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♪ ♪ >> Good Evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Tuesday, November, the 26th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you so much for joining us this evening.

This election Day, a petition put an extra question on the ballot and one Kentucky town and Hart counties, Bonneville Community residents were asked if they wanted to dissolve their city government.

It passed by 7 votes.

Our Lauren Rogers has more on what the decision means for the future of the city.

>> The city of Bani Bill.

Population.

262 most the time people are together and help each other has a small town.

Bob's a small town with its own local government, but only for the next couple of weeks, there's sort of a division millet that the number of COVID be in or out and it was voted out a division and decision that have ruffled some feathers.

>> Cousins is my hometown and I love it.

And there's no sense of it going on incorporated.

Mayor Murray Whitlow says supporters of the dissolution more unhappy paying city taxes honestly didn't think that it would go.

But >> I mean, there's a lot of things that affect the decision yesterday.

Both sides today are really day.

>> At the end of the day when they're paying a tax bill to the city tax bill is what are they getting for that for the money for every $100 that you're given county taxes, I can go over to go out with 100 in like 3 service.

>> A new bill city taxes pay for street lights, something that will now be the residents responsibility.

>> The back row.

They're going to be totally dark.

>> It's 6 properties here and the Texans are really small now.

I'm going to be paying.

It ought take the lights.

I'm going to be paying probably in excess of $700 more a year.

>> Despite those concerns, the majority of services including water and sewer will not be interrupted.

The school will not be affected.

The fire department.

That's county fire department.

So it's not tied to the city will not be affected.

And of course, your post officers federal, they'll still be manago Kentuckyian their zip code and mail still get delivered as Manigo Kentucky Park County Judge Executive Joe Cho says Bonnie Bills city streets will not come county roads, a little snow or ice or whatever will be out there providing the same service system on a bill that we do the rest.

Russell County, these are just historical document council members like Kobe Smith now cleaning out city home.

>> If being through the history of their community dating back to the Mid 18, 100's as the building and its assets will now become county property must be the last Myers gavel city upon a hill.

This is a history of on the bill still needs to be kept.

You have whatever money is handed over to us.

We're not gonna spend it.

We don't put it off to the side.

Obviously that probably getting some interest.

The city hall when it's dated us.

>> More than likely we will hold title that I guess the last organization that's very active in Monte Rio is the fire department.

So, you know, they may be a recipient of that.

Judge Choate says there is the possibility of Bonnie Ville becoming incorporated once again.

>> And knowing that, you know, if it's 2 or 3 years, that has that option.

We're going to set everything to the side of you have that time frame.

Give them that opportunity.

At least once.

>> For too nutty that is appealing to those who want to preserve city government.

I'd like to see everybody come back together once again and Aldi, you know, helping each other instead of.

>> And the bees.

For Kentucky edition.

I'm Laura Rogers.

Thank you.

Laura Bonneville was officially incorporated on December.

The 12th 1955.

>> The last day for operations at City Hall will be December.

The 8th on the national front.

President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet choices are now complete.

We talked about those choices last night on Kentucky tonight.

>> Someone like RFK Junior.

I think that.

That's a situation has been very critical of a teenage HS right externally and to have him lead it.

He's going to put a lot of downward pressure.

The real, the real business of running the agency is Mike knows having served in Congress.

It's going to be the array of deputies that ultimately come in underneath them.

And we know Doctor Oz is going to be at CMS but Medicaid, Medicaid services, Medicaid, Medicare and Medicaid.

But yeah, I think that's what it is.

It's disruption and you have a few of these appointees, prospective appointees conference.

They were going to be confirmed.

I think that's why they're there.

>> But the end.

But the celebrity right.

I mean, he seems to be drawn to people who have a TV and speak well and present.

Well, our look good on television but may not have the bona fides in the qualifications to run in 8 years and stop them here beneath him at the deputy secretary level.

They'll be handling a lot of the data and that's true for any administration.

A lot of those deputy secretaries.

>> Are managing the nuts and bolts of turn the lights on, making sure everything's working in the building and everybody's doing what they need to do.

But I think at the head of state policies, he's going to help drive.

The daily ready set on on the agency and you'll have a number of of of these pix are doing the same.

So Democrats, are they justified in being terrified?

>> Yes, he is getting sick of fans to do his bidding.

>> I mean, people that are unqualified that do not want to question him at all.

And so, you know, we would like to hope that they're going to be deputies and people that are are going to do do the right thing or to try to, you know, talk some.

>> And talk to those were the trauma of a little boy.

Now.

>> Because if you really want to get in and start effect, showing affection, waiting policy change, there's a lot of things that that President Trump well, we'll need to have Congress's approval on.

