♪ >> It was created because there really was no tool available for the state to link people to treatment.

Quickly.

To someone, you know, needs help for substance use treatment.

We'll tell you who's providing that help and how you can get Its lightning in a The back as are headed to Omaha for a historic championship.

Where should be something here?

If you like color, there should be something here for everyone.

>> And you'll say color me there.

When you see tonight's tapestry.

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

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

The 12th, I'm Kristine and filling in for Renee Shot.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Johnson and Johnson will give Kentucky more than 9 million dollars as part of a settlement over the company sell a baby powder and body powder products that contain talcum.

This is part of a national settlement with 43 states for 700 million dollars.

Kentucky will get 2.3 million dollars a year over 4 years.

The states involved say Johnson Johnson misled the public about the safety of its powder products.

Customers have sued the company saying prolong use of talcum can cause ovarian cancer in women.

In November.

You will vote on amendment 2 if it passes, the Kentucky General Assembly would be allowed to consider public money for private schools.

That was the topic Monday on Kentucky tonight our panel talked about whether private schools are held to the same standards as public schools.

Supporters of school choice argue that while private schools aren't perfect either our public schools, I'm not saying this is a silver bullet that, you know, is going to solve our problems.

>> We've seen a lot of financial malfeasance in the public system as well, which got people in prison to 9 from here in Kentuckyian just recently been convicted of of practicing financial mismanagement.

But what accountability is there for that system.

And so if school closes because they're not doing well as as they've mentioned several times now, that's actually a good thing.

We don't want bad schools open failing students.

We want them that close.

You see that in the public in in Florida time after time, children would get up.

The go to school.

The teachers would arrive.

This sign on the door of their private school.

It said schools closed.

The students had nowhere to go.

The teachers were not pie.

That's anecdotal onto its also the truth.

I'm talking about the day, though, that the these kids were standing out there.

Well, in Florida.

Wanting to go to school and couldn't because their school because there was no warning nothing.

What about the kids who can't read but they get a diploma in Kentucky and there was a key point on that.

But I KET your The national economy is booming and 90% of the people who are driving the economy went to a public school or schools were and we need.

And so that's why if they're working great, then why not?

The parents will decide, right?

We trust parents, they'll make the decision that will make the decision to send their children to the public school.

And this amendment will change at this time and will draw hunt and it will drain the state budget and will hurt kids a rule communities who don't have the option to go to a private school.

Well.

See the full one-hour discussion online on-demand at K T Dot Org.

Slash K why tonight?

>> Last Saturday Israel rescued 4 hostages held by Hamas.

Hamas says more than 274 Palestinians died in the raid.

Israel says that number is less than 100 yesterday on the U.S. Senate floor.

U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell said Israel was right to launch the raid and that any deaths are the fault of Hamas for holding the hostages in the first place.

>> The brutal exportation of civilians.

There's a well documented character.

And Hamas is playbook.

These are after all.

The terrorists who repeatedly deploy their weapons.

And combatants.

In Albany schools.

Hospitals.

off.

In order to use civilians as human shields the detention of Israeli hostages in family homes.

There's a predictable extension.

Of this despicable.

Actors.

And every drop of blood.

Still as we can.

Is the responsibility of the party that violated the city's far.

A barbaric.

Anderson hostages.

And has refused calls from around the world.

The relation.

>> McConnell said many news outlets across the Western world were too sympathetic to the Palestinian side and the reactions to the raid.

It's Kentucky's biggest religious denomination, Southern Baptists today in Indianapolis, the Southern Baptist Convention narrowly rejected a move that to ban churches that have women pastors.

61% of delegates voted for the ban, but it needed two-thirds vote to ratify a ban that passed at last year's convention.

Some opponents argued there are other ways for the convention to stop churches from having women in the pulpit.

The Southern Pat Baptist Convention has kicked out to Kentucky churches for having women pastors in the past 2 years.

Emmanuel Baptist Church in Paducah and Fern Creek Baptist Church in Louisville.

The convention also voted for a new president.

Clint Presley of Charlotte, North Carolina, who says he supports the ban on women.

Pastors.

The Kentucky injury Prevention and Research Center has been connecting Kentuckians to substance use disorder treatment options for years through its website.

Find help now Kentucky DOT Org.

But now it has added another branch to include mental health resources.

We talked with an official to learn more about how the senator is continuing to connect individuals to resources.

>> Find help now.

K why DOT Org?

>> Was created in 2018 to serve as a rapid linkage to care tool.

So as we work with hundreds of treatment facilities across the state of Kentucky, for substance use disorder, treatment services, everything from outpatient to long-term residential, they create facility profiles on the website and they update their bed availability on a scheduled routine basis that way.

