>> This league Asian know it's about trans use physical well-being.

>> It was the most controversial legislation passed in Frankfort this year.

Now the fight is headed to court.

>> Kelly Kraft is not live in the state of Kentucky for 8 consecutive period of time of 6 years under the state Constitution.

>> So what's the verdict on whether Kelly Kraft is an official resident of Kentucky?

>> And award a prestigious as this one is was was really satisfying.

>> A Kentucky school gets national praise for going green.

>> Usually kind about 500 dozen a day trying to.

>> And mint Julep fans.

It's not just the bourbon back comes from Kentucky.

Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KET Endowment for Kentucky Productions.

Leonard Press Endowment for Public Affairs and the KET Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Thursday.

May the force be with you?

>> I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for spending some of your Thursday night with us.

The debate over transgender policy is about to go from the statehouse to the courthouse.

>> It's been more than a month since the Kentucky General Assembly passed the 2023 Sessions.

Most controversial measure Senate Bill.

One 50.

The bill has been called the most extreme anti-trans bill in the country.

One of the main portions of the expensive new law bans medical care to gender, transitioning youth.

Yesterday the ACLU of Kentucky announced it will fight that portion of the bill in court.

Our Casey Parker Bell was in Louisville for a news conference about the legal fight.

>> This it's about trans use physical well-being and why Kentucky's bam, they're essential health care.

Violates the U.S. Constitution.

>> Kentucky's omnibus bill on trans issues will see a legal challenge here constantly.

>> You know, subject to all sorts of statement even see from legislators and and pray for.

And so I I standing here and supporting them and saying we're here for you.

We hope that as well will provide that level is.

>> The ACLU of Kentucky has filed a lawsuit to the portion of this year's Senate Bill.

One 50 that will limit medical care for trans youth to direct the filing will seek to put on hold the portions of the bill.

The prohibit puberty blockers and gender affirming surgery before child's 18th birthday.

Getting even with the parents consent.

>> That is a fundamental right that parents should have the right to do, which is decide what is best for their kids and what health care their kids should be able to access in Kentucky should not be telling us.

No, you can't do that.

Here you can raise your family the way you want to in our state.

You're going to have to go somewhere else.

>> We got Senate Bill.

One, 50 will take effect on June.

29th.

The ACLU says not stopping.

The measure will put a burden on trans youth and their families.

>> These are choices and and out of rehab.

C the ability to go to another state to see the health care hero.

>> Says the families they represent filed under pseudonyms to protect their privacy for Kentucky edition.

I'm Casey Parker Bell.

>> The ACLU filed a lawsuit along with the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the law firm.

The ACLU legal director says the battle could take years.

The Family Foundation issued a statement in response to the lawsuit.

This is from David Walls, the foundation's executive director.

He says, quote, the ACLU is challenge of SB One 50's common sense protections for children and the harmful interventions documented in the complaint only underscore the need for Kentucky's protections against physically harming children in the name of the 9, their biological sex and transitioning them.

Every Kentucky child deserves to be loved, treated with dignity and accepted for who they are.

A unique individual created in the image of God as a male or female.

The off-label use reversible puberty blockers along with cross sex hormones, an experimental gender transitions are harmful and used as a gateway to mutilating sex change surgeries.

These interventions have no place in children's healthcare in, quote.

Lobbyist spent more than 9 million dollars during the 2023, Kentucky General Assembly Hop Town Chronicle reports.

That's a record for short session.

Legislative sessions last 30 days during odd-numbered years.

They last 60 days and even numbered years.

By contrast, lobbyist spent about 8 and a half million dollars during the first 30 days of the 2022 session, according to the Legislative Research Commission, lobbyist spent the most on the debate for and against slots type gambling machines often called gray machines.

A group called Kentucky Merchants and Amusement coalition spent $483,000 on advertising to stop a bill banning the machines.

Kentuckians against illegal gambling spent 348,000 in support of that bill.

