♪ >> This seems pretty fundamental pretty basic.

But if you don't have poll workers, you can apples.

>> Finding the volunteers that will help America vote in November.

We're facing some of the highest level of behavior health needs that we have ever seen in our state.

A new emergency room for mental health.

It's a fun and >> when you get noise, I don't want that and played in 30 years the >> and meet a self-taught repairman who gives new life to old radios.

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

♪ ♪ Good evening and welcome to Kentucky edition on this last day of July.

It's Wednesday, July 31st.

>> I'm Renee Shaw.

We appreciate you winding down your Wednesday with us.

The Legislative Research Commission is investigating State Representative Daniel Grossberg of Louisville, a Democrat for what the Lexington Herald-Leader calls, quote, inappropriate interactions with women unquote.

The newspaper reports the investigation involves specific actions, questionable behavior and text messages.

The Herald leader says in the tax grossberg comments on women's parents.

In a statement, Grossberg says he never crossed the line in his professional communications and that private tax, he says on a personal cell phone are not work related.

Democrats have suspended Grossberg from the Democratic Caucus.

Grossberg is up for reelection in November, but he is on opposed.

Millions of Americans will head to the polls to vote in November.

The U.S. election Assistance Commission wants to make sure they'll be enough poll workers to take those ballots tomorrow.

It will host national poll worker recruitment day.

It's an effort to support election officials and encourage people to participate in the Democratic process.

>> National poll worker recruitment started in 2020.

You know, we were in we were in the pandemic and there was an election year.

And you know, a lot of our veteran poll workers, a lot of our seniors who are traditionally poll workers were not we're not able to to come out or not able to come out and feel Doing serving as a poll worker.

And so we KET that we needed more folks to step up.

We saw a lot of new people sign up, which was awesome.

And as we talked to election officials, you know, they really appreciated that support.

Poor That's recruiting poll workers is always a challenge.

And so what we heard from them was, hey, you know, if you could do that again, we'd appreciate it.

And we've kept this up as as sort of a civic holiday is a day of action to lift up the fact that people can serve as a poll worker.

This seems the seems pretty fundamental pretty basic.

But if you don't have poll workers, you polls.

And so, you know, again, I think that for a number of people, they don't realize or didn't know whether this was a way that they can serve in their community or that our elections are run by your friends and your neighbors all across the country.

And so for the November election, we anticipate they'll be almost a million Americans who serve as poll workers in their own communities to help run the election in, you know, in their neighborhood polling places.

I think that.

At a time when we see a lot of polarization.

You know, I think there's a lot of people that that have concerns about how they can be involved or if they want to be because they don't like sort of the politics of all of that and into me, pull working is really a great way to put that aside and just say, I'm going to make sure that that my neighbors have a great experience voting and I can do that.

I can do that little thing I can.

I can play my part to make the election my community run.

Well, and that's a great way to give back to your community and a great way to serve our democracy.

>> For more information on becoming a precinct election officer in Kentucky go to elect DOT K Y dot Gov.

Kentucky's distillers are lobbying state lawmakers to open up the market for premade cocktails.

It was a play they made before a legislative panel in Frankfort today.

Our June Leffler has more in tonight's Legislative update.

>> Kentucky's alcohol producers want to get more of their products in more stores that includes ready to drink or rtd products.

Think of a cocktail in a can.

You know, the candle fashion.

>> And in a in things like a jack and coke and things like that are are very popular and stuff that our members want to produce and and believe that they ought to be a there ought to be parity so they can be sold alongside the same level of alcohol by volume as based rtd is.

>> Grocery stores and gas stations can sell beer.

The not spirit based drinks, even though the alcohol content may be the same.

A retail lobbyists as stores want to sell these mixed drinks and wine.

>> Who is excluded exclusively here?

That's your grocery in your convenience stores.

Grocery and convenience stores have been able to sell unlimited ABV of malt since prohibition.

Lawmakers could change those rules.

>> You know, any any time we get in the middle of these things.

If there's there are definitive winners and losers.

>> Mom and pop liquor stores that sell every kind of alcohol don't want to change.

We'll get into Kentucky's retail package system it works.

What we've been it may be different.

But it's working in.

We're meeting consumer demand regulating alcohol impacts.

How much money, all sorts of businesses and state government bring in.

>> Aside from the numbers, lawmakers are asking themselves what makes common sense and what's right for the consumer.

>> To say that somehow it's OK to have it in.

Pharmacies.

We get messy but not okay to have a way where you buy.

Eggs and milk and bring.

