>> If you John Ally was around, you're going to have a great time.

>> People who KET and loved Governor John, why Brown junior share memories of a long and happy life.

>> We're under 100 square foot inside this building.

>> A man is living in a very, very small space to prove a point about being homeless.

That's the same.

>> Method pretty well that use largest pension bridges this day.

>> And what it took to build one of northern Kentucky's most enduring bridges.

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 Wednesday, November, the 30th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for winding down your day with us.

It was a day of tears, but also laughter.

>> The Kentucky State Capitol as family and friends said good-bye to Kentucky's 55th Governor John, why Brown junior, the businessman who led Kentucky from 1979 to 1983. died November 21st at the age of 88 during a private memorial service today in the Capitol Rotunda.

People who KET Governor Brown remembered a charismatic leader who was also a loving friend and father.

>> Governor Brown, strong personality and player were unmistakable.

Was a larger than life personality.

>> He's a businessman.

Heck, he even owned his own professional basketball team.

Throughout his tenure as governor.

He focused on expanding economic development, improving our infrastructure.

He helped open up the northern Kentucky regions for more trade and commerce by starting the Double-A High.

What?

He attracted new employers, including major businesses like UPS to this day place.

An incredibly large role.

>> And our economy.

We had a chair and our >> dining in living room.

That was John's chair was recliner.

We spent many hours.

>> Talking about politics.

Our love for you today.

UK athletics.

>> I never met a was around me.

>> who have a sharper mind that he's?

He was constantly in communication with me about the state of UK athletics.

>> He and I had her understand it.

We would have open and frank conversations about UK and politics, state and national.

We agreed that any conversation we had would be graveyard.

Which meant?

But if you're one of us repeated those conversations to anybody else.

>> We were dead.

I told him I would never be a Democrat.

He said I'll never be a Republican.

>> We're both the beta Dale's of both parties will agree to disagree without being difficult.

>> With our debates.

>> And after my mom died.

>> 2 and a half years ago, I called ton in distress and I said dad.

>> What is the meaning of life that I was just I just needed someone to give me clarity.

I just also lost after losing my mom.

>> Dad said without missing a beat.

To find your purpose and get back.

Don't just exist and make a difference.

The big beyond what you think is possible or what society tells was possible.

>> Life is a gift and every day should be treated as such.

A lot of this was advice that he got from his own dad that we affectionally call pop, pop.

>> And he finally gave in it.

We're just complimenting my life when they met for more than all the rest might.

>> He said son.

Tom, you really love it.

Family.

>> Thank you for sticking with me.

Everything we want.

It wasn't until this week.

I realize how much he really taught me what's left.

>> If you want to know the measure of a man.

>> Watch how he does.

And our father died.

Beautiful hat.

With all 5 children.

>> Caring for him.

>> My son is namesake kissing him on the forehead and whispering in his ear.

Not many grandchildren can say that their grandfather is that he wrote.

Moments after he died.

I looked at it.

And I said the states.

And he did.

♪ >> If you missed K E T S exclusive live coverage of the memorial service today.

You can stream it on demand at K E T DOT Org.

Later this evening.

U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell yesterday denounced antisemitism and white supremacy.

That's after former President Donald Trump had dinner at Mar-A-Lago with the rapper Kanye West and Nick Fall into a white nationalist and holocaust in Ayer.

Here are some of Senator McConnell's remarks.

>> First, let me just say that there is the Republican Party branding summit we're watching for in person.

And any one meeting.

With people advocating that we want in my are highly unlikely to ever be like that it runs in the United States.

>> A reporter also asked Senator McConnell if he would support Trump if Trump is the Republican nominee for president in 2024.

Senator McConnell repeated his statement that antisemitism has no place in the Republican Party.

Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul of Kentucky both voted no last night to a bill protecting same sex, same sex and interracial marriages.

It passed 61 to 36 with 3 senators not voting 12 Republicans backed it.

The bill requires individual states to recognize another state's legal marriage.

The bill now moves on to the U.S. House where a vote is possible there as soon as next week.

Senator Paul is one of 13 Republican senators opposed to moving forward with the national defense bill for 2023 unless the Senate adds an amendment blocking the military from discharging personnel because of their COVID vaccination status.

The senators say 3400 troops have been discharged because they refuse to get COVID shots.

Paul and the others want those troops reinstated with back pay.

