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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Celebrity Reader Week on RADIOI. Your reader today
is Beth Musgrave. I'm a reporter with the Herald Leader.
Welcome to the reading of the Lexington Herald Leader for today,
November seven. As a reminder, RADIOI is a reading service
intended for people who are blind or have other disabilities
that make it difficult to read printed material. We'll start

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shower or two with forty eight degrees of the high
and twenty five degrees the low. Now, we'll read from
the front page in some of the headlines from today's edition.
Bed's engine detached from up plane shortly before crash by
Beth Musgrave and Taylor, Six Federal Transportation safety officials said Wednesday.

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Video shows an engine detached from a ups cargo plane
shortly before it crashed at Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville,
killing at least twelve people. National Transportation Safety Board member
Todd Einman said at a news conference in Louisville that
officials will be on the ground for at least a

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week as it investigates the crash. Ivan said in the
flight said the in flight recorder, known as a black box,
has been retrieved and will be analyzed to help investigators
determine the cause of the accident. After being cleared for takeoff,
a large plume of fire in the area of the
left wing occurred during the takeoff. Rule Iamond said the

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plane lifted off and gained enough altitude to clear the
fence of runway seventeen R. Shortly after clearing the fence
and made impact, which structures and terrain off of the
airport property. A post impact fire ensued. Amon said we
have viewed airport CCTV security coverage which shows the left

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engine detached from the wing during the takeoff roll. The
crash happened around five twenty pm Tuesday, November fourth, shortly
after takeoff. Three of the nine people killed were UPS
crew members. UPS and police officials have SAIDs UPS two
nine seven six was headed to Daniel International Airport and Honolulu, Hawaii,

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at the time of the crash. Ups said in a statement.
The names of the victims have not been released. Kyler Collins,
who said he works at Grade A Autoparts, was home
Tuesday when the plane crashed. The autoparts business is one
of two located south of the airport that was directly
impacted by the crash. He said three of his fellow employees,

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including Johnny Hawk, are still missing. John is a very
special type of guy. He'd give you his shirt off
his back. He's always there for you when no one
else is. Unfortunately, he is missing after the plane crash,
Colin said. Colin said the other two coworkers who are
missing are women whose full names he did not know.

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The debris field is more than a half mile long.
Officials have said I'm going to encourage people and businesses
who may find debris to contact the NTSB at witness
at NTSB dot gov. Governor Andy Basheer said he expected
the number of deaths to climb as search and rescue

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crews were still looking through the large the large field
of still smoking debris. On Wednesday afternoon, the plane reached
an altitude of one hundred and seventy five feet and
then rapidly descended. The New York Times reported, citing data
from flight flight flight radar. Twenty four. US Rep. Morgan

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McGarvey said at a press conference earlier Wednesday, he met
with NTPs, NTSB and investigators Wednesday morning. Twenty eight staffers
from the nt NTSB were at the Louisville airport. The
federal shutdown, now the longest in American history, had no
impact on the investigation, he said. We are bringing the

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full resources of the federal government to bear on this tragedy,
McGarvey said. Iman said initial information shows staffing levels for
Federal Aviation Administration traffic controllers at the airport was not
a factor in the accident. Iiman said multiple work groups
have been formed to analyze data related to the accident.
That those groups will focus on areas including operations, structures, systems,

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and power plants or engines. What we will do is
analyze the facts, determine the probable cause of this accident,
and then issue report on those recommendations. I'mon, said i'm SI,
and more information may be released out a briefing Thursday,
MD eleven cargo plane has been involved in eleven serious accidents.

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Ups said the plane was an MD eleven, a McDonald
Douglas aircraft. That model is the largest trijet wide body
airliner in the world. The model was first used as
a passenger plane that was later converted into use as
a cargo plane. According to Bowen, the plane was originally
built in nineteen ninety one and was later modified. According

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to flight Radar twenty four, which tracks flight's flight data,
the plane regularly makes cargo trips from Louisville to Honolulu,
with the most recent trip listed on October thirtieth. It
was carrying over two hundred and twenty thousand pounds of
jet fuel or thirty eight thousand gallons for its flight,
Louisville Fire Department Chief Brian O'Neil said Tuesday. MD eleven

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planes have three engines. Two are mounted underneath the left
and right wings. A third engine is located due to
the tail. According to an online database off flight crashes
by the Bureau of Aircraft Accident Archives, a Geneva base
group that tracks airplane accidents, the MD eleven has been

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involved in eleven incidents resulting in more than two hundred
and forty for fatality since nineteen ninety three. Some involved
pilot air or weather conditions, while other incidents were caused
by electrical and mechanical problems. The next article that we're
going to read from the newspaper is entitled these two