But there are a lot of things that he won't.

We can concentrate on the crazies all this time.

We wasted.

>> Matt Gaetz, I mean, talking about allowing them to set the agenda, which I think was part of Trump's plan.

I think he just thought it was fun because the help who knows what the guy thinks.

But anybody around him KET that the guy wasn't going to make it to the attorney general but got it was Captain Von be a great attorney.

We're looking over here and the classic magician trick.

>> Watch over here.

While we pose the rabbit out of his pocket and puts it in the hat.

>> You can hear more about the fallout from the 2024 election.

You can watch that program online on demand at K T DOT Org.

Slash K why tonight?

A Louisville police officers shot during the protests over Breonna Taylor's death in 2020 is now suing the police department Officer Robinson Desroches is says he his superiors discriminated against him for expressing his opinion about Taylor shooting officer shot and killed Taylor in Twenty-twenty as they entered her apartment during a drug bust.

No drugs were found in the apartment.

The Russia says when black police officers discuss experiences related to race, they are vilified for betraying police and the lawsuit.

He says some police leaders tried to push him out of the department.

Walmart announced yesterday it's pulling back on its policies on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Often called Dei.

The company says it is not renewing a five-year commitment for an equity racial center.

It's pulling also out of a gay rights index and it won't use race or gender when considering suppliers, Daniel Cameron, the former Kentucky attorney general who ran for governor last year is praising Walmart's decision.

Cameron is now CEO of the 17 92 exchange.

It's a group and it proposes or opposes what they say is, quote, woke capitalism in a statement, Cameron said, quote, common-sense clearly tells us that corporations shouldn't yield their governance practices to an activist group of any kind.

We hope more major corporations consider turning the page on radical activism.

17 92 exchange Billy's.

This shift represents tremendous progress and is eager to help other companies moved back to neutral and of, quote.

Starting December 4th, the Lexington Recycling Center will close its doors temporarily.

The facility serves several counties in cities across Central Kentuckyian recycles an average of 200 tons of waste per day.

Kentucky Edition visited the center this week to take a look at some of the important repair work about to get going.

>> We're going to be shutting down the facility in order to do a couple of Whatever we do is shut down.

We want to maximize that shut down time and get as much done as we can in that time frame.

We decided to replace our Baylor because of the lies is exceeded its lifespan.

We get a lot of excess material that's coming out that Baylor right now because it's not able to bail as well as it should.

So.

>> What is normally typically place after 10 years we're on like you're 14, I believe.

And so it's time to replace that he's quit Mont.

We put a lot of money into it.

And at this point that Baylor, some of the parts are becoming obsolete.

>> So it's really critical that we go ahead and replace it before we just can't replace those parts.

It'll speed up the bailing process, not by much, but it will make cleaner more efficient bales.

And so that he and then the second project that we want to focus on is our Ted fabric structure recover.

>> And so this can fabric structure.

You can see that it's been patched recently.

>> It's just getting to the point where it's time to replace it because that's what keeps our products is dry before they get into our system.

If those materials are wet, especially with all the cardboard in the paper that can clot caused Janzen cogs and the system and >> we are running time.

And so we really want to make that run as efficient as possible.

And so that helps KET our products dry so that we can continue operations.

>> There is no other location at this time.

So I just encourage the community that just hang on to those recyclables because they are valuable to us.

We don't want that material going to the landfill or the transfer station because that would cause an increase in our greenhouse gas emissions if it was to go to the landfill and also our carbon footprint.

>> So we do want to take those products because they're valuable.

Some more so than others.

And so you want to KET those products coming into our facility.

>> The new Baylor has a price tag of nearly $900,000 while the tent structure will cost another $100,000.

The Lexington Recycling Center is set to reopen December.

The 16th.

Kentucky's first ever confiscated Shannon starts tomorrow.

Wave TV in Louisville says the online auction will last until December.

11th, a new state law allows the state to take alcohol confiscated by the Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and auction it off.

Money will go to programs that promote responsible drinking, including project Prom and project graduation.

Expect plenty of company on Kentucky highways for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Triple a of the bluegrass tells Wk it in Lexington that around 1 million, Kentuckians will travel 50 miles or more.

And 96% of them will do it by road today is considered the busiest travel day.

Drivers will dole out less gas money this time around.

That's good news.

As pump prices are down from previous Thanksgivings.

Safe travels.

We have new details today about the arraignment of Letcher counties x sheriff accused of shooting and killing a judge.

Our Toby Gibbs has that and more in tonight's look at headlines around Kentucky.

♪ >> Letcher County grand jury indicted former Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines.