And an olive Hill woman fired from her job in a hospital is now suing that hospital saying it ignored her religious objections to get the COVID vaccine.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports.

Tiffany Smith is suing Saint Claire Healthcare in federal court.

Smith says she submitted a religious exemption form after the hospital required her to get COVID vaccines in 2021, the hospital turned down her request and fired her when she didn't get her first shot.

Smith was a certified lab assistant.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has joined 17 other attorneys general asking FedEX to clarify its policies on firearm sales.

Cameron and the others want to know if FedEX is creating a database of gun buyers.

Cameron says he wants to protect Kentucky gun owners from the dangers of a centralized gun database.

He says that would undermine gun owners.

Second Amendment protections.

Election officials in 2 counties are reviewing ballots before statehouse.

Race can be decided.

Democratic Representative Carolyn Stephenson received just 35 votes more that her Republican challenger, Jim Coleman, Stevenson represents House district 88, which covers part of Scott and Fayette counties.

The Scott County Clerk's office began a recount today, which is counting each vote cast.

The Fayette County Clerk's office says it will conduct a recount on December 5th and 6.

Karen Sellers is the executive director of the state Board of Elections.

She explains what will happen next.

>> Once they complete.

The recount, then they have belief or cough.

The next day after the recount is completed present that result, number to the secretary of state's office.

They will certify the numbers and then the state Board of Elections Wood come but together with the forum when, you know, when they can have a quorum and certify the results that the secretary of state presents back to us.

>> State law requires a recount when the margin of victory is half of a percentage point or lower.

Both candidates are allowed to be present, although neither candidate was there for today.

And Scott County.

Today, the University of Louisville introduced Kim shot.

So as the school's 19th president most recently shop, so was president of Townsend University and Maryland.

She is originally from New York, received her bachelor's degree at Washington University in St. Louis.

And on a doctorate in Business administration from Michigan State University.

She also says her number one goal is to make U of L a role model of excellence.

I really believe in excellence as a This institution has.

>> Great foundations.

It's nationally and internationally known it has the resources and the talent to be able achieve great things and answer the questions that we've said.

I wanted to have a preeminent reputation in research and teaching and learning in the arts and athletics.

And I believe that we will be able to accomplish that working together.

>> Shots will is taking over for Lori Stewart, Gonzales, who was leading the school on an interim basis.

Former President Neeli Bendapudi was named president of Pennsylvania State University in December of last year.

Shots will formally takes over at U of L on February.

The first.

Jefferson County Public school teachers are getting a raise.

>> The Courier Journal reports the Jefferson County Board of Education voted for that raise yesterday.

This is an effort to attract and KET teachers at a time when there's a nationwide shortage.

This is the second substantial raise for teachers and the last 2 years.

And there are other perks.

The board also voted to cut back on teachers, paperwork and to create a task force to see how paperwork and meetings affect teachers.

Teachers will also be able to take half days for doctors appointments so they won't have to use a full sick day.

The price of gas is good.

News is going down again.

According to AAA, the average price for a gallon of unleaded is now $3 and $0.20.

>> That's compared to 3.38 a month ago.

And the national average is now 3.49, the cheapest gas in Kentucky is in Henderson where the average price is $2.81 for a gallon of unleaded the highest gas prices in Campbell County near Cincinnati, where it's 3.72.

♪ Time now for our traditional midweek.

Check in on some major political developments in Kentuckyian beyond with.

>> Public radio journalist Rylan Barton, who is the managing editor of Kentucky Public Radio and Ohio Valley Resource.

Good to see your island.

>> In CT Renee.

>> So let's start off and talk about some national news involving the U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

He came out and took aim at president.

A former President, Donald Trump about his meeting with Kanye West or the artist, formerly known as Kanye West in a white-supremacist.

How strong were McConnell's words against Trump?

>> They're pretty defendants.

You the call came out and said there's no room in the Republican Party for antisemitism or white supremacy.

You know, really, a lot of these comments are directed of white nationalist and Holocaust.

An iron Nick went ace who had a meeting with the former president and Kanye West.

Yeah, there's a small McConnell was asked a question about this and, you know, look, I think because really been trying for a while to kind of, you know, distance the Republican Party from you know, from the former president from especially this part of, you know, the former president's legacy and I think this is another moment where he can really trying it solely defined that the Republican Party doesn't stand for this.