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Kentucky businesses were hit by UPS plane crash at Louisville
Airport by Piper Hansen and Valerie Honeycutt Spears. When a
UPS plane crashed near Louisville's Muhammad Ali International Airport Tuesday,
at least two Kentucky businesses were hit. The death toll
from the crash rose to twelve Wednesday evening. Kentucky Petroleum

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Recycling and Grade A Autoparts, both located south of UPS Worldport,
appeared to be hit pretty directly, Basheer Governor Andy Basheer
said Tuesday during a news conference. Scheer said Grade A
Autoparts had accounted for all but two employees at the time.
They do not know how many other individuals, customers, or

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others could have been on the site at the time.
He said, because of the nature of the fatalities, it
may be some time before we can account for everyone
or know that no one else was on the grounds.
Grade A Auto Parts began its business in nineteen eighty five.
It sells parts from new and used cards. According to

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its website, the management team is made up of about
ten people, though a complete employee count is not available.
The company is run by Sean Garber, who is CEO
of Algar Incorporated, which specializes in car parts sales in
addition to automo and metal recycling. Garber was appointed by
Bashir in twenty twenty to serve on the state's Unemployment

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Insurance Commission. He served his first term through twenty twenty
four and was reappointed for another term, ending in twenty
twenty eight. A Grade A manager not authorized to answer
questions Wednesday. Garber has yet to return requests for additional information.

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Kyler Collins, who said he works at Grade A, was
home Tuesday when the plane craft. He said three of
his fellow employees, including Johnny Hook, are still missing. John
is a very special type of guy. He give you
his shirt off his back. He's always there for you
when no one else is. Unfortunately, he is missing after

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the plane craft, Colin said. Colin said the other two
of his coworkers who are missing are women whose full
names he did not know. In a Facebook pace, Grade
A directed people affected by the crash to reunification area
set up at the Police Training Academy in Louisville and
Taylor Boulevard. We at grade A recycling care about the

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safety of our team, clients and community and believing staying informed,
the post said. Kentucky Petroleum Recycling, the other company, also
south of Woolport, is a provider of used oil and
reclaimed fuel recycling services. It began operating in nineteen sixty one.
According to the Business Better Business Bureau, Leo Schurff started

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at the business started the business to close the loop
on energy waste. According to scrap Monster, a trade publication,
Fort Knox and General Electric were some of the company's
early customers. The business was incorporated in nineteen eighty one.
GFL Environmental acquired Kentucky Petroleum in August twenty twenty three.

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According to a report from Truist on the years Quarter
four mergers and accusitions, the Canadian Wasteman company recovers and
recycles liquid waste from residential and commercial customers. A GFL
Environmental manager at the Louisville office that all of the
company's employees were accounted for but didn't have any but

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didn't have an additional statement to provide. The next article
from today's edition of The Harrow Leader is titled Pelosi,
Democratic trailblazer won't seek re election by Kevin Rector of
the Los Angeles Times Represented Nancy Pelosi, a trailblazing San

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Francisco Democrat who leveraged decades of power in the US
House to become one of the most influential political leaders
of her generation, will not run for re election in
twenty twenty six, she said Thursday. The former House Speaker
eighty five, who had been in Congress since nineteen eighty
seven and oversaw both of President Donald Trump's first term impeachments,

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has been pushing off her twenty twenty six decision until
after Tuesday's vote on Proposition fifty, a ballot measure she
backed and helped bankroll to redraw California's congressional maps in
her party's favor with the measure. With the measure's resounding passage,
Pelosi said it was time to start clearing the path

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for another Democrat to represent San Francisco, one of the
nation's most liberal bastions in Congress, as some are already
vying to do. With a grateful heart, I look forward
to my final years of service as your proud representative,
Pelosi said in a nearly six minute video she posted
online Thursday morning, in which she also recounted major achievements

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from her long career. Pelosi did not immediately endorse a
would be successor, but challenged our constituents to stay engaged
as we go forward. My message to the city I
love is this, San Francisco. Know your power, she said.
We have made history, we have made progress. We have
always led the way, and now we must continue to

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do so by remaining full participants in our democracy and
fighting for the American ideals we hold deer Pelosi has
not faced a serious challenge for her seat since President
Ronald Reagan was in office, and has won reelection by
wide margins. Just a year ago, she won reelection with
eighty one percent of the vote. However, Pelosi was facing

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two hard to ignore challengers from her own party and
next year's Democratic primary. State Senator Scott Weiner fifty five,
a prolific an ambitious lawmaker with a strong base of
support in the city, and Psychoed Chaka Chakra Redi thirty nine,

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a Democratic political operative and tech millionaire who was infusing
his campaign with personal cash. Their challenge has come amid
a shifting tied against in Democratic politics more broadly, as
many in the party's base have increasingly questioned the ability

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of its longtime leaders, especially those in their seventies and eighties,
to sustain an energetic and effective resistance to President Trump
and his MAGA agenda. And announcing his candidacy for Pelosi's
seat last month after years of deferring to her, Weiner
said he simply couldn't wait any longer. The world is changing,