We know and are confident that the resources that we're providing to the general public or to any referral professional are accurate and up-to-date.

So anyone who's interested and searching for treatment can go to our website.

Enter some search criteria you can also enter in as little or as much information as you want.

And it's all location based.

So you're instantly provided with a list of treatment facilities closest to the zip code or city that you enter.

>> That have available beds right then when you're searching, it was created because there really was no tool available for the state to link people to treatment.

Quickly.

So the time that it would take often times people in the emergency department, health care professionals, also police or law enforcement.

It would oftentimes take them or their staff, you know, several hours even days to try to find a treatment facility that offered the services that they needed the payment sources that were required with availability across the state.

He actually just launched in March of this year.

I'm a new branch of 5 top now that includes mental health treatment services.

And people are looking for mental health treatment counseling, crisis intervention.

And then we also just launched a community resources tool that has it right now has about 1100 community resources and these have all been vetted by the staff here at Camp break.

But their social service resources.

So food housing shelters, places where people can find clothing, financial, U.S. resources, legal assistance, residential substance use disorder.

Treatment is a very common search.

As well as the crisis stabilization units have also been a common search.

And we see a lot of our searches in some of the bigger metropolitan areas.

But they're not too far ahead those numbers are much greater than some of the rural areas in the state as well.

>> Since the launch of find mental health.

Now K why DOT Org in March there has been over 5,000 first-time users to the center's website.

Louisville is an economic engine for the Commonwealth.

And that's what state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say.

And that's why they allocated more than a billion dollars to the river city in the state's latest biennial budget.

As Kentucky additions June Leffler reports transforming Louisville's downtown is part Louisville's downtown is part of that spending.

>> Louisville's Belvedere is common weekday but it home to events that can bring thousands to downtown Louisville.

>> One of the major things about the years not only bring in the town of traction and tourism stuff, but we got a look at the Humana Towers that we've got to have to do the deal.

>> The Belvidere's just one site downtown that state lawmakers want to improve 100 million dollars will also update medical and homeless resources and revamp the area home to Louisville's professional soccer teams.

>> When you go outside this county, people see little was their town.

They see little kids, their kids.

They want to be they want a strong move.

They were strong, Lexington, they want a strong will they come here?

They send their kids there for college a lot.

They come here to to the shopping and they want they want to live thrive.

That's the gospel truth.

>> Both say Frankfort sets policies that businesses and workers care about.

>> By reducing income tax.

Now, I know a lot of people don't like that, but I think it's a good play.

You look at the states that are growing, they have a lower income tax than we do.

And people in Louisville should be standing up and fighting like Pickford reduce the income tax because it helps us more than it helps everybody else.

Because what we always talk about, we send our money to Frankfort.

We don't get it back.

Well, let's not Senate the right front.

Let's KET it in mom and pops pocket.

>> And public safety.

>> But the most important thing, obviously security, nothing matters.

Input.

You can put 100 billion dollars in downtown Louisville.

If people aren't safe if they don't think they're safe when they're down here and it's not going to matter.

People in my neck of the woods when they talk about coming downtown.

A lot of them are just saying I'm not going.

And what I've learned is there's no easy fix.

You know, just and what does work is long-term investment.

It's long term.

It starts with child education.

If we're one number one to 8 of abuse and neglect year after year, those child victims more likely than not will be in the justice system.

If we don't have a fully funded education model of the system, those kids get left.

I mean, you know, that they're more likely to commit crimes.

>> State lawmakers set their vision and motion.

It's now up to the city of Louisville to use their own discretion and some additional funding to get the job done for Kentucky edition.

I'm John Leffler.

the job done for Kentucky The Kentucky General Assembly earmarked hundreds of dollars for other projects throughout the city.

A Lexington project is once again being recognized on the national stage.

The city's town Branch Commons received the National Recognition Award in the American Council of Engineering Companies annual competition.

The 22 Million Dollar Project was completed in 2022, it runs through downtown connecting town Branch trail to the legacy trail.

Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton said called it a transformational project for the city's downtown area.

This is the 3rd National Award for that project.

Howard Fineman, a well-known reporter, columnist and pundit with Kentucky ties has died at the age of 75 Vindman was born in Pittsburgh, but he went to the University of Louisville Law School and started as some Porter with the Courier Journal covering the environment and the coal industry and politics.

He eventually moved on to Newsweek magazine.

NBC and was a panelist on the PBS series Washington Week in review.

The Washington Post says Fineman died of pancreatic cancer.

What do we do?

♪ >> Good evening to you.

I'm Renee Shaw, along with Rylan Barton, who is a senior editor of NPR States team.

And we're talking as we normally do on Wednesday about some major developments in Kentucky on the political scene.