The bill eventually passed.

The number of Kentucky children and foster care has dropped from about 10,020 20 to around 8500 now, Governor Andy Beshear says that reduced number is saving Kentucky money and that extra money should go to help the children still in the foster care system.

>> Every time.

Every child is a child of God and they deserve our very best.

the prevention and savings efforts.

Today, I'm proud to announce that we are investing an additional 40 been additional.

41.5 million dollars in funds to help support for foster children.

And for those who care for them, the funds will start being distributed this month to the 45 providers and 120 plus foster care agencies to help them provide critical care to foster children.

This will allow was to continue.

>> To provide the safety net and the outcomes that are most vulnerable children.

And you deserve in this state.

And we just continue on your efforts as well as the secretary and the commissioner for listening and the partnership and I'm helping us continue with our mission, building families and taking the best care of kids that we possibly can.

>> The governor presented a check for 21 million dollars.

He says that came from a because of the reduced number of children in foster care.

The Kentucky General Assembly.

Okay.

The rest of the money through the state budget.

President Joe Biden is asking cold and rational leaders to meet with him at the White House.

May 9th to discuss raising the debt ceiling.

There are worries the U.S. could default on June first, if the ceiling isn't raised U.S., Senator Mitch McConnell says the president is starting this process too late and a statement this week McConnell said the president can endorse the responsible bill that House Republicans have already passed and struck Senate Democrats not to block it in this chamber or he can finally sat down with Speaker McCarthy and negotiate directly.

The speaker of the House has been sitting at the grown-ups table for Mott's waiting for President Biden to act like a leader.

So I'm glad President Biden has begun backing down and finally invited the speaker to begin negotiating, end quote.

The House passed a bill that ties the debt ceiling to spending cuts.

President Biden wants a clean bill that does not link the 2.

A GOP candidate for governor who sued to challenge are just had his case dismissed.

And we have the order on Monday special edition of Kentucky tonight suspended Attorney Eric Deters said he was suing Kelly Craft claiming she was not a current resident of Kentucky which would make our and al Jabal to run for Governor.

>> And it's my opinion that based upon the public record that Kelly Kraft has not lived in the state of Kentucky for 8 consecutive period of time of 6 years under the state constitution, she may or may not have created a legal domiciled, but that's not it.

>> Today, Fayette Circuit Judge Lucy Van Meter dismissed.

The complaint.

The complaint reads, quote, based upon the materials, Kelly, Kraft is produced and tested 2 and played just review of them.

Plaintiff agrees.

Kelly Kraft has been a resident of Kentucky for at least the last 6 years.

Kraft was born in Lexington and grew up in Glasgow.

She graduated from the University of Kentucky.

And according to court documents has lived in a Lexington home.

She's owned since 2000.

Kelly.

Kraft is getting some outside help in her run for governor U.S.

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas will campaign for craft on Saturday.

May 13th 3 days before the May 16th primary crews will campaign for craft in Louisville and Richmond.

The appearances are billed as, quote, Get out the vote.

Rallies.

Kraft served as U.S. ambassador to Canada and then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under former President Donald Trump.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Maureen and Mike Saint John operate the Richmond-based Transitional recovery centers known as Corbyn's House and Jasmine's House.

The mission is a personal one for the couple as they are recovering from substance use disorder and it's a path they walk themselves.

>> When I got home, I was all alone.

And was I was done with the loft.

And the only thing that stopped me was the fact that my daughter.

Who would be the only one to find me then.

She would be the only one but fun than don't arm and my body on the floor.

And I couldn't labor with that.

They sent me to the Hope Center went on 12/8/2015.

been sober ever since.

>> I know I just give up on life I was going to commit suicide.

I got tied off Bush tomato.

My mom walked in and she it hurt me.

And this is it.

Get your stuff you have in my house and don't come that.

But I got dropped off election at the hope center them or to shelter him and I was scared.

That was my God moment.

