And you don't succeed as long as he did.

In a profession like that, without being a quality guy, we remember the great Roy Kidd on the field and off.

A Kentucky congressman will be in charge as the US House looks at impeaching President Joe Biden.

The average age of a farmer is, I believe, 65 years old, 69.

It's in the high sixties and it's not getting any lower.

And you can't have food without farms.

The push to put some younger farmers behind the plow production of Kentucky edition is made possible in part by the KET Endowment for Kentucky Productions, the Leonard Press Endowment for Public Affairs and the KET Millennium Fund.

Good evening and welcome to Kentucky Edition on this Tuesday, September the 12th.

So glad you're joining us this evening.

I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for winding down your Tuesday with us.

College football has lost a legend.

Roy Kidd, who coached Eastern Kentucky to two NCAA Division one football championships and a Hall of Fame career, has died.

He was 91.

The school announced Kidd's death today in a release after being informed by the family.

The legendary coach had entered hospice care last week.

Kidd won 314 games with the Cardinals from 1964 to 2002 and won one titles in 1979 and 1982.

The Corbin, Kentucky native also led EKU to 16 Ohio Valley Conference titles and achieved 25 consecutive winning campaigns among 37 nine losing seasons.

The football stadium at EKU is named after him and there was a statue of him outside the stadium.

Sportscaster Dick Gabriel says Roy Kid's name is synonymous with winning.

But if you ever met him and got to know him as I did, you realize he was a quality person.

And you don't succeed as long as he did in a profession like that without being a quality guy.

You know, never a hint of scandal.

Hired really good people.

And then the smartest thing he did was listen to the people he hired.

His legacy was tied to just how competitive he was.

All you had to do was talk to him right after a game, win or lose, especially after losses at 80 mark.

But you could tell how competitive he was and that went back to him being a multi-sport star in high school in Corbin and wanting to do the same in college.

He wanted to compete.

And, you know, he never really turned into the kindly old coach.

You know, he was a competitor and a winner until the day he stepped down.

Roy Kidd is survived by his wife of 62 years, Sue Kidd.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in his honor to the Roy and Sue Kidd Endowed Scholarship at Eastern Kentucky University.

After a dozen horses died at Churchill Downs in Louisville in the spring, an investigation now says there was no single cause for those deaths.

The horse Racing Integrity and Safety Authority, also known as Heiser, released its report today.

Heiser looked at the racetrack surface, the horse's causes of death and any possible rules violations.

The conclusion the track doesn't appear to be a factor.

There was nothing in the horse's medical histories to suggest a pattern, and there were no rules violations involving medication.

Some of the horses may have been at increased risk for injuries because of their exercise and racing schedules.

Heiser recommends improvements to the system used to track and report injuries in case there is a need to add new rules.

After the dozen horses died in the spring.

Churchill Downs moved its spring meet to Alice Park in Henderson as a precaution.

Turning now to politics in Washington, D.C., House committees are moving ahead with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

This is related to the president's son, Hunter Biden and his financial dealings.

Congressman James Colmer, a Republican from Kentucky's first Congressional District, is chair of the powerful House Oversight Committee.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says that Colmer will lead the impeachment investigation.

The Republican nominee for governor, Attorney General Daniel Cameron, posted this on his ex social media account, formerly known as Twitter.

Quote, He says, I fully support Speaker McCarthy's decision to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

The American people deserve answers.

I have total confidence in my friend, Congressman James Comer to lead this effort, end quote.

Now, Democrats say this is a politically motivated investigation and that no one has uncovered evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden.

Kentucky will have a new chief justice in about a year and a half.

Chief Justice Lawrence VanMeter says he will not seek reelection in 2024.

He has been on the high court since 2017 and became chief justice just last year after Chief Justice John Mitten retired.

In a statement, just as Van Meter said, quote, The time is right for me to begin a new chapter and turn the reins over to someone else.

I am announcing my decision now so that any qualified judges and lawyers can make the decision as to whether this office and consequent election election campaign are appropriate for them.

I am grateful and humbled by the trust of voters, my colleagues, and for the support of my family.

And quote, Justice Van VanMeter has been a judge for nearly 30 years with service on the Fayette District Court, the Fayette Circuit Court, the Court of Appeals, and, of course, the state Supreme Court.

Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture Ryan Quarrels is one of three finalists for the position of KCTCS president.

The Kentucky Community and Technical College System announced the finalists today.

The other two finalists are Dean McCurdy, Provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana.