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the Democratic Party is changing, and it's time, he said.
Chakra Baridi, who helped Representative Alexandria Ocaza Cortes topple another
older Democratic incumnant with a message of generational change in
twenty eighteen, said voters in San Francisco need a whole
different approach to governing after years of longtime party leaders

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failing to deliver. While anticipated by many, Pelosi's dicies and
nonetheless promised to reverberate through political circles, including as yet
another major sign that a new political era is dawning
for the political left, as also evidenced by the stunning
rise of Johan Mamadini the thirty four year old Democratic

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Socialists elected Tuesday as New York City's next mayor. Known
as a relentless and savvy party tactician, Pelosi had fought
off concerns about her age in the past, including when
she chose to run again last year. The first woman
ever elected speaker in two thousand and seven, Pelosi has

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long cultivated and maintained a spry image, bellying her age
by walking the halls of Congress in signature four inch stilettos,
and by keeping up a rigorous schedule a flying between
work and Washington and constituents events in her home districts. However,
that veneer has worn down in recent years, including when

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she broke her hip during a fall in Europe in
December that occurred just after fellow octogenarian President Joe Biden
sparked intense speculation about his age and cognitive abilities with
his disastrous debate performance against Trump and June of last year.

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The performance led to Biden being pushed to drop out
of the race, in part by Pelosi, and to Vice
President Kamala Harris moving to the top of the ticket
and losing badly to Trump in November. Democrats have also
watched other older liberal leaders age and die in power
in recent years, including the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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and the late Senator Dianne Feinstein, another San Francisco power
player in Washington. When Ginsburg died in office at eighty seven,
it handed Trump a third Supreme Court appointment. When Feinstein
died in office, Illney, it was amid swirling questions about

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her compency to serve. By bowing out of the two
to twenty sixth race. Pelosi, who stepped down from party
leadership in twenty twenty two, diminished her own potential for
an ungraceful last chapter in office, but she did not
con But she did not concede that her The next
article from today's edition of The Herald Leader is titled

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Demi Moore Tyler received Glamour's top honors, and this is
from Upi. Demi Moore and Tyler are among the stars
honored at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards. Other
honorees at the red carpet event Tuesday included Pat McGrath,
Rachel Zegler, Ms Rachel and Wnba Athlete. The theme of

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this year's ceremony was Sisterhoods of all kinds from the
ones were born with to the ones we find along
the way. Moore, who recently won a Golden glob for
Gold and Glow for her performance in the Substance, stepped
out in a black Ballanghainsia address. I love the theme more,
told hosts Brooke Nader and Grayce and Nat to me,

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the idea of sisterhood, my community of women friends is
just at this point in my life something I feel
like I couldn't live without. It's an anchor, and I
really just think that, you know, when one woman rises,
we all rise. And this is no longer about a competition.
This is about collaboration. It's very important just being able

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to relate to another woman, my music artist Tyler said,
and just having someone that you can trust with secrets
and trust that they understand. The next article from today's
edition is titled US to cut flights A shutdown takes
toll on controllers by Alison Versaprio and Sidharth Philip of

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Bloomberg News. The US will cut flight capacity by ten
percent at forty high value markets across the country, though
international routes will be spared to alleviate pressure on air
traffic controllers in the aviation system during what is now
the longest government shut down in history. The changes will
start Friday, Transportation Secretary Sean Daffy said during a press

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conference alongside the leader of the Federal Aviation Administration, Brian Bedford.
The agency plans to release the market's impact on Thursday.
The markets impacted on Thursday. The data will dictate what
we do, Duffy said. If the data goes in the
wrong direction, could you see additional restrictions yes. CBS News

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reported the list includes airports in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas,
and Washington, and also names cargo heavy facilities in Louisville, Kentucky, Memphis, Anchorage, Alaska,
and Ontario, California. The Networks didn't identify the source of

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its report and said the list isn't final. The reductions
are expected to be staggered, with US carriers informed Wednesday
night that they should plan to cut flight values by
four percent on Friday and five percent on Saturday. According
to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to
be identified because they are not authorized to speak publicly.

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This will be this that will build to ten percent
sometime next week, and international flights won't be affected, they said. However,
the situation is fluid and the plan could still change.
The people said the announced plans, if they impact the
top forty airports in the US, could cut as many
as eighteen hundred flights. Data analytics company Sirium said United

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States Airlines Holdings in company offered the first glimpse of
how US carriers may implement the directive. Chief executive officer
Scott Kirby said it will focus reductions on regional and
domestic mainline flights that don't travel between its primary hubs.
Duffy said the cuts were necessary to maintain air travel safety.