And I had a long-term treatment at the Hope Center spent 6 months in long term long-term treatment.

I had a sponsor.

I want the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Try know something was about this recovery stuff.

I KET that something was real out there.

And I KET something was watching over me that's what I feel about it.

And how can we help people in Madison County?

We love helping people.

We've been in Richmond and, you know, either the road to recovery inside Madison County Jail.

You got to go back and help people and give back all its really given to us.

>> When you drive through town and you've got these homeless people and you've got people in the jail that don't have nowhere to go when they get out of jail for, you know, possession charges and, you know, I'd come home to Marina summary.

Let's try you know, let's try to open up some recovery homes.

You know, I believe people coming out of jail off the street or wants Hale that they should be welcomed at home when they get there.

>> I know has a sober liberty place came with the tools to stay sober, but I didn't really know how to live life.

You know, out here in the streets again.

So I actually Micah peer support at the jaw dog all the time where I go to meetings that I got her number and I decided to go They're sober living the Jasmine's house.

So I can get kind of really see.

You know, they could teach me how to live again, you know, because I didn't really know what I was doing.

>> It's just amazing.

The set by.

And what somebody coming in.

Robust didn't discuss that with nothing.

And to see them says steel, take suggestions.

Go to class good job.

Get their license but get a car.

Complete.

The program move out of the apartment.

That's what it's Seen these peer supports ran around like crazy.

>> For us, you know, doing whatever they cross a bleak and to make sure that we're OK, make sure we're fed make sure that we have everything we need.

Make sure we go see a doctor.

You know, the only person did that was my mom.

so that I was like, man, you know, like that's exactly what I want to do.

You know, want to give back.

>> Recovery.

A lot of people are making it about things that it shouldn't be about.

What it should be about.

Is the people that walk through the doors.

That's what it's about.

Finally moved out.

I got my own place.

>> I got a Add everything up right about that.

I never really thought I could do ever, you know, I love my life.

Good for her.

>> Alexis Kutch our return to Jasmine's House to work as a peer support specialist after graduating from the program.

♪ ♪ >> The Green Ribbon Schools Award by the U.S. Department of Education goes to schools that focus on 3 pillars.

>> Reducing environmental impact, improving health and wellness and providing effective environmental and sustainability education.

And tonight, education matters.

We visited Cardinal Valley Elementary in Lexington, one of this year's award recipients to learn more.

>> We have been working to receive this award for about 12 years.

Our whole school participates in recycling.

We do an annual creek cleanup.

We do lots of science based activities where they learn about how to make are and how that's important.

And then we also have a composting program.

>> It does take a little bit of education in the beginning of the year.

We go over what goes in the compost.

What goes in recycling, what doesn't go in the recycling.

I do feel like they have really embraced it.

You know, they see you putting something in the garbage that should be in the cycling them that, well, you do It should be in the recycling.

A lot of them are going home and teaching their prayers about sustainability and recycling.

Why it's important.

They are demanding that their parents generation, the grandparents generation.

>> Recognize and acknowledge the importance of climate change.

Not just not coastal areas are arid areas, arctic areas, but right here in Lexington Tech to wait a dawn and the teachers here at Cardinal Valley are doing are.

>> Giving kids a connection to the natural world that builds a relationship.

What also built an excitement to think about like, how are they helping to not only preserved but to conserve and to help our world pride in our day and age.

We have a lot of students and young people that have what is called eco anxiety because of what they see in the world and where things are going.

The data unequivocally shows that climate change is and will impact their futures.

I like a new generation before them.

They must be given conduit.

Something must be empowered to improve their futures.

>> Hopefully we can send a whole generation out into the world that takes those things more seriously so that we preserve the Earth for all of us.

>> The thrill that the kids get out of like being environmental and like helping.

And like when they come in, sometimes week icon posted seeing their pride and their excitement on their faces.

That's what makes me come here every day in education.

There are a lot of metrics to decide whether a school is, quote, good or not.

