10.3.25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the reading of the Courier Journal for Friday,
October three, twenty twenty five, which is brought to our
LOVELL listeners via Louisville Public Media. As a reminder, Radio
I is a reading service intended for people who are
blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult to
read printed material. Your reader for today is Mark Webster.

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This paper is in three sections. We'll try to get
through the first section in the first part, which will
last about twenty eight minutes, we'll take a break and
go to the second part. Will begin with the five
day forecast, brought to you by WHS Weather Impact. Today Friday,
the high will be eighty four tonight, the low sixty

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It will be sunny and very warm and clear. Tomorrow's
Saturday high eighty four, low sixty sunny and very warm.
Sunday high eighty five, low sixty five, mostly sunny and warm.
Monday hi eighty four, sixty eight, clouds with a few showers.
Tuesday high seventy five, low sixty eight, scattered showers. Wednesday

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high seventy two, low fifty five. Showers are likely. The
sunny and warm stretch will continue from today into the weekend.
Expect showers to develop Monday and become more widespread Tuesday
and Wednesday. High as will return to the seventies by
the middle of next week. As far as the phases

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of the moon, the first full moon is October sixth,
which is Monday, the last phase October thirteenth, new moon
October twenty one, and the first phase October twenty nine,
So the next full moon is Monday. If I got
that right, I will go to page one. There are

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three articles on page one down the right hand column,
Parties trading blame for shutdown pro tract still mate increasingly
likely likely. Democrats have no idea how long the government's
shutdown will last. Talk to the Republicans, they say, and
Republicans and they point the finger back to Democrats. Vice

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President J. D. Vance said he thinks the shutdown could
be over soon. But that's a quote, pure guess unquote.
Only one fact was undisputed. The federal government's fifteenth shutdown
since nineteen eighty one entered day two on October two.
Senators left town until October three to observe the Jewish
Yam Kupur holiday, meaning the first shutdown since twenty nineteen

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would last one more day at a minimum, Yet a
drawn out shutdown lasting several more days became an increasingly
and increasing possibility as President Donald Trump, his Republican allies
in Congress, and Democrats showed no sign of budgeting amid
their impasse. The sticking point remains changes to health care policy,

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which Democrats have demanded be part of legislation to fund
the government. They want to reverse Medicaid cuts and extend
Obamacare premium subsidies that will expire at the end of
the year, raising health insurance prices for millions of Americans.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Quote.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Donald Trump and Republicans shut the federal government down because
they don't want to provide healthcare to working class Americans,
said House Minority Leader Jakim Jeffries, Democrat of New York.
Republicans want to keep the government operating at existing funding levels,
but they lack a filibuster proof sixty votes in the

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Senate despite their majority. The party's leaders in Congress say
the Democrat request or non starters a shutdown will plow
on quote as long as it takes for the Democrats
to agree to fund the government unquote, said Senator Tom Tillis,
Republican of North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
So people like this has continued on page.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Eleven, so people like me can start negotiating over Affordable
Care Act subsidies and everything else.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Close the quote.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Trump and Republicans also discussed Democrats also accused Democrats of
wanting to provide healthcare for immigrants who are in the
country without documentation. Democrats called the claims a line, noting
that are undocumented demogrants aren't eligible for payments for Medicare,
Medicaid or the Affordable Care Act. Hanging over the stalemate,

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Trump's threat to fire federal workers on mess on mass
He also said he would meet with Office of Management
and Budget Director Russ Vaught to determine which quote Democrat
agencies unquote to eliminate to save money during the shutdown.
Quote I can't believe the radical left Democrats gave me

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this unprecedented opportunity unquote, Trump said October two on social media.
The president made no public appearances on the first day
of the shutdown, with the White House instead deploying vance
to address the media. As of the morning of October two,
Trump had no plans to meet again with Democratic congressional leaders.