And Beverly Walker Griffith, President of Mott Community College in Flint, Michigan.

They're scheduled to meet with the Board of Regents, 16 college presidents, and participate in a virtual forum with faculty and staff in the coming weeks.

The new president is expected to begin no later than January 1st.

Coral's has served two terms as Kentucky's AG commissioner since he was elected in 2015.

He finished second in the gubernatorial GOP primary back in May of this year.

Judge has ruled that one of the state's largest unions can resume deducting dues from its members paychecks.

Striking down a recent Kentucky law, Senate Bill seven, prevents government employees from using automatic payroll deductions to collect union dues.

The Kentucky Education Association, which represents more than 40,000 active and retired teachers, sued to block the law, along with the Nicholas County Education Association.

They argued the bill unfairly targets teachers because it allowed exemptions for unions representing law enforcement and firefighters.

Attorney General Daniel Cameron joined the lawsuit and his office argued in favor of the bill, saying the legislature is capable of differentiating between teachers and jobs that are considered hazardous.

And his ruling, Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate, said.

Seven Bill seven Senate Bill seven, quote, allowed the General Assembly to arbitrarily select which layer labor organizations get to participate in the optic of using public resources to support partizan political activity and quote.

We talked earlier with Eddie Campbell, who is president of the Kentucky Education Association, and he had this to say.

What the Senate Bill seven did was take away payroll deduction, not the option for payroll deduction for our union members.

And we were all arguing equal protection under the law because it carved out other group of union members and afforded them the same rights, but took it away from the like B.A.

and other educational groups.

So Judge Wingate order came down a few days ago that saying that it was unconstitutional, that under equal protection, that we had the right just as well as any other public sector union to collect dues through payroll deduction.

Why is it so important that A, when this particular case and this law be struck down for good, you know, everybody should have a right to be a part of their union, to be a part of their professional organization.

And that's what it is for educators all across the state of Kentucky.

We have 42,000 members that we represent, both retired and active about 24,000 of those are active members in the state of Kentucky who pay their dues to be a part of our organization.

And they understand and know the value of being a part of a because we represent and advocate for educators every single day.

We stand up and advocate for public schools, but most importantly, we're advocating to make sure that our students in the state of Kentucky have a high quality public education in every single community across the state.

Final question, Mr. Campbell, do you believe that the Republican controlled legislature is going after the ACA and trying to diminish its power and influence in the public policy realm?

I feel like we are a target because we do stand up for what's constitutional in the state of Kentucky.

We stand up for our educators.

We stand up for our public student and public school employees, and we stand up for the students in the state of Kentucky.

The attorney general's office is appealing the ruling and is asking for the case to be decided by the Kentucky Supreme Court.

Kentucky's health care challenges now that was the topic on last night's Kentucky Tonight as a group of doctors, lawyers and health care policy experts discuss problems with the health care system and how they can be fixed.

Our panelists agree that America's health care system is too big, cost too much money with much of that money going to the wrong places.

We have billions of dollars in our health care system.

What we need to be doing is making sure that money is going to direct patient care not to the people whose job it is to oversee what your insurance is going to pay or whether or not your the pharmacy is going to actually fill a prescription that your doctor wrote.

Because now all of a sudden, they get to decide if that is the appropriate medication for you or not.

So now jump in.

Jump in.

I'm just going to say the insurance companies, they call themselves managed care companies, but they're not managed care.

They're not managing the care of the patient.

That's what the providers are doing.

Their money managers, they manage the money within the system and they manage that money as to how it's spent, in particular 365 day period, rather than looking at a patient who might need a medication or a procedure that's going to help them for years to come.

And to me, that's not managed care.

They're just managing money in a one year time.

That's what they do.

And it's not about the money.

It's about the money that into Sandberg's point.

You know, we spend almost $0.30 of every dollar in health care just on administration.

That's double what other industrialized nations are doing right now for the United States.

We're spending about $13,000 per capita on health care.

The next closest industrialized nation is Germany.

There's been 7000.

Why are we so radically different in part of it is this over here that we're having to deal with, you know, like our managed care programs in Kentucky and Ford legislation for years to reduce the number of managed care organizations to handle our Medicaid program.

We have six.

We don't need six.

We've agreed to settle for three.

And the excuse I get is, well, it's too much risk, really.

You know, California, much risk of what?

To the insurance companies.

There's a lot of layers in the system.

And I would suggest that if we set out today to create a system, it would look probably very different than it does right now.