It's good to see your island.

>> You can see it here in it.

>> So let's start some news out of Washington.

We know that all of Kentucky's.

>> The members of the federal delegation, when those 34 felony counts, which Donald Trump or convicted when that was announced, they all quickly came out and announced that and criticized the district attorney in Manhattan and most of them have endorsed Donald Trump for president for a second term.

With the exception of 2, who are they and why are they holding back?

>> Yeah, Republican Senator Rand Paul and also Congressman Thomas Massie haven't yet endorsed the former president.

You know, I don't I don't think too too much to read into this.

I think that likely, you know, there are they both say they're very supportive of our President Trump, but at the same time, they say that they're they're wanting to hear more from him about a few different Thing mainly for Senator Paul.

He wants to hear more about the coronavirus and what's the president would do to get to the bottom of what happened during the pandemic.

That's been a a focus ahead of Senator Paul's.

Obviously, you've seen all these committee between the getting into these a verbal battles with with Anthony Fauci and and also says he wants to hear more about And these are, you know, this this is Senator balls.

You know, position in the Republican Party is always trying to to pull the party in a particular direction.

You know, sometimes it can be characterized as libertarian, especially on some of these taxing and spending issues but yeah, I think we'll we'll see you this time goes on over the course of this year.

If he ends up being satisfied by this.

But I think in the end we're going he's going to come out.

And he's already saying that he supports the park resident, but it's just whether or not we get the so Rand Paul endorsement.

>> Right.

And the same.

I think the same arguments are coming also from 4th district, Congressman Thomas Massie, similar kind of positions he wants to hear the president come out more forcefully Let's move to the Kentucky Supreme Court.

So last week there were some oral arguments heard at the Kentucky Supreme Court involving a primary election case.

And the very next day, the Kentucky Supreme Court found that Louisville State representative, a Democrat Kulkarni all was is disqualified as a candidate and that May 2024 primary because of a filing remind viewers what this is about and what could be next.

>> Yeah, firing mistake.

Was that one of official signatures on her no attention to become a candidate was somebody from the Republican Party a woman who had not switched their party registration should switch him, but he's just a little too late after the cut off point for for people have to do that in their 70's candidate you know, in some ways this this really is a technicality.

But it's an important one.

The Supreme Court has ruled Now we're at this point, though, are still trying to figure out what happens next.

the Supreme Court has issued its full opinion yet.

So they haven't really directed what happens next of both you know, the petitioner in this case and Representative Paul parties sides, they neither of them think that the second place finisher in this primary should and that being the nominee here.

But that still leaves questions on what happens next.

Does you know double a local just be able to pick a candidate, pick a nominee?

Who would really got to go on be the the elected representative because it's a there's no Republican running here or will there have to be a special election?

And if there's a special election, how are the candidates for that special election?

So those are things that are still waiting to figure out.

None of them.

None of this in just will determine control of the of the party or control in the legislature.

Anything like that.

That is just interesting thing that comes up every, you know, every couple years, there's always something new.

Some new rule we learned about what candidates have to do and what will set the fallen order of to it and stay on about yeah, to be legitimate candidate.

So it's a lesson learned about check on your signatories, right and what their party affiliations are.

>> They're OK, so final item before we bid you adieu, the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice still remains in the news and there was a a legislative committee hearing last week.

What's more on the that front?

>> John seems that the Herald leader who's been following the story since the beginning, it really raised a lot of the concerning things going on in Kentucky's Department of Juvenile Justice or Juvenile Justice system or the last several years.

And their son of reports of abuse.

Reports of neglect, you know, fires riots like there.

There's just been all these things John did a great story pointing out a ball starting with them.

But the state's new juvenile Justice commissioner of Indian White was warning lawmakers that the pass all these laws in recent years, lead to possibly lead to a surge in the number Jean lets kids that are ending up in the juvenile justice system.

So also 3 from 2023, those a bill that requires a are accused of violent crimes to be detained for at least 48 hours before they even get attention.

Hearing House Bill 5 from this year's legislative session.

That was the big sweeping anti-crime bill.

You know, it had several pres provisions increased penalties whether its homeless folks but just do a lot of A lot of different crimes and it's going it's predicted that there's going to it without having to something like 400 more of more people that would end up going into the system of each year, which is which is actually really significant increase for the system that is already really over stretched.

And they have they have to.

They have a lot of trouble keeping of attracting retaining workers to it.

So this is something every spot right now, especially as the Department of Justice said they're looking into Kentucky's Djj says so.

We'll see if yeah, try to cause any about to try to do anything.

The situation.

>> Yeah.

And I'm sure they'll be more legislative committee hearings during this interim about that issue.