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Bedford added that he sees the FAA restricting space launches
as well. The FAA has been forced to slow traffic
at many airports in recent days due to rising controller
staffing shortages. Since the government shutdown began on October first,
air traffic controllers continue to work without pay, adding straining

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to an already stressful job. President Donald Trump also weighed
on the staffing related delays and cancelations. They're stranding thousands
of travelers at the airports, he said at the America
Business Forum in Miami, all because they want to return
to the failed Biden policies. Trump's comments at an earlier
roundtable with airline executives, where the latest rhetoric intended to

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ratchet up pressure on Democrats to affords a deal to
end the shutdown. Controller absences have increased as the shutdown
drags on. Duffy has said that normally staffing shortage cause
about five percent of flight delays, but that number has
been routinely higher over the last month, at times surpassing

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fifty percent. We are starting to seem evidence that the
fatigue is building in the system, Bedford said during Wednesday's
press conference, pointing to voluntary safety disclosure reports the FAA
receives from pilots, He said it was important for the
agency to take action to prevent the situation from deteriorting further.
Millions of passengers have grappled with flight cancelations and delays

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related to staffing since the airline staffing since the shutdown started,
Airlines for America, a trade group, has said. The next
article from today's paper is entitled Kim Davis again asked
High Court to weigh in on gay marriage by Alex
Acquisto of The Herald Leader. When Kim Davis then the

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Rowan County Clerk repeatedly refused to sign her name to
marriage licenses for union of gay couples in her eastern
Kentucky county in the summer of two fifteen. She set
off a firestorm that's still smoldering today. For me, this
would be an act of disobedience to God, she told reporters.
Davis's actions, which she has exhaustively defended through ten years

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of litigation, have been argued before nearly every tier of
the judicial system. She has lost appeal after appeal, and
judges and juries have awarded her to pay upwards of
three hundred and fifty thousand damages, but she still fights.
In July, her attorney with the conservative Christian legal group
Liberty Council, petitioned the Supreme Court to hear her latest appeal,

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spun out of a lawsuit filable by David Armold and
David Moore, one of the gay couples to whom Davis
denied a marriage license in two fifteen. Emerald, Moore and
Davis declined through their respective attorneys, to be interviewed for
this story. It's the second time Davis and her attorneys
have asked the High Court to weigh in. Their first

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request was denied in twenty twenty. The Supreme Court will
meet Friday, November seventh to decide whether to allow their
second request to move forward. Four justices have agreed to
take the case in order for it to receive a hearing,
which wouldn't happen until the Supreme Court's twenty twenty sixth term.
The decision to hear it next year could could come

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as soon as mid November. Davis's goal overturn Oberfell the
same Court decision she refused to obey in twenty fifteen.
This latest request has worried lgbtq Q couples across Kentucky
and beyond, but legal scholars say that anxiety is premature.
Overturning Oberfell is still a long shot, they told the

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hair Leader, and doing it with Davis's case is even
more unlikely. In my view, it is highly unlikely that
the Supreme Court will grant review of Davis's case, and
even more unlikely that it would take the occasion to
revisit Oberfell. University of Louisville law professor Sam Marcosin told
this a Herald Leader her argument at best and directly

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raises the question of whether the court should over rule Oberfell,
since her claim is that she shouldn't be liable for
defying Oberfell because Oberfell was wrong in the first place,
he said, And now, after a short pause, I hope
you'll rejoin us for the continuation of the reading of
the Lexington Herald Leader for today. Thank you for listening,

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and now please stay tuned for more news right here
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Herald Leader for Friday, November seventh. Your reader is Beth Musgrave.
We will start with the obituaries. We read only the name,
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at the end of the listening. Rose birtlecamp Robinson eighty eight, Newcastle,
Paul Edwin Griswold ninety five, Wilmore, Ellie Hawes eighty one, Lexington,

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Lionel Hawes eighty three, Lexington, Robert Lale eighty four, Lexington, Forrest,
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to you over the phone. We will continue reading from
the previous article. In regards to Kim Davis, the problem
Davis faces, Marcossone said is that even if the court
were decided now that auberfil was wrong, it was the
prevailing law he when she acted. Still, Liberty Council founder

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Matt Staver continues to call Davis the first victim of Oberfell,
and he accused Rmuld and Moore perpetuating a decade long
vindictive campaign to personally punish Kim Davis for refusing to
violate her faith. Staver added, if a Christian can be
personally sued, jailed, and held liable for their religious freedom

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and the belief that marriage is the union of one
man and one woman, then American's religious freedom is meaningless.
Kentuckians have played a uniquely prominent role not only in
defending heterosexual unions, but in helping the High Court legalize
gay marriage in the first place. Even before oberfell in
two fifteen, there was Burke versus Bashir in twenty thirteen,