There's a lot of ways to try to attack that.

A Focusing on that is shifting from being an acute care paradigm to more prevention and health as opposed to health care or in addition to health care.

It's something that we need to do now.

The problem is that is an investment.

And so it's going to take some time to get to that point.

And we need to find our bridge to that investment in a high quality, lower cost outpatient services is hard to argue against and effective primary care and other services to help promote individuals getting into primary care and having behavioral substance use disorder treatment often fits into that paradigm.

You know, we have a lot of investment in high cost services and people need them.

But we also could address things, you know, get upstream of it and have a very different outcome over the next decade to decades.

You can see more of this interesting and insightful discussion online on demand any time at Katie Dawgs slash K-Y tonight.

Here's more health news.

We told you yesterday.

A new COVID booster shot is on the way to Target X Baby, an offshoot of the American variant.

Today, a CDC advisory committee voted 13 to 1 to recommend the updated vaccines for all Americans, six months of age and older.

The committee said the new vaccines will be available in pharmacies as early as Thursday.

The endorsement means the vaccines will be covered by public and private insurance plans.

The latest data from the CDC shows weekly COVID 19 hospitalizations in Kentucky are up more than 500% since July.

Still, hospitalizations are only about a third of what they were during last summer's peak.

Experts say you will be able to get the new COVID booster shot and your flu shot at the same time.

Action against two companies after a worker's death when a bulldozer flipped.

And there are plans to honor fallen soldiers, some from this year and one from World War Two.

Our Toby Gibbs tells us more.

And our Tuesday look at headlines around Kentucky.

Two companies have been cited after a Pike County man died in a bulldozing incident at a quarry earlier this year.

The Appalachia News Express reports the U.S.

Mine Safety and Health Administration cited Mountain Aggregates Inc. and Vizag Construction for not insuring 38 year old Joshua Coleman had full control of the bulldozer he was operating and for not requiring operators to wear seatbelts.

The report says Coleman's bulldozer went over an embankment and flipped over multiple times.

A proposal to memorialize nine soldiers who died during a training exercise earlier this year in Trigg County was discussed during a county fiscal court meeting last week.

The CDS record reports that soldiers died after two Black Hawk helicopters crashed on March 29th.

The proposal includes an annual service and a memorial with trees, a walking path and benches at the Lake Barkley Resort Park Airport, where the aviators trained.

A decision was not made on the proposal, but the Trigg County judge executive agreed the county should do something to remember the soldiers.

Paducah leaders and business owners are headed to Washington, D.C., to request federal funding for initiatives in western Kentucky.

The Paducah Sun reports.

The Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce is group fly in is focused on several projects, including the Department of Energy, Paducah site, Berkeley Regional Airport, build grant project funding and the Paducah McCracken County River Port.

The group is hoping for funding for cleanup work at the Department of Energy, Paducah site and Financial support for air service for Contour Airlines.

There will also be a discussion about Paducah applying for more money for the build grant, which would go toward downtown improvements.

A World War two soldier whose remains were identified this year will be buried in his hometown of Mammoth Cave in Edmondson County.

Q Public radio reports Thomas Franklin Brooks was captured when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands.

He died eight months later from starvation in 1942.

He was 23.

Brooks will be buried in Mammoth Cave on October 1st with headlines around Kentucky.

I'm told he gives the city of Lexington will have more paramedics ready to respond to an emergency.

Today, it was announced the Lexington Fire Department received a $920,000 grant to train and certify 27 EMT to become registered paramedics.

The Lexington fire chief said the city has been or has seen, rather, an uptick in emergency calls receiving more than 66,000 last year, most medically related.

He said the grant will ensure the fire department can adequately respond to all emergency calls.

This grant will allow us to not only continue, but to increase the capacity of our paramedic class, putting more highly trained providers on the front lines ready to answer the call.

And really, it all boils down to good, strong public safety.

We know that's the foundation of a great community is good, strong public safety.

So today's announcement will make our city safer.

Mayor Gordon pointed out that more than half of all registered paramedics in the state work in the Lexington Fire Department.

The Appalachian Regional Commission kicked off its fall summit yesterday.

HRC is giving $1.5 million to Kentucky to help people in recovery get back to work.

The mission is really about parity, that your zip code shouldn't define what you have or don't have.

And so the Appalachian region that is connected by these mountains from southern New York to northern Mississippi is about making sure that parity is whether it's highways, fresh drinking water, broadband, workforce opportunities, education that that we provide.