No grand there.

So a lot of fans of the former president within the especially as the former president is not going to run for president again.

But and I think that this is this is just one opening salvo, if you will, kind of like going into the presidential election in 2024 of of McConnell and some other top Republicans really kind of trying to trying to move on from the former president.

>> Wine, according to news reports about the national Media, McConnell did stop short of saying he would.

Support or not support former President Donald Trump if he were to secure the Republican nomination for President.

>> Yeah.

And that's true.

that's that's the line for McConnell really want once he's really asked specifically about okay, does this mean, you know, we're we're totally moving on.

Does this mean you can down?

The former president is never going to come out and be so direct and not regarded talking about it.

But, you know, it's kind of these angling of statements that are trying to kind of talk around the former president and just almost as if he's not as if he's not really part of the conversation.

All of you know, it possibly incoming of a possible House Speaker Mike McCarthy kind of made similar saying that he didn't know when it went.

It wasn't enough in trying to avoid directly tying the former president to this issue.

I think it Lisa McConnell's case, it's it's kind of a problem you'd prefer to not have to deal with this point.

>> Ryan is the sound bite we've heard in the quote.

We've heard Arsene and he says that any one meeting with Antisemites unlikely to ever be elected president.

So maybe that's a strong as much of management Senate minority Leader Mitch McConnell is going to get.

So let's talk about on the state level.

We've had some more developments in the 2023 primary for attorney general.

Let's start there.

A state representative Pamela Stephenson says she wants to seek the Democratic nomination for attorney general.

>> That's State Representative Stevenson has been in the House since 2020.

She announced last week during the Thanksgiving Week or rather she filed her intent to campaign for last week.

And get She's the first Democrat to get into the race.

The only other candidates, former U.S. attorney Russell Coleman.

So we right now we just have 2 candidates and we there's a lot of time ahead of the primary or have the filing deadline for the primary election next.

May the deadlines in But Representative she's a She is a U.S. Air Force veteran.

Choose the JAG attorney in the for more than 2 decades and it was really one of the more more outspoken, a Democrats in the and rising up to speak out against a lot of Republican bills are moving through the legislature, specially trained the Coronavirus pandemic a she's a stepped up and talked about police violence as And so she's just kind of one of those more vocal advocates that the Democrats have right now.

>> Right.

And particularly when it comes to social and racial justice issues.

Of course she is in Jefferson County.

So to be interesting, how the handling that Daniel Cameron head of the Breonna Taylor case will really be used in this campaign.

>> And interesting, too, that this is an open election Daniel Cameron is elected to not run for.

Attorney general again said run for governor.

we do have an open seat to makes a little bit more of Representative Stevenson.

Also the first black woman to run for this office.

it will be it will be a race to And and we'll see how of how it all shakes out.

>> Another race to follow the Republican primary for AG commissioner voted a little bit as a former state representative and former House Majority Leader Jonathan Shell is in the race now and he's running against so far.

State Representative Richard Heath.

>> A Republican as Representative Shell got into this through.

He announced that his intent to run last for time.

Israel Rising star in the Republican Party in A lot of people credited him with the Republicans.

I'm taking control of the House in 2016.

He was in charge of candidate Now is this is this big moment when Republicans won the House for the first time in almost a century, he was toppled in a Republican was a 2018 after that.

which is a big surprise to a lot of by this is that amid the teacher or a protest over and tweets the pension system that the Republicans and former governor Matt Bevin were attempting to make.

But you Ve kind of state makes it is part of a McConnell's re-election campaign in and he's been angling for this job for a while.

And this agriculture commissioner position is really become a bit of a stepping stone in Kentucky.

Politics, former Agriculture Commissioner Jamie Comber obviously becoming bowl running for governor and losing that race and then becoming a congressman.

And now we see right Kirt Commissioner Ryan Quarles running for governor.

I think that we were sure to see a lot more of Jonathan Shell in the coming years.

Yeah.

>> Well, thank you, Robin Barton, for keeping your finger on the pulse of it all.

We appreciate you and we'll see you next week.

National politics and its impact on Kentucky will be our focus on the next Kentucky.

Tonight, our guests will discuss what the recent midterm elections will mean for some Kentucky lawmakers.

That's Monday night, 8 Eastern 7 central right here on KET.

♪ For the second year in a row, Johnny Temple and has moved into 100 square foot shock for a week.