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which references former Governor Steve Vasher challenging two laws in
Kentucky outlining outlaw and gay marriage, one passed by the
legislature in nineteen ninety eight and another passed by voter
referendum in two thousand and four. That year, Gregory Burke
and Michael de Leone, who lived in Louisville, knew they
couldn't legally marry in Kentucky, so they traveled to Canada

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and were married in two thousand and four in a
ceremony overlooking Niagara Falls, according to court filings and herold
Leading reporting at the time. Together since nineteen eighty one,
the couple has two children, but because of Kentucky's marriage
laws pre overfel they could not both claim legal guardianship
over their children. Into the American Civil Liberties Union of

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Kentucky only Burke's name was listed on the children's birth
certificates the same year they were married in Canada. Kentucky
voters in November passed a constitutional amendment explicitly defining marriage
as between one man and one woman and outlining the
legal recognition of same sex unions. It was a near

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replica of the nineteen ninety six Federal Defensive Marriage Act.
Once this amendment passes, no activist judge, no legislature or
county clerk in the Commonwealth or outside of it, will
be able to change this fundamental fact. The sacred institution
of marriage joins together a man and a woman for

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the stability of society and for the greater glory of God,
former State Senator Ernie mcgaha R Russell Springs said in
a Senate floor speech that year. Kentucky's amendment, which passed
with seventy five percent of the vote, also underscored law
passed by the General Assembly in nineteen ninety eight voiding
marriage licenses between same sex couples obtained in other states.

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Kentucky also still has a nineteen seventy five law on
the books that classify sodomy as a criminal misdemeanor. Defining
as a deviate sexual intercourse with another person of the
same sex. After marrying in two thousand and four, Burkeundi
Leone lived in Louisville for the next decade without lawful
recognition of their marriage or legal guardianship over their children.

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It wasn't until the two thirteen ruling in the United
States versus Windsor that gave the couple legal ammunition to
challenge Kentucky's ban on gay marriage. Edith Edie Windsor, who
died in twenty seventeen, was at the time the sole
ex executor over the estate of her late wife, the Aspire,

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who died in two thousand and nine. The couple lived
in New York, and their marriage was recognized by state
law ninety six Defensive Marriage Act, which defined legal marriage
as only a heterosexual union, meant their marriage wasn't recognized
by federal law. Windsors cried to pay more than three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in taxes Inspires, a state,

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which Windsor inherited after her wife's death. Had their marriage
been legally recognized, those taxes would have been waived. Windsord
sued in twenty ten arguing that the Defense of Marriage Act,
referred to as DOMA, was unconstitutional. In twenty eleven, then
President Barack Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder, both Democrats,

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declined and force the nineteen ninety six gay marriage ban,
calling it unconstitutional. In their landmark five to for a ruling,
the Supreme Court in June twenty thirteen agreed. The majority
wrote that the DOMA that DOMA imposed a disadvantage, a
separate status, and so as stigma on gay couples. Therefore,

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there law violated same sex couple's constitutional rights to equal protection.
This repeal was the first substantive, substantive blow to state
laws across the country that protected only the constable rights
to heterosexual marriage, and it paved the way for Oberfeld
two years later, with the Windsor victory in tow Burke

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and di Leon sued the state of Kentucky in July
two thirteen, arguing that their right to equal protection under
the law was being infringed by Kentucky's nineteen ninety eight law.
In its two thousand and four constitutional amendment, Kentucky has
elected to condition innumerable protections ranging from adoption rights to

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survivorship guarantees on marital status, they their lawyer wrote in
a filing. Yet Kentucky offers these legal protections to only
part of its population and refuses to allow gay people
equal access. A federal judge Hannen Burke and do lyonn
a major victory February twelve, twenty fourteen, striking down key

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parts of both of the Amendment and law. From a
constitutional perspective, the question here is whether Kentucky can justifiably
deny same sex spouses the recognition and attendant benefits it
currently awards opposite sex spouses, said former U. S District
Judge John Hayburn, an appointee of George H. W. Bush,

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wrote in his twenty three page opinion. Haybard's decision positioned
Kentucky as the first state in the South to issue
a ruling recognizing the legality of gay marriage. According to
the Associated Press, in a democracy, the majority routinely enacts
its own moral judgments as law. Kentucky citizens have done
so here for years. Many states had a tradition of segregation,

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and even are articulated reasons why it created a better,
more stable society. Hayborn wrote. Similarly, many many states deprived
women of their equal rights under the law, believing this
to properly preserve our traditions. In time, even more strident
supporters of these views understood that they could not enforce

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their particular moral views of the detriment of another constitutional
rights here as well. Sometime in the not too distant future,
the same understanding will come to pass. Then Cantornia, then
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway, a Democrat, made headlines when
he refused to appeal Hayburn's reliving from a constitutional perspective,

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Josh Hayburn got it right, Conway tearfully said in a
news conference where he were he to appeal the ruling,
he said, I would be defending discrimination that I will
not do. Two days after Hayburn's ruling, on Valentine's Day,
Burke and Delon's attorney filed Love versus the shar representing

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another similarly situated couple. Tina Love and Larry Zunza lived
in Louisville and married in Vermont in two thousand and
they wanted their marriage recognized in Kentucky. By that point,
five five couples had joined berkeundein On's legal pursuit, which
is gaining national steam. Lawsuits were emerging victorious in other states.