It just never made a lot of sense to me.

So you know, I'm all in favor of eliminating that delineation.

>> In cities and everything I don't buy appeared to have to climb through tunnels or ladders lot like its Donkey Kong to get it to get into a store's or some sort of is there some sort of difficulty?

We're where we need to address this ability to access the front door of a liquor store.

>> And outgoing state senator questions of his colleagues will take up this issue in the next session.

>> You know, of 36 or so not coming back here in January.

One of them is another alcohol fight.

pardon the pun.

But that's what's brewing.

I'm not going to be here probably in some place.

A lot warmer that will be here in January.

But I just want to warn you that I'm not sure this committee or this General Assembly is ready for another big alcohol fight.

>> Last session, the General Assembly outlawed stores and individuals from buying and reselling some of the states rarest bourbons for Kentucky edition of John Leffler.

>> Thank you.

June.

The Kentucky Distillers Association spent more than $43,000 lobbying in the last legislative session.

The Kentucky Retail Federation, which represents grocers gas stations and other businesses spent $64,000.

That's according to reporting from the Lexington Herald-Leader.

On Monday, President Joe Biden propose 3 major reforms to the U.S. Supreme Court.

He called for a constitutional amendment to reverse the court's recent ruling that presidents are immune from prosecution for official acts.

He asked them he asked for term limits of 18 years for Supreme Court justices.

Right now they serve limitless terms and don't leave until they retire or die.

And he called for stronger ethics rules for justices after criticism of Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas for accepting trips and gifts.

U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says Democrats are just unhappy with court decisions that haven't gone their way.

>> Radical liberals, cold record book.

The influential members of this body, including the senior senator from road on threatened on the sleeve that, quote.

>> before the public demand it restructured the love wages they were for or against the justices illegally.

They're going to their neighborhoods with trying to harm their spouses, and even Spano work on some flags that fly in their yard.

>> McConnell says according to polling, the court is the most respected branch of government.

Look for flags at state buildings at half-staff tomorrow and honor of the Department of Corrections officer who died last week.

The state says Officer Hunter Miller of Danville died during training at the North Point Training center.

Miller was just 24 years old.

The governor urges everyone to lower their flags from sunup to sundown tomorrow.

♪ ♪ Time now to break down some interesting political developments in the last few days.

And this midweek with our good friend Ryland Barton, who is a senior editor with in PR states team.

Good to see your island.

>> Good to see today.

>> So lets with the news concerning a first term Louisville Democrat Daniel Grossberg, who we reported about this story a little earlier in our newscast this evening, who was looking at some claims against of sexual misconduct, a possible investigation by the Legislative Research Commission.

The Ethics Commission and a suspension from the House Democratic Caucus break this all down for us.

>> Yeah, this story comes from your leader, Alex Acquisto there reported the site yesterday.

But there are 4 different sources that have said that there's this investigation going on or one source that confirms there's an investigation going on that the Webb City Research Commission is looking into these allegations.

>> and 3 other people who share their alleging that represent a growth spurt had.

>> The Cajuns believes looks like an text messaging with the staffer said tax.

These tax have been reviewed by the These sources described the his conduct is weird and happened late at night.

Grossberg has denied any wrongdoing.

But this is because the allegations of this is something that's triggering investigations by not only by the lrc, but now the Democratic caucus in the House has one temporarily suspended Grossberg from the caucus but as ICE, the Legislative Ethics Commission to look into this and then really Democrats right now are kind of taking a little bit of a wait and see approach to to see where these investigations land at this point of Grace Berg, as you said, is the first term Democrat, the one in 2002 defeated long-term longtime representative Tom Burch, the primary election and he's a very vocal member of the of the Democratic Caucus.

Also this reporting of at their leader reported that a growth spurt had been briefly suspended from caucus meetings earlier this year.

It was unclear what that was about.

And there's a couple different renditions of what exactly happened there in one represented.

Pamela Stephenson said that in this concerned a possible will there be any inappropriate car purchase, possibly of.

Obviously it seems like this was ultimately turning to be fine because he was allowed to back into the But he had said the day was actually about a in pushing for the legislature to adopt a condemning Hamas in and the attacks on Israel last October, 7th, another representative has U.S. disputed is claiming that.

So there's a lot of back and forth on that part as well.

yeah, of still trying to figure out exactly what happened here and where what happens next with these allegations.

>> A developing story indeed.

And we'll KET our eyes on Next topic, Andy Beshear.