And we know the djj is under a lot of scrutiny and a lot of different fronts.

And so a lot more to follow to come.

Well, thank you.

Ryan is always good to see you.

>> It seemed to run it.

Kristi, back to you.

Thank you, Renee.

Well, turning now to sports, Kentucky baseball has had a historic season this year and it's showing no signs of stopping today.

The baseball cat's head to Omaha, Nebraska, for the College World Series for the first time in program history.

Kentucky Proud Park was buzzing with pride and excitement as fans turned up to send them off.

♪ >> White has been delayed.

On behalf of our players, our staff.

We just want to tell you how thankful we are.

Were you coming out today for what you've done for this team, all fees and and we're going to do our best to bring home another trophy to make you proud.

♪ >> It's a historic day for Kentucky I wanted to be here and wish our cats good luck in Omaha and I hope we come away with the win.

>> It's amazing.

I mean, to see what all it coaches gone through and then came back and then he does this cereal.

They get they got to be proud it just thank them for doing so much for the program.

Go, Daddy.

I love you.

Lucas.

>> I hope that they know that they have a full state behind them.

And I hope that they know travels.

And so obviously there's going to be a bunch of pink hats in the crowd.

>> And I hope that they know that I'm a lot of us are rooting them on from home.

>> We're on our way to Omaha to, but we don't leave until Thursday morning.

And its are 3rd trip to Omaha it.

But this is the first time we've got a dog in the fight.

So we have a team to cheer for where we're in Oliver Blue and I'm taking my bright pink.

Can't.

>> The last time we were there, which years ago, we promised ourselves if Kentucky ever got there, we'd be there.

>> Its lightning in a bottle.

It just didn't happen that often enjoy every second.

>> Last week, Coach Minjee own was named the 2024 perfect game.

National coach of the year.

And it's a second time he's earned the award in his 8 seasons as head coach.

The Cats play North Carolina State in Omaha on Saturday.

That game starts at 02:00PM Eastern.

01:00PM Central time and the games on ESPN.

The CATS next game after that would be on Monday.

We wish them the best of luck.

♪ Keller is often one of the most obvious aspects to a piece of artwork.

And that's why Lexington Art exhibit is taking a deeper dive into color and how we respond to it.

The show is held at the Christ Church Cathedral as part of a program to KET rotating art exhibits and their church throughout the year.

So join us in this week's Arts and Culture segment.

We called Tapestry.

>> I think we all just have a profound feeling about color.

>> And I I think that sometimes we take color for granted.

But suddenly like when spring arrives in the tulips come out, we get such a wonderful feeling about it.

Color is very personal to most people, especially when they're walking around looking at art, they're drawn to certain colors like their favorite color colors that can really create an emotion.

>> Or I feeling and this show offers I've or subjects that is related to color like they're so wonderful landscapes.

There's a photography piece of a horse racing scene and then there's other pieces that use color at a much more subtle way.

So they're all kinds of different ways, too use color.

They don't have to be bright.

They can be I'd all but still be very emotional and very moving.

>> The pair of color is part of our rotating exhibit.

We have 6 different exhibits that we do every year.

But we also have a permanent collection here, too.

That has just beautiful pieces from the 1800's.

Historically churches throughout Europe of have supported the arts in support of particular us.

And that's why offense of the most beautiful, our and Europe, the scattered through the the cathedrals and churches around around Europe in.

I think we followed in the same thing here.

The cathedral's, a volunteer ministry within the church.

And we really have 3 goals.

One goal is to beautify the church.

The second goal is to attract people into the church.

And the 3rd goal is to provide a beautiful, sacred space for artists to show their work.

>> I think Christchurch does a great job working with the community to support artists.

They have a huge population of people who go to church here.

So it gives us a new opportunity for people to see my work that might not go to a gallery, but they come to church.

They look around.

>> Churches and cathedrals have always been a place for artists to paint there best work to the glory of God like that.

They told the noise that you wrote for the glory of God.

I think there is a real connection between creating and the creator.

>> The exhibits at Christ Church are open to.

Anyone.

Any artist of any safe of any belief.

And we have we don't even most of our exhibits are are not religious in in nature.

They're open to anyone who wants to participate.

Also anyone's welcome to come.

Visit the you know, we're open every day except for Mondays and Saturdays for the public to come in and see the are we encourage that.

It's part of our fabric part of the part of our culture at Christ to to support.

>> All levels and all types >> The power of color will continue through June 24th and then the exhibit women of color will follow starting June 30th.

Now to a developing story.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg has placed police chief Jacqueline when below r-al on administrative suspension.

He says it's because of her handling of a workplace sexual harassment investigation.

More on this developing story tomorrow right here on Kentucky EDITION.

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