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Later that month, judges made similar rulings in Virginia, Texas, Tennessee,
and Ohio, where overfell versus Hodges originated. Attorneys generals in
those states challenged the cases to their respected u S
appellate courts. Plaintiffs in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee together
appealed to the Sixth Circuit in August twenty fourteen, asking

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that the rulings in their favor be upheld. By that point,
nineteen states in the District of Columbia had legally sanctioned
the right for gay couples to marry, but a panel
of appellate judges wasn't convinced it rested with the courts
to fundamentally change how states recognized legal unions. It should
fall to the people and the democratic process, they said.

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The theory of the living Constitution rests on the premise
that every generation has the right to govern itself. If
that premise prevents judges from insisting on principles that society
has moved past, so too should it prevent judges from
anticipating principles that society has yet to embrace. Chief Judge
Jeffrey Senten wrote for the majority, not long from now,

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if current trends continue, American society may define marriage in
terms of affirming mutual love, a vision under which the
failure to add loving gay marriage seems unfair. Today's society
has begun to move past the first picture of marriage,
but has not yet developed a consensus on the second.

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Less than six weeks after the Sixth Circuit's reversal, plaintiffs
in the joint case petitioned the U. S. Supreme Court.
The case is consolidated across states, including Kentucky, because including
Kentucky became known as aberfel versus Hodges. Justice Anthony Kennedy
delivered the majority five four opinion grating the legal right

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to marriage for same sex couples across the country and
nullifined state laws that historically prohibited it. No union is
more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals
of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. Kennedy wrote, as
some of the petitioners in this case demonstrate marriage embodies

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the love that may endure even past death. It would
misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the
idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it,
respect it so deeply that they seek to find it,
find its fulfillment for themselves. They ask for equal dignity
in the heights of the law. The Constitution grants them

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that right. The landmark case was decided June twenty sixth.
Later that day, then governor she directed all county clerks
to begin issuing marriage licenses to gay couples. Davis refused
to sign her name to them. In July, four couples,
including Armold and Moore, sued her for violating their constitutional
right to marriage. In early August, Davis sued Bashir for

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forcing her to comply with the directive, claiming it violated
her Christian beliefs. In September, Davis was jailed for six
days in Rowan County and drew national headlines for refusing
to heed a judge's order piggybacking on Basher's directive that
Davis must issue lawful marriage licenses to gay couples. Irmold

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and Moore one of the couple's licensed. One of the
couples denied a marriage license by Davis's office. Suit in
two sixteen, what Davis and her attorneys with Liberty Council
are currently appealing to the Supreme Court is that she
should not be held liable to pay the couple more
than three hundred and sixty thousand dollars in damages. Have
argued for years that she had qualified immunity, meaning she

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cannot be held legally accountable for liable or liable for
actions that may have violated state or federal laws, but
she has repeatedly lost before courts with this argument. Kim
Davis has a decade long track record of losing, and
there's no reason to think that that losing streak is

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going to end this year, said Lord Landowitch, one of
the original attorneys for Burke and de Leon. Neither landon
Wich nor any of the lawyers and legal scholars who've
spoken to the Haraw Leader thinks Davis's protracted case is
the right vehicle for the Court to overturn oberfewl. Davis
was acting in her capacity as a county clerk when

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she violated the law, not as an individual, they say,
and the statutory duties of her role were clear. Even
though she has claimed it forced her to violate her
religious liberty protections, It is it is at such a
preliminary phase of the Supreme Court process, which is designed
to limit the number of cases it takes, and this

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case has none of the factors which typically justify a
Supreme Court granting review. Land in which said she was
referring to the fundamental argument in Davis's case and whether
she can show a government employee at the time beholden
to statutory obligations would deny protections under the law. If
the legal issue is whether to overboo obefel, the court

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is much more apt to take the issue up in
a case that involves the state's attempt to deny the
legal right to marry or afford one or more of
the legal benefits of marriages to same sex couples. Marcossian
said Davis's case doesn't arise from a situation like that. Instead,
it involves her challenging the damages she was ordered to
pay for defying court orders and refusing to issue marriage license.

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He said. At the heart of Davis's defense before the
Supreme Court is a first right to free speech, which
includes the exercise of religion I right. Davis's attorneys say
she was denied and then punished for exercising. Emolds and
Moore's attorneys challenge the fundamental fundamentals of this argument October.