But it's not the veepstakes that we're going to talk about, although that might be a postscript to what we mentioned.

has blasted his predecessor, former Republican Matt Bevin for using state aircraft for campaigning and fundraising purposes bought it has been discovered Andy Beshear himself has been accused of that same thing that he had blasted his predecessor of doing sort this out for us.

>> Yeah, this is a this is a big hit during any this year's 2019 campaign against Mitt Bevin.

He really railed against Biden for his usage of the of state aircraft or a campaign purposes or flying in the state plane and then going to a nearby fundraising event, even even if the plane the travel was then reimbursed But it was a it was a political moment and a lot of traction that really I think it really put that on its heels led to all sorts of calls for review of how the state brain tissues and and through the reporting of Joe Song, Good Kentucky Public Radio.

He determined that actually on this year's been using state aircraft for very similar purposes of you buy into place for official business.

But then there happens to be some a private or campaign business that is nearby us a fundraising event and he did the math determine how much money Matt Bevin race back in 2018 through this method.

And how is it that she raised?

And it's almost exactly the that it was about a 1915,000 and this year's about 898,000.

So, you know, this is it's just a it's this is a Champaign.

This was a campaign promise of this year's that he wouldn't do this.

It's something that he's not all 3 with.

he's responded saying that, you know, everything's been above board and you know, big document and record and paid for all this properly.

>> Yeah.

And so let's just real quickly talk about Andy Beshear.

Still the prognostications continue.

And we understand that the Vice President Kamala Harris go to make an announcement little sooner.

Then she said could come next Tuesday.

What do you make of that?

>> Yeah, there's a little bit of a smaller field right So North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper himself dropped out of the veepstakes, but and this year, so kind of the top of the list right now, along with the Pennsylvania Roy Shapiro, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly.

>> the Harris campaign has said that they will be.

>> Have a holding campaign events starting next Tuesday with that vice presidential candidate that nominee who will would become later the official nominee at the Democratic Convention So we should have some announcement before Tuesday.

And that's going to be where I would think I've got to be Philadelphia.

Yeah.

There's some wondering whether or not no means that that event is coming out ceremony for for Josh Shapiro.

You know, see nowhere else.

Where else Harris have an event like besides some sort of a swing state and actually strike the voters could be all kinds of political calculus behind that that moves OK, real quickly, 30 seconds.

>> We heard from some county officials earlier this week in Frankfort on a legislative hearing.

Once again, a common refrain is we need more money because of overcrowding and in creased expensive to operate jails.

This is not a new refrain from them.

We've heard this before for years.

>> It's not.

And this is something you know, years ago, a lot there's a lot of bipartisan support in trying to reform Kentucky's criminal justice system to try and decrease the amount of people their house in county jails, about the 40 people who are in state custody are actually housten jails.

And so jails are responsible for that.

Such deals are asking for the state to chip in more money to help pay for that.

But also it's important.

Remember, the state keeps on adding new crime to the dancing vines.

We saw this during this legislative session which leads to more people spending more time in jail, really exacerbating situation more.

>> Ryland Barton is always it's good to talk to you and thank you for your perspective.

Appreciate it.

♪ >> UK >> healthcare is launching a brand-new emergency room for those experiencing mental illness and behavioral health problems.

It opened yesterday on the eastern State hospital campus.

And it's the first of its kind in Kentucky.

We take a closer look.

And today's medical news.

>> At the opening of UK healthcare impact the murder.

The psychiatric unit.

Marks a new chapter in our approach to behavioral health for nearly 3 years are triad has been apprentices of this month and we worked with our national expert Doctor Scott seller and his team to adapt this.

But we didn't know at the time was how truly critical this service would be.

As we're facing some of the highest level of behavioral health need that we have ever seen in our state.

>> This is an essential part of our vision as a state.

These 3 concepts, someone to talk to someone to respond in a safe place for help.

This is those 3 concepts in body.

It is model for Fayette County.

It is a model for our region and it is a model.

>> For our state as a whole this safe place for help.

>> One of the biggest differences the impact center in an emergency room is that I'm going to be greeted immediately by psychiatric experts.

We a position here called the peer support specialist, which is a very important role that we have that most emergency rooms don't have.

And if someone that's had lived, experience lived, with substance use disorders or a chronic mental illness who has gone through specific training to understand how to connect with people as they come into the setting.

And that part really moves mountains that that can really, really the perspective.

The person coming in health care and behavioral health.

I think we've all >> would agree today is one of the leading illnesses across America and here in Kentucky.

And for this to be the first in path for the type of service for behavioral health and mental illness for individuals that are suffering from whatever the condition may be to be able to come here.