>> To raise awareness for the homeless population in Jessamine County braving the wind, the rain and cold temperatures.

He hopes this helps the community realize homelessness isn't just a problem in large cities and they were all need to come together to provide solutions.

>> We're under 100 square foot inside this building.

I'm living in a shack of reclaimed materials it for this week to try to to bring awareness to the situation in our area.

And on top of it.

>> Also talking about substandard housing in last of affordable housing in our area.

The.

>> To me it's all centered around homelessness issues where that I started it last year to us.

The biggest goes, the in in our particular detail on that.

It's diminish an every day.

But there was a major mindset 7 years ago about a denial of the homeless problem that our county.

And that's because of what an incredibly visible we have to see.

Homelessness is a, although some of the same problem.

It's not a it's not a cookie cutter situation at all.

It.

you know that that's our biggest thing is the communities.

We get to defy the tests that it doesn't fit the stereotype.

That would that we might have for years.

It's not a big city problem in the longer people also need to realize that homelessness in ways that they don't see because of their perspectives different.

They're not all sleeping in the tree line with a blue tarp In fact, most homelessness occurs in a friend or relative's house of somebody's couch One argument away from being kicked out on the street.

That's where most homes this So even though this is not a true >> representation, but it's actually a spectrum.

There's all different of homelessness.

And we need to realize that because it if we focus as a community engage and the way we shouldn't offer services sooner in a in an environment that's not stigmatized.

People might not be on that tree line in a blue tarp.

If we can and help them make it comfortable for them to ask for resources.

They might literally be on that couch today and back in their normal lot.

2 more are a couple weeks or whatever, like site.

>> This year, the in county homeless coalition is in a capital campaign fundraiser for a new facility.

They will hope will open in April the center for Growth and Hope will expand the current capacity and programs they offer to help more members of the community in need.

♪ The city of Covington and northern Kentucky is home to one end of a beautiful sky blue suspension bridge across the Ohio River and connects the northern Kentucky city to Cincinnati.

Here's a little history about how exactly this bridge came to be.

♪ >> The bridge was actually started in 18.

56 when a machine Cole got on board is the director of Covington Cincinnati Bridge company and he hired on John Augustus German immigrant who came to America in 18.

31.

He had studied engineering at the >> Polly Technical Institute in Berlin and Roebling himself was was a very well-known man really, by this time he started producing our role and then he also stern working with the state of Pennsylvania as a surveyor and an engineer.

And because of that, he was then invited to in 18.

46 to present a proposal to build a bridge on the Ohio River.

Construction began the bridge an 18 56 and for 2 for financial reasons.

Are construction came to a halt and construction began again the spring of 18.

63.

The first thing was the excavation of the >> footings for the towers and something that a lot of people don't know is that those tires?

Reston, footers that are made of wood.

The 2 sandstone towers that stand 200 feet tall are actually built on timber grill, ages for temper foundations.

>> That are about 12 feet thick, 110 feet long about 80 feet wide.

>> You read some places that But if you read Rowling's report, he said he use whatever was available.

>> But then the sandstone towers were constructed.

One top of that timber mask.

A lot of folks have said, hey, wait, wouldn't timber, right when that tear a really interesting component of that is it's always submerged in water.

So what happened is those tempers are now water logged without oxygen.

They do not arrive and they do not tear it.

>> Then they can started up with the Stowe Towers and the first 25 feet is faced with limestone because he thought that would give better resistance.

To the water above that sandstone except for some mind stone that he used to sort of make distinctive bans across to it and certain points at that point.

That's when may actually spun the cables.

And that was using roebling Ys patented process that he used to spin cables in place.

>> That's consists of a large number of individual.

Wires that that make up that ground suspension cable.

There's 5,180 individual wires in the regional suspension cable.

And there's 2,228 individual wires in the secondary suspension cables that were added during the 18 90's reconstruction.

>> Actually, that's the same method pretty well that use largest pension bridges.

This stay.

>> How interesting fewer Kentucky adults are signing up to be foster parents and that's affecting how and even where foster children live, the impact that's having on the foster care program.

That's coming up tomorrow night on Kentucky EDITION.

>> Which we hope to see your 4 at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central where we inform connect and inspire.

Thank you so very much for watching tonight.

I'm Renee Shaw.

Take good care and I'll see you again tomorrow night.

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