>> And most of those all fall under test scores.

And we also know that schools are good for a lot of other reasons.

Recognizing schools on platform around what they're doing on the environment and how they're connecting their building and the facility in the work as teachers is another really great way to say this is a really good school and they're doing excellent work.

I have seen the work that Miss Boyle and the students have done really the entire staff.

>> And to finally be recognized for that with an award as prestigious as this one is was was really satisfying for all of us.

>> Congrats to them.

Mary G Hawks at primary school and Danville also earned the award this year.

The 2 Kentucky schools are among 26 schools, 11 districts and for post-secondary institutions to receive the designation this year.

For Kentucky.

Teachers are finalists for the 2023 Presidential Award in Science and math.

Each state has a winner in math and a winner in science.

The 2 math Finalizar Marcus Black May of Fern Creek High School in Jefferson County and Benjamin Moberg or of Atherton High School.

Also in Jefferson County, the science Finalizar Matthew Bryant of South Warren High School in Warren County and Brian Welch of Madisonville North Hopkins High School in Hopkins County.

Congrats to all of them.

♪ ♪ Kaylyn just wrapped up its spring meet on the tracks as batting broke all records fans spent 224 million dollars at all.

Betting outlets WKU Radio says it's the 5th year in a row that came and set a record for wagering from all sources.

But Ray, during at the track itself was down a little with 60 million dollars during the spring.

Meet down from 16.2 million a year before.

The 100 49th running of the Kentucky Derby is Saturday.

You know, this was first run in 18.

75 and there are things about the Derby's history.

You might not know the track was and always Cole Churchill Downs was originally called the Louisville Jockey Club.

But many of the traditions we've come to know and love the hat, the roses, the mint juleps, our traditions that date back to those first derby races.

More than a century ago.

We caught up with Rachel Collier, director of communications for the Kentucky Derby Museum to give us a little bit of a history lesson.

>> The Kentucky Derby is the longest continuously running sporting event in the United States.

It has never not run since 18.

75?

So there is a gentleman by the name of Meriwether, Lewis Clark Junior.

He is the founder of Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby.

His name.

If it sounds familiar that Clark and there he was related to his great uncle was George Rogers Clark, founder of Louisville in 18.

75 the very first Kentucky Derby.

We had just a 15 horses.

There was a crowd of 10,000 people and the first winner of the Kentucky Derby is a horse named Era Staties.

He was written by a black jockey named Oliver Lewis and in 19 0, 2, the track was on the verge of bankruptcy and there was a group of investors who came in.

One of them was named Matt win.

Matt Winn was a marketing genius and he I wanted to make this race world renown and he did it.

He did it in several ways.

He would recruit the top horses and convince people you need to bring your words here and raise your horse in the Kentucky Derby.

And we got really lucky.

The 1913 we had a horse named on a rail who won.

He was the longest long shot to win the Kentucky Derby and still is to this day, the next year we had a horse by the name of Old Rosebud.

When all the Rosebud set a record.

So that was another thrill.

And then finally in 1915, Matt, when recruited a horse, a Philly named regret.

She what's the boys start to finish.

She led that race and she won by 2 links and it was just as Matt One predicted crazy media coverage, those 3 years and in a row were pivotal moments for the Kentucky Derby and that wind took it a step further.

And through the years he developed many of the traditions that we still know today, the Garland of roses, that is blanketed upon the winner of the Kentucky Derby.

He also started the tradition of the mint julep collectible classes.

He also started the tradition of the Gold Cup and it is a solid gold trophy that is awarded to the winner each year.

When you really look at what the Kentucky Derby has survived through, it is pretty incredible.

It has never not run.

We've always had it.

He's survived a World War.

It ran in June.

That year did around the for Saturday.

But rain in June.

It has survived the Great Depression.

Prohibition era Chrisman.

People sneaking in Bisbee know that.

It survived a pandemic which we all saw.

We had that September Derby.