And to be able to stay.

For a 24 hour period.

Possibly.

And then if the condition doesn't improve, be able to be admitted.

On to the hospital or to some other kind of treatment to help that individual is really making a tremendous step.

>> They're only 30 impact.

The units in the U.S. UK hopes to open a pediatric version in the future.

Kentucky students return to class in the next couple of Some already have now a pediatrician at Norton Children's Hospital is encouraging parents to map out a sleep schedule for their children to make sure they're well rested and ready for school each and every day.

>> Well, it's important that they get enough sleep.

And the earlier and they're going to bed, they can get in time to get to school and not the rest.

You can't expect them to all of a sudden go to bed at 9 o'clock at they've been going to bed at 03:00AM.

it it's best to sort of move incrementally about 15 to 30 minutes.

A time for a few days and then set that earlier and earlier to they get to their recommended bed time.

Well, for the little ones preschool, kindergarten, they need about 10 to 13 hours a day and that includes a nap time for the school age kids between 6 and 12, a 9 to 12 hours a night and then for the teenagers between 8 to 10 hours a night when we know that as a culture, we use too much screen time and the blue lights from the can decrease a melatonin which affects sleep and it affects our circadian rhythm, which is our sleep-wake cycle.

So it's best to put those technology down.

Put the game down the screen of the iPad and the phone about one to 2 hours before bedtime so that our brain can be rested and ready for sleep when they're well rested, their cranky, they're tired, unable to focus.

They're not paying attention.

They may be a little bit disruptive.

And so it's hard to get them to learn as they should and followed directions that kids are able to go to that.

I'm at a good time and they can get that rested.

Their not rest on.

They have time to eat breakfast, which is and they're not feeling anxious when they arrive at school.

So it's good to get that backpack ready the night before.

Get the clothes picked get their lunch packed and so that they do have some time to.

To get themselves ready for the school day.

>> All good advice.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Children and teens who do not get enough sleep are at higher risk for obesity, diabetes injury and mental health issues.

♪ >> What started out as a hobby has since become a great connection to the past.

>> Ric Howard began with a barn full of old radios and no expertise or idea what to do with them.

But now he has grown not only in to a collector bought a radio repairman and historian.

We go back in time literally with an encore Arts and Culture segment presented last July that we call tapestry.

♪ >> People that come in.

A lot of people just come in the fighting this to make next or what it is.

>> Overnight, our colleague, I can't believe this is like a museum and there.

And so you know what?

The people have been really reset.

The way I got started was a retired from the fire department and the Richmond and out.

So I well, I had something to do so started collecting intakes and that sort of thing.

This fella called me one day and I have about radios up in a bar and one of the unrest and buy them.

So how do you really know anything about radios?

It's been about 10 years ago.

I called a friend of mine and he said, yeah, that's a really good deal.

So I went to pick up these radios and brought him back.

You know, what am I going to just clean them up and kind of is this around?

So I pulled one out of the pack in look pretty good.

master him to get a pardon.

And they got on YouTube and the Earth found that radio was repaired.

And so I got it repaired were actually get it.

So after that, I was hooked there for a year to about anything.

You have a cold on okay.

This is a.

>> A 1939 Zena and it's a world's fair.

They made this specifically for the world's fair, not to 39.

And that's one of my right.

Yes, I'm not going to sail.

>> The more I got into the the the radio, how the radio actually works, they get to electromagnetic waves out of the air.

For your insight on and go through the radio and comes out.

A speaker's really interesting to me so that the more I learn the more I got no, but more interested still, not a very I'm not an expert, but it stretches lot of people know more about how to repair radios.

but it's a finance.

When you get noise, I don't want that.

And played in 30 years has been a.

♪ What one of the main reasons I really like their radios is the history that's been through the radios, all the presidential speeches, a sports and and it, you know, just all the history that's then through the rails because that was the only form of news.

Besides it is paver.

I wish I had kept a journal.

List of everybody that's been to hear the different states.

I think all 50 states and probably 4 different countries are represented by somebody to come in just to look at radio.

♪ >> Howard says most people think they're and to radios are too far gone to be repaired.

But he says these machines were made to last and you'd be surprised how easy it can be to fix most of them.

Well, where can you go to learn to be a butcher?

There's a school for it.

In Kentucky learned the ABC's of Cutting Mate tomorrow on Kentucky.

Addition only we'd have a story like that right?

We hope to see you again tomorrow night at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central on Kentucky EDITION where we inform connect and inspire.

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Take really good care and have a great night.

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