Last week.

He was arraigned yesterday.

Stein's is accused of shooting and killing District Court.

Judge Kevin Mullins on September 19th in the courthouse after an argument according to Kentucky today, prosecutors will make a decision later about whether to seek the death penalty in the case.

WKU reports a safe haven baby boxes headed to Lexington, the Lexington Knights of Columbus Council raised and donated $15,000 for the Bucs Safe Haven Baby Boxes allows someone to turn over a newborn in a safe way with no questions asked 9-1-1, notice.

Sounds with the baby is placed inside the Lexington Box will go to fire station 2 in the East London area.

A group of Tibetan monks from India created a world peace sand mud, ala in Bowling Green.

It's a type of geometric design that celebrates inter-faith world peace and raises funds for their monastery.

Bowling Green Daily News says the sand was dispersed into the Barron River Saturday.

The Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame has 5 new members inducted last Friday.

The Hop Down Chronicle reports they are the late Lewis Pima can rate the Hopkinsville civil rights attorney.

The late Helen Dancer, a Berea chaired the Lexington Native American Heritage Commission.

William l Davis of Lexington, the first African-American to serve as director of the administrative law and civil litigation branch in the Kentucky Attorney General's Office.

Amber Duke of Louisville, the first black woman to lead the ACLU of Kentuckyian the late Virginia more and advocate for the deaf and hard of hearing who memorably served as Governor Andy Beshear.

Ys sign language interpreter.

With headlines around Kentucky.

I'm told to get.

♪ ♪ ♪ >> In my Lauren Rogers and we're speaking with Rylan Barton with National Public Radio getting our check of 7 news in state and national politics and right.

Let's talk about Kentucky continuing its rollout of medical cannabis.

We have earlier discussed that people that will be cultivating and that medical cannabis.

Now we're learning more about dispenser rates across the state.

Tell us about that.

>> Yeah, it's big news in Kentucky.

A meeting Kentucky's one of the last states really to implement a system like this.

And so this week is the dispensaries.

This is the the places that are going to be actually selling cannabis store fronts that are they doing this?

There is this huge flood of folks of different companies that applied to be those dispensaries about 2500 different businesses did that.

That according to a report from Kentucky Public Radio, the vast majority of those who both applied and were aboard those licenses were actually out of state businesses, which has drawn some criticism from in state businesses, especially Kentucky's hemp cultivators and processors and retailers who had thought that they were going to be well positioned to start off in this.

In this industry.

There will be another round of these dispensary licenses that will be awarded later on.

Just one example.

Here there's is one company from Arkansas was about 10% of the applications were from this one particular company in Arkansas.

They ended up getting awarded a few of those contracts and yeah, it just shows you that even though it was a lottery process, some of these companies that we're able to spend the time and energy putting together the applications and putting together multiple of the applications were able to, you know.

Game the system to to win a lot more of those licenses.

>> Seems like they did have a bit of an advantage.

So it'll be interesting to see how this all goes in Kentucky.

Once everything is set in place yesterday, James Research grants.

>> Yeah.

Years when folks will be able to start getting cards into for medical cannabis cards feel to be prescribed to.

But we'll have to get a note from a doctor and meet certain conditions and you know that we have to see how it rolls out, too, because there's such a narrow set of conditions that you can actually be prescribed for.

But these companies are really banking on it being a lot of that.

They're going to make a lot of money off it.

That one Arkansas company predicted making 150 million dollars over a five-year period from this.

>> 2025 will also bring a new presidential administration and a lot of talk right now about that Trump transition and what that's going to look like as he's been announcing his cabinet picks and Senator Rand Paul on face the nation this weekend reopen about that.

Some criticism cities had a president from and that includes potential immigration policy I think will win.

>> Yeah.

One thing that senator polls come out again since Donald Trump's promise to use the U.S. Army to conduct this mass deportation plan that he has that he plans to roll out when he gets into office.

Part of it is Rand Paul says that the the optics of this that are just wrong having American soldiers in conducting this business isn't right that the of this also lines up with a little bit of of Rand Paul's and libertarian bent already can follow.

He does say he supports the president's plan to, you know, to conduct mass deportations.

And there.

I think that this is there's a lot here that still also needs to be figured out.

And I think a lot of there's a lot of people within the business community that are are worried about this series of stories that NPR did earlier this week about folks in the construction industry in Texas worried about a labor shortage.

If deportations are conducted in this way that former President Trump has promised to do so.

This whole a lot of this will be figured out in those first months of the new administration.

>> It will.

And then I also want to talk about our state legislature and our Kentucky General Assembly and there was a report that was interesting about how some of these bills are perhaps fast track to the public input.