But we're about to determine to have that are really we weren't going to run that tradition of not having around.

And then finally in 2022, it was rich strike was the horse and the victory that everyone needed.

He was the wars that didn't even belong in the Derby.

There was a last-minute scratch.

He came into the field.

>> Wow.

What a thrilling victory to watch him win.

And it was a story that people are still talking about.

You think about over 100 years of stories, whether it's the horses story, the trainer, the jockey has a neat story.

>> And then >> everybody who's attending or watching has a story about the bet that they made are the best that they lost or that they liked a horse because of the name.

A lot of people have a release specific or special memory tied to a Kentucky jury that they've watched or one that just stand out to them.

>> Now, before you watch the Derby Saturday, join Kelsey Starks and Chip Polston for inside the Kentucky Derby.

Find out more about the Derby's history and traditions.

That's Friday night at 9 Eastern 8 central right here on K T. Each year, almost 120,000 mint juleps are served at Churchill Downs on the Kentucky Derby weekend.

The quintessential drink is comprised of bourbon, simple syrup and meant it's no secret that the bourbon comes from Kentucky.

But did you know it is also from the Commonwealth?

Here's more on that from the Central Kentucky meant farm.

>> They're Nelson family and culturally go about one to 2 acres experiment and where the cell providers for the mint and the Chechen and some Kentucky die every single bus that goes there.

Every single square where we raise about 6 tons.

Haha.

It's a very personal It's a.

>> It's cold hardy.

And it doesn't like the heat.

Then like a hot summer's which it kind of works out perfect for for the nerve you know, this is the this is it's time to shine.

>> Philip, my hand with rubber bands to get my night sharpen their got to the film, start cutting it.

It has to be cut like 6 to 8 inches for it.

Fit in a box is and there's no machine that would do that.

Once that fits in your hand, that perfect size or if things can touch, you grapple with every band twice.

When we put into a tray we bring in and we are >> we're putting a newspaper around it that we that we and that newspapers going to wrap around a dozen bunches.

And that's basically what it basically going to act as a holder for, you know, however, long that stuff's going to be be colder, be kept.

Once we wrap it in tight, we're packing in lacks cardboard boxes and we're dipping it getting basically had a cold as I guess.

and we're going to color from there as long as you long as you KET it cool and KET it where it will KET for But we don't like to hold on to that long.

We like to, you know, get in cut and ship that within a few days.

If it's possible.

I'm sure there's some other guys to grow in a very small scale but no, I don't know that anybody is doing it to to our capacity.

Most people don't.

You know, there's the growers and Mexico and Florida, California, they all of our customers would much prefer to get here if they we've been told are for it is more aromatic.

Got to get a a better flavor to it.

When Joe up is equal parts.

Bartman and simple syrup and generally the taken model up a little bit of it and then put a spring in as well.

Kind of you kind break it up any kind unless the playground or whatever.

my little brother is better at it than I am.

He makes pretty good.

One.

That's pretty cool at satisfying to know that where the the so matter of a different it's been used.

There came from us.

>> Well, it's not Derby without a good men.

Julep Churchill Downs uses around 1000 pounds of freshly harvested meant each derby weekend.

Sometimes a dog can be a patient's best friend.

We'll head to Norton Children's Hospital.

Will you meet a few canines with a winning bedside manner?

How they help young patients relax and heal.

That's tomorrow on Kentucky EDITION, which we hope you'll join us for its 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central where we inform connect and inspire subscribe to our weekly email newsletter and watch full episodes and clips a K E T Dot Org.

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We got a great lineup programming tomorrow night.

6.30, is Kentucky.

Addition 8 o'clock is comment on Kentuckyian 9 o'clock.

A special program inside the Kentucky Derby with Chip Polston and Kelsey Starks is going to be a fun evening and we want you to be here with us tomorrow night.

In the meantime, I'm Renee Shaw, take really good care and that we'll see you on Friday.

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