and increasing access and loving and serving one another are the things that I perceive need to be brought together so that so that the children have the access to healthy choices of all kinds, including swimming.

A number of years ago, we started what's called safe ground water, which is a swim instructional program.

It doesn't necessarily teach.

Every stroke is focused exclusively on safety.

During the summer, we've had about 1000 children a summer in that using groups, groups and other community groups that that we've engaged to our maximum capacity.

We've had a number of of learn to swim programs over the past year and during the summertime they're targeted toward lower income and communities of color.

And that's just a start.

I appreciate the safety aspects.

I appreciate the skill development aspects, appreciate the health aspects.

The swimming is swimming is a lifetime sport.

People can participate in that for a lifetime.

But what I love about it, particularly with children, is the confidence that comes with learning to swim that carries over into academic achievement, good health habits, and most of all, confidence.

And I've seen the sparkle in their eyes when you go in to say who can buy bubbles in the water?

And, you know, they come in shaking their head, No, no, I can't do that.

I can't do that.

And one day they come in and say, yes, I can do that.

And it is a beautiful, beautiful and very tangible thing to see.

And that's why I'm so such an advocate.

The fact that every child should learn to swim, making a splash for sure.

For more information about YMCA of Greater Louisville safety around water courses, check out their website.

Kentucky is known for many things horses, bourbon, basketball, just to name a few.

Greater Louisville AG wants to put biotechnology on that list.

Our Christy Dutton finds out why biotechnology is the combination of biology and engineering, and that combination has been used to advance many different fields from medicine to agriculture.

Joining us now is Logan Gaddy, the director of Greater Louisville Inc's Health Enterprises Network.

Logan, why does Kentucky want to get into the biotech industry?

So just to add a little bit of context, back in 2019, Jill, I worked with a national consulting firm called Techonomy, and they had identified biotech as an area of real growth potential in our region.

And there's a lot of different reasons for that.

We have great universities to our one research institutions, the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky.

We also have world class logistics, obviously with the UPS World Port being located in Louisville, you know, kind of minimizing that cold chain as it relates to health care is always a great value add for our region and a true global competitive advantage.

So essentially what we wanted to do was to bring the message of Kentucky to the bio conference in Boston a couple of weeks ago.

I think we did an excellent job in terms of telling the story of Kentucky because it is truly one of the great one of the best kept secrets in the region, according to a lot of the people that we talked to.

Yes.

And this conference was the largest gathering for biotechnology minds in the world, right?

It was.

So how did you market Kentucky?

What was your all's marketing slogan?

So it was called Trifecta Kentucky.

It was playing on obviously, the horse racing background that we have.

We were just saying always bet on the bluegrass because again, we are one of the best kept secrets, but we don't want to be a secret anymore because there are all these great assets that we have to offer the region and the world and people just don't know about what's happening.

So that was our main goal to get in front of these 17,000 medical professionals and really create a new branding idea that would really stick in their minds so that when we go back in 2024 to San Diego bio conference, we can continue to build on those connections and really drive economic development in this sector.

Okay.

So Kentucky as a state, what do we need to do?

How do we get there?

What what needs to be done to make our state come to mind when biotech companies are looking for places to go?

Yeah.

So the trifecta that we highlighted was obviously our strengths in life sciences, logistics and lifestyle.

But one of the things that we really heard from a lot of different folks was are there enough workers to really support this in the region?

And that's something that we really need to work on a whole lot because there are regions outside of perhaps the coasts that are doing it perhaps a little bit better than us, so we could look to them to potentially emulate some of their strategies.

We need to work with our educators at all levels to make sure that we are upskilling a workforce that is able to hold these jobs for a long term, you know, long term job prospects and and really create the benefits that we want to see in the region.

Okay.

Thank you.

Logan Goudy from Greater Louisville, thank you so much for being with us.

Thank you.

Back to you.

Thank you, Christy.

According to biotech, dawg, there are more than 8500 biotech employers in the U.S. 45 of those are in Kentucky.

Our Toby Gibbs has some famous Kentucky names and a popular Kentucky soft drink.

And tonight's look at this week in Kentucky history.

Kentucky born first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, a native of Lexington, died in Springfield, Illinois, on July 16th, 1882.

He was governor of Kentucky in the 1930s and again in the 1950s.

In addition to being a United States senator and the Major League Baseball commissioner, when Jackie Robinson integrated baseball, Albert Benjamin Happy Chandler was born July 14th, 1898.

Happy birthday to a late J.L.

Wayne.

Scott first made the popular Winchester Bass, ginger and Citrus soft drink on July 13th, 1926, Wayne Scott held a name the product contest to come up with a name, and someone suggested a late one, suggesting that drink was the latest thing.

Ale eight one is a pun based on that phrase.

Do you know Kentucky's official fruit?

It's the BlackBerry and the official designation came on July 13th, 24.

The British band The WHO played Rap Arena in Lexington on July 11th, 1980, more than 21,000 people attended and tickets cost between eight and $12.

And that's what happened this week in Kentucky history.

I'm Toby Gibbs.

Thank you.

Toby Gibbs.

When you think of Kentucky music, country artists like Loretta Lynn, Chris Stapleton or even Tyler Childers might come to mind.

But what about genres like pop and rock and roll?

The Kentucky Music Hall of Fame offers a close look at the complete musical history of the Commonwealth.

We can remember the songs that either someone that we love, that they love that song, The Happy Times.

But then we also remember the songs of Sorrow.

There's always some songs that hit you in the heart.

Kentucky music does that.

In Kentucky, music is special because of the rich heritage that it has coming out of the Appalachian Mountains.

We're right at the foothills of that.

And so, so much old time and bluegrass music came out of that region and developed later in the country.

Music and and some influences and rock and roll as well.

Here at the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame, you'll find Kentucky's complete timeline of musical history.

And so we we honor anybody from Loretta Lynn.

So the Backstreet Boys, two of them were from Kentucky.

And so we have a very rich musical heritage in this state.

We pay honor to just about everybody that has made an impact on the musical industry.

Museum is a lot larger than it looks from the outside pulling in to the parking lot where we are just shy of 20,000 square feet.

And currently we probably have near 100 exhibits.

Now, some of those are larger than others, and we have a little bit over 60 inductees.

Of course, we rotate the inductees display cases.

We don't have them all out at the same time.

I think the Kentucky music Hall of Fame Museum is probably one of Kentucky's best assets.

It puts our music on display.

One of the cool things is that you can see the artifacts of Jerry Chestnut, who wrote songs for Elvis, songs for George Jones.

Then you turn around and you see more Italians Dress or The Judds.

But then you turn around and see exhibits of boots.

Randolph You're not going to get that anywhere else.

And so you get to learn a little bit about the history and the Hall of Fame.

It's and I love the fact that it's interactive.

And so it's both for young and old.

There's people that come see and they want to see one particular artist, but maybe they'll learn about somebody else or even like the Kentucky Headhunters, for example, you'd see their instruments on display as well.

So it's I love how the history comes alive.

We have such a rich musical heritage here that a lot of people don't realize.

But it's so interesting to see people learning about that and they really love it.

That's the unique thing about Kentucky music.

It's not just one style weebly and then multiple styles.

We love music.

We were born and raised here.

But music moves from a reflection of your life to certainly a place worth visiting.

Well, we hope you'll join us again tomorrow night at 630 Eastern, 530 Central for Kentucky Edition, where we inform, Connect and Inspire with great stories like you just saw.

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And we talk about artificial intelligence.

Hope to see you then.

Until then, take good care.