Eastern Kentucky mine, the coal built the railroads, created the steel that helped build this country, establish the strongest middle class in the history of planet Earth and get us through two world wars.

Now we've got to make sure that the eastern Kentucky was there for the country, that the country is there for eastern Kentucky.

So investments, especially in a community hit so hard by the downturn of the coal economy is absolutely critical.

And we're seeing some of those today from the investments in second chance employment.

I think the what we have found is when you go into a community and you have a real like symbiotic community, people are working together, supporting one another.

You find that your strongest grabs will come out of that area.

More people you have around the table having input.

Generally, the stronger that grant will be.

Plus you've got more people, them participating, more people pledging time, money, effort, expertise, whatever it's going to take, whether it's a power grant or an inspired grant.

It's about how you how you really pull that community together and then what type of relationship they build with the state so that they get support and sometimes match from the state.

Appalachia, but especially eastern Kentucky, has been ravaged by the opioid epidemic.

These greedy companies sent thousands of pills into small counties and cities for every man, woman and child.

They watched our people die while they counted their profits.

The people that received these awards today are doing the hard work to dig out.

Today we're investing in them and we've seen what happens when we properly invest in them.

We were one of only eight states in the country last year with a significant decrease in overdose deaths.

We've increased our treatment beds 50% over the last four years.

We have the lowest recidivism rate in the country.

They deserve so much credit for making that happen.

But we have a lot more to do.

We've got to continue to invest in them.

The I.R.S.

awarded roughly $14 million across 11 states through the Inspire program.

The average age of farmers in the state is creeping higher, currently hovering around 62 years old.

But a new program out of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture is hoping to support younger farmers with state dollars.

We spoke with a central Kentucky couple about how the next generation farming program has helped their family farm flourish.

I got into agriculture at a very young age.

I am a third or fourth generation farmer.

My dad, he's a cattle broker and AG is something that's been near and dear to my heart.

Going to UK saying in the College of Agriculture.

And then Rita and I, when we met in college, we.

Our dream was to start a cattle farm together.

We sell a large square bales, Roberto's little square bales, freezer beef.

So the freezer beef has kind of become a passion project of ours.

We've been doing it for about 5 to 7 years now.

And we love selling the freezer beef, engaging with our customers, engaging with the community, really embracing, sharing our story online.

And I think people have really loved being able to put a face to a name.

The next gen farming program is a program that's aimed at coming alongside younger farmers, maybe with a little less capital and helping them put in place animal working facilities, fencing, watering facilities, tire tanks, just anything farm related that's that has to do with efficiency and safety.

It is a project that is funded by the state of Kentucky and also our local county conservation district.

So what we do with that is it is for farmers who are just slowly starting getting into the area where they want to develop.

And also it's for younger farmers as well, where you can only be a certain age range.

It's a very broad investment program and it can vary by county up to $5,000.

The county can set the limit to how much they want to call share.

It can be either a 5050 call share or the county can even choose to do 75% with the producer only putting in 25% and receive up to a total of $5,000 if they choose to elect it.

Some counties actually have a lower amount awarded so they can find more producers, and that's what we've been able to implement safer working facilities and a better water system on the farm, which is important for cattle and also, you know, good maintainable fences as well.

So it's made our life a little bit easier.

Don't have to chase chase calves.

Well, the benefit obviously, is is economic.

It's getting getting some help paying for an investment into your your farm operation.

So we hope that these producers are able to utilize this for something they may not be able to do without, without our assistance.

And then again, see the benefit how this has helped their operation and then be willing to to make additional investments in the farm.

Being the mom of two young kids.

Safety is number one, and we want to make sure that we have the kids on the farm and doing everything with us.

But we also want to make sure first and foremost that they are safe.

And so being able to utilize this program and work with our conservation district, it's been a huge help for us.

What I like to think of is items that we're funding in this program today may be innovative today, but we hope in a decade they're standard practices in Kentucky.

Your food has to come from somewhere and it comes from a farm.

Whether is a farm like ours, whether it is another farm down the road, we have to know where our food comes from.

And we also have to support the farmers who grow our food.

It's a music festival and a larger than life location, so we introducing them to the ARC and we're introducing them to Kentucky and also to many different musical groups.

The 40 days and 40 nights of Christian music is the largest Christian music festival in the world, and it's in Kentucky, and we'll go there tomorrow, which we hope you'll join us for again tomorrow on Kentucky Edition at 630 Eastern, 530 Central, where we inform, Connect and Inspire.

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