Is it taken into consideration as much as one would like to tell us more about that?

>> Yeah, the League of Women Voters has released this report a couple years in a row.

really analyzing but also criticizing the legislature for using certain methods to fast track bill so that it sees different.

There's a lot of different methods and one of them for examples.

Each bills are part of 3 public readings before the you know, before the house over from the Senate while they're in session.

But a lot of times those will be dispensed with very quickly before the bill has even pass out of committee.

So they're trying to get all their ducks in a row and they'll look at all look at all that this is taken care of and then they'll bring it out for quick vote, which I think the league is arguing doesn't really fit with the spirit of of what that's supposed to do, which is provide more time for the public to be aware what's before the House or Senate.

But they're actually considering voting on the version of the bill that they're considering working on another thing that they do is substituting language of late in the legislative process within a bill that doesn't reflect what the bill was originally and not providing the public with enough opportunity to respond to that they say that these fact track fast track bills account for 37% of bills that passed the House this year.

23% of the Senate bills comparing looking back to 1998.

Was only 3% of bills that passed by the Legislature have those kinds of methods.

So it's something that's really increased over the years.

And it's something that the public has had less and less opportunity to be able to weigh in.

>> Is it thought that the state legislatures and state lawmakers could look at that study and be concerned about that and take that into consideration and how they handle legislation in the future.

>> Yeah, I think they hope so.

That's not how it worked last year.

And I just remember in an interview with Senate President Robert Stivers who said that this, you know, that this just wasn't true, that the that actually the legislature does provide enough time and that this is an important process.

The legislature means to be able to conduct business quickly and efficiently.

But again, this is just that's out of line with what the just the public's rob Bility to be able to access and for them than for reporters to be able to follow what's going on in the Legislature.

>> Well, of course, I'm we are going closer to the next legislative session, which will begin in January.

Once we get through the holiday season and Rylan, we wish you a very happy Thanksgiving.

You 2 are and thank you so much for your time and insight as always.

Thanks.

>> It'll alcohol spectrum disorders are caused by infants being exposed to alcohol during pregnancy.

Researchers at the University of Louisville received a 2.3 million Dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to find ways to reduce the risk.

>> Our focus is on the genetics of feet off the whole spectrum disorders.

>> What we're really interested in is understanding how genes mutations in genes since that ties an individual to the effects of alcohol prenatal e. We want to understand what causes all these different types of birth defects we see in prenatal alcohol exposure and we want to try to understand the mechanisms underneath that and then try to figure out are there ways of looking at those mechanisms to potentially therapeutically treat or prevent?

We are expecting the source.

It's tricky because you have to think of since uprising.

Genes underlying this.

So one individual may see a same doses, a second individual.

But the genetics are going to be very different.

So one individual not have impacts to the alcohol.

Another will.

And we know we we see that in human cases where we know children been exposed.

Prenatal alcohol.

>> And develop hitting normal benchmarks, behavioral structural and then others that we know have a range of phenotypes associated with food.

Often spectrum disorders.

We know they were both expose.

We don't know the dosage directly.

We really don't understand the timing very well.

We know the earlier.

In development that you're exposed to more sensitive.

You are.

And that also runs into the fact that most women don't know they're pregnant during these very early windows to understand the mechanisms we have to be able to take.

Things apart.

So we have to create a mutation Ys.

So 82% of disease causing genes in the human.

The same genes in the fish.

And it does almost identical process.

So we can take the same genes.

We finding human studies.

We can directly test them in the fish.

We have to then look at the structures of the fish as they're developing to see what alcohols doing.

And then directly try to correlate that to a later stage of NBA behavior or operation.

Fischer model because we can very easily generate meetings and the fish.

They produce large numbers of extremely fertilized embryos so we can test hundreds of fish at the same time.

They're transparent.

So we can actually look into the fish.

Exactly.

Is the developing.

And because they're actually for allies, we can actually do this live and grow the fish up and look at these later stage effects.

We want a greater understanding of what alcohol is doing at the cellular and tissue level.

Write the B cells that are making your face.

So we study the structure, the face, the cells that are making your face there undergoing a whole set of interactions of these moving individuals are acting in Houston to have something happened.

But all of these things have to be seen just right.

If something is off, everything stops.

So we want to know what alcohol is doing to disrupt all these developmental processes that have to occur.

The only way we're going to do that to look in systems like the fish to see.

Okay, we can look at this so we can look at this tissue.

We can look early in development and then directly tie that to the affirmation and understand what's going on.

>> Dr Lovelace says ultimately they want to find better therapeutic options to treat the conditions.

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