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Emolds and Moore's attorneys challenged the fundamentals of this argument
October eighth. In an October eighth brief to the High Court.
Davis's argument boils down to a single issue whether government
officials may assert their private First Amendment rights as a
defense to liability for their official actions taken on behalf

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of the state. The couple's attorneys wrote that argument, they wrote,
is simply wrong. Bill Powell, one of Armald and Moore's attorneys,
told The Harold Leader he was confident the High Court
will continue the debt, will conclude that Davis's case does
not merit for their attention. Marriage equality is set a law,
he said, I just want to be careful to not

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cause panic, because I feel that there is growing panic.
But I don't want the whole gay community to go
out and incur a bunch of legal bills trying to
protect themselves under this idea that their marriages are going
to evaporate land in which said gay people have a
valid marriage and they're going to have a valid marriage.
She added, if anything is going to happen to nullify

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that marriage. There's going to be a whole lot of
lead time to prepare and a whole lot of litigation
before there's any impact on the daily lives of people.
It's way premature to panic. This next article from today's
edition of The Herald Leader is titled Tump Trump weighs

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options and risks for attacks on Venezuela. It's by David Sanger,
Tyler Page, Helen Cooper, Eric Schmidt, and Devlon Barrett of
the New York Times Service. The Trump administration has developed
a range of options for military action in Venezuela, including
direct attacks on military units that protect President Nicholas Mandurah

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and moves to seize control of the of the country's
oil fields. According to multiple US officials, President Donald Trump
has yet to make a decision about how or even
whether to proceed. Officials say he was reluctant to approve
operations that may place US troops at risk or could
turn into an even embarrassing failure, but many of his

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senior advisors are pressing for one of the most aggressive options,
ousting Madua from power. Trump's aides have asked the Justice
Department for additional guidance that could provide a legal basis
for any military actions beyond the current campaign of striking
votes that the administration says are trafficking narcotics without providing evidence.

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Such guidance could include a legal rationale for targeting Madua
without creating the need for congressional authorization for the use
of military force, much less a declaration of war. While
the guidance is still being drafted, some administration officials expect
it will argue that Madua and his tops security officials
are central figures in the Cartel de les Soles, which

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the administration has designated as a narco terrorist group. The
Justice Department is expected to contend that the designation makes
Manduro a legitimate target, despite a long standing US legal
prohibition on assassination of on assassinating national leaders. The Justice
Department declined to comment, but the move to justify targeting

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Maduro would constitute another effort by the administration to stretch
its legal authorities. Is already engaged in targeting and targeted
killings of suspected drug smugglers, who until September were pursued
and arrested at sea rather than killed by drone strikes.
Any effort to remove Maduro would place the administration under

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further scrutiny over whatever legal rationale it does offer, given
the hazy mix of reasons it has presented so far
for confronting Maduro. Among them are drug trafficking, the need
for US access to oil, and Trump's claims that the
Venezuelan government released prisoners into the United States. Trump has
issued a series of contradictory public messages about his intentions

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and the goals and justifications for any future military action.
He is said in recent weeks that the attacks on
speedboats in the Caribbean Sea and the Eastern Pacific, including
another strike on Tuesday, that have killed at least sixty
seven people, would have expanded to land attacks, but that
has not happened. When asked by CBS News whether the
United States is headed to war with Venezuela, Trump said Sunday,

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I doubt it. I don't think so. But they've been
treating us very badly, not only on drugs. He repeated
his unsupported allegation that Maduro opened his prisons and mental
institutions and sent Trende Argula gang members to the United States,
a charge Trump has made since his campaign for the
presidency last year. The next article from today's edition of

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The Herald Leader is titled suspect accused of shooting killing
woman in Kentucky found dead, police say. By Christopher Leech
of The Herald Leader, the suspect accused of shooting and
killing a woman Monday in Mead County has been found dead.
According to Kentucky State Police, the shooting happened at a
home on Simpson's Lane in the Elkhorn community of Mead County.

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State police say Mary Crace, fifty five, was fatally shot
by Scott Hornback, forty five, who fled from the home
before officers arrived. The Mead County Sheriff's office contacted state
police around twelve fifty five p m. To investigate. Just
before nine thirty p m. Hornback was found dead from
a self inflicted gunshot wound in a vehicle out a

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family member's residence on Burgundy Lane. State Police said the
incident is being investigated by state police. Hornback had a
criminal record and previously served prison time for sexual abuse
and fleeing police. Harnback also has a history of domestic violence.
He has been accused of domestic violence and four separate

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silver four separate Kentucky civil cases, but only once was
a restraining order issued to Hornback, a three year order
issued in twenty ten. The next article from Today's Herald
Leader is titled Here's the accident history on the type
of UPS cargo plane that crashed in Louisville, by Beth

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Musgrave of The Herald Leader. National Transportation Safety officials were
on the ground Wednesday morning in Louisville after a UPS
cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff late Tuesday, cleaning at
least twelve people, including three UPS crew members. The crash
occurred about five twenty pm November fourth, according to the

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Louisville Metro Police Department, The plane reached an altitude of
about one hundred and seventy five feet before rapidly descending.
The New York Times reported, citing data from flight Flight
ear twenty four, The NTSB is expected to give a
briefing later Wednesday on the status of the investigation. According
to a post on social media website x Shipping Giant,

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UPS said the plane was an MD eleven, a McDonald
Douglas aircraft. The model is the largest three engine wide
body airliner in the world. It was first used as
a passenger plane, though was later converted for cargo use,
according to Boeing. According to an online database of flight
crashes by the Bureau of Aircraft Accident Archives, a Geneva

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based group that tracks airplane accidents, the MD eleven has
been involved in eleven incidents resulting in more than two
hundred and forty four fatality since nineteen ninety three. Some
involved pilot error or weather conditions, while other incidents were
caused by electrical and mechanical problems. Some notable crashes involving

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the McDonald Douglas MD eleven March twenty third, two thousand
and nine. FedEx Express Flight eighty crash site, Tokyo conditions
hard landing in windy conditions, leading the aircraft abouts flip
and burn two crew members killed. November twenty eighth, two
thousand and nine. Avient Aviation Flight three twenty four, crash site, Shanghai,

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failed to achieve takeoff thrust due to incorrect crew operation
of thrust levers. The aircraft overran the runway, three crew
members killed. August twenty ninth, nineteen ninety nine, Chinese Air
Flight six forty two crash site Hong Kong crashed while
tending to land in a typhoon, likely exceeding crosswind specifications.

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Three passengers killed. April fifteenth, nineteen ninety nine, Korean Air
Cargo Flight six three one six crash site, Shanghai. Crew
confusion over altitude led to an abrupt descent shortly after takeoff.
Three crew members and five people on the ground killed.
September two, nineteen ninety eight, Swiss Air Flight one eleven

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Atlantic Ocean near Halifax, Canada. In flight fire caused by
improper wiring of an entertainment system led to loss of control.
Two hundred twenty nine are all on board killed. FedEx
July thirty first, nineteen ninety seven. FedEx Express Flight fourteen, Newark,
New Jersey, crash landing caused by an unstabilized flare. The

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aircraft flipped onto its back and caused caught fire, zero casualties.
April sixth, nineteen ninety three China Eastern Airlines Flight five
eighty six in the Pacific Ocean. Severe oscillations occurred when
a crew member accidentally deployed slats during cruise. Two passengers
died later of injuries. The next article from today's edition

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of the Harrow Leaders is titled Lake Kentucky Governor Martha
Lane Collins to Lie in State at Old State Capitol
by Austin Horne of The Herald Leader. Late Kentucky Governor
Martha Lane Collins will lion state at the Old State
Capitol in Frankfort on Sunday, November nine. Governor Andy Basheer

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announced at a press conference Wednesday that Collins would lion
state at the downtown Frankfort Building from noon to three
p m. Sunday. The public will be able to pay
their respects at that time. He said. Details for an
official funeral service have yet to be finalized. Collins was
eighty eight years old. Collins, a Democrat, was the fifty

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sixth governor of the Commonwealth, serving from December nineteen eighty
three to December nineteen eighty seven. She is remembered for
becoming the Kentucky's first and so far only woman governor
and recruiting the massive Toyota manufacturing plant to central Kentucky.
Butsher called her a powerhouse at the press conference. The
governor's father, former Governor Steve Fasheer, was lieutenant governor under Collins.

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She recreated a foundation for us to build a strong
futur on and her legacy will continued to benefit Kentucky
families for generations. Governor Andy Basheer said she was a
proud Kentuckian and she'll be greatly missed. As a kid,
I got to see her in that role and the
strength in which she governed. I remember getting the opportunity
to go over to the Governor's mansion. She had a

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dog named Jinx. But she was just a great person
who later would provide good advice, a lot of support,
and when you continued the great foreign direct investment, she
had to benefit the commonwealth for decades after she served
as Governor. Basheer said, the current State Capitol building is
undergoing massive renovations and operations. There are expected to be

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a halt for the current state capitol buildings undergoing massive
renovations and operations. There are expected to be halted for
construction for several years beyond her recruitment of Toyota. Collins
is remembered for chairing the Democratic National Convention in nineteen
eighty four, speculation that she could have been a candidate

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for vice president, and her many electoral victories. Collins defeated
giants of Kentucky Republican politics, winning her lieutenant government position
against against the Dean of the House, against the Dean
of the US House, hol Rogers, and defeating late US
Senator Jim Bunning. Due to time constraints, we will have

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to end that item at this time. This concludes the
reading of the Lexington Herald Leader for today, November seventh.
Your reader has been Beth Musgrave. Thanks for listening, and
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