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In a sign of the divide the White House continued
trolling Jeffreys with AI generated videos portraying the Democratic leader
in a fake mustache and sombrero. The videos also included
made up audio of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat
of New York, making derogatory comments about immigrants. Vance brushed

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off criticism from Jeffreys and other Democrats who called the
videos racist. Quote the president's joking unquote, Vance said, quote,
and we're having a good time.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Quote. All federal agencies.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
And services that officials do not deem quote essential unquote
must stop working during a shutdown. That means about seven
hundred and fifty thousand quote non essential unquote employees, ranging
from workers at national parks to financial regulators, could be
furloughed each day, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office,

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with holding about four hundred million dollars in daily compensation.
Social Security checks are still delivered during a shutdown. Medicare
and Medicaid benefits are also paid. Federal workers in essential
services continue to work but won't be paid until the
government reopens. Those agencies include the US Postal Service, banks

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and air traffic control. Federal law enforcement, including the FBI,
Drug Enforcement Administration, and prison staff remain operational. The Secret
Service and Coastguard continue their duties. All active duty military
personnels stay on the job, but nearly half of the
Department of Wars seven hundred and forty one thousand, four

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hundred seventy seven civilian employees could face furloughs. In general,
at national parks, park roads, lookouts, trails, and open air
memorials will generally remain accessible to visitors, quote according to
the Interior Department's contingency Plan. Lawmakers continue to receive paychecks

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during a shutdown under a section of the Constitution that
protects Congress's compensation. However, some members said they've requested that
their pay be withheld until the shutdown is over. Among
them are Representative Christy Hulahan, Democrat of Pennsylvania, who wrote
on acts that she did not take salary during the

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last government's shutdown and won't take one now. Representatives Chip Roy,
Republican of Texas and Representative Chris Duluze, Democrat of Pennsylvania,
posted images of letters each wrote to Catherine Spender, the
Chief Administrative Officer of the House, asking for their pay
to be withheld. Officially, federal courts remained open However, the

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Justice Department began asking them to delay pending litigation during
the shutdown by arguing that lawyers and other staffers are
mostly forbidden from working even on a voluntary basis, except
in quote, emergencies involving the safety of human life or
the protection of property. According to a filing by Assistant
Attorney General Brent Shuemate Brett Schuemate, lawyers opposing the government

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in at least two cases opposed the request. One case
involved Kilmar Abrago Garcia, the Salvadoran immigrant fighting deportation to
Eswatini formerly known as SWAT. The other case is trying
to block Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in the

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District of Columbia. US District Judge Paula Jena Cennus in
Maryland set a hearing for October twenty four to hear
arguments about either blocking Aburrigo Garcia's deportation or dismissing the case.
All right, that's the end of that article by WHI.
There are two photographs on page eleven. One shows the

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entrance to Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego has closed.
October one, the first day of the partial government shutdown,
and then the other one shows JD Vance speaking from
a podium. The caption says White House deployed Vice President
JD Vance to be its point person in the media
on October one.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
The first day of the shutdown. Now we'll go back
to page one and read the other two articles.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
The next article is in the middle JCPS loses school
grant over racial equity policies, leaders trying to address a
Louming budget deficit. There are two photographs, one in JCPS
Superintendent doctor Brian yerewould ask a question to a group
of students on the first day of class at Zachary

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Taylor Elementary on August seventh in Louisville, and the other
one shows Western Highs Joscelyn Young with the Culinary Science
Magnet program, makes banana muffins on December five, twenty twenty four,
with the help of Assistant instructor Otavia Wright for the
district leaders attending the ribbon cutting of the school's state

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of the art sports arena. Here's the article. The Trump
administration has pulled a federal Magnet school grant from Jefferson
County Public Schools after taking issue with the district's racial
equity policies, a blow that comes as JCPS leader's attempt
to address a looming budget deficit. Along with losing the grant,

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federal officials have ordered the district to change its funding formula,
a move that will greatly impact individual schools at a
time when they also face program and services cuts do
jcps's unbalanced budget. Over the summer, jcps's application for a
Magnet school assistance now this has continued on page nine.

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Program grant prompted several questions from the US Department of
Education's Office for Civil Rights related to the district's Racial
Equity Analysis Protocol RIAP, its consideration of race in determining
how much funding each school receives and its discipline policies.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
That grant.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Provides the district nine point seven million dollars over five
years to support magnets at Western High School and.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Coleridge Taylor Elementary.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
The district previously applied for the grant in twenty twenty,
but was denied in part due to its lack of
effort in reducing segregation in Magnet programs.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
At that time.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
A Curry Journal analysis found JCPS most sought after magnets
did not serve student populations reflective of the county, with black, Hispanic,
special education and low income students generally underrepresented. The US
Department of Education award at j CPS the grant in
twenty twenty four after the district made several policy changes.

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Now those changes and others that were required by the
previous federal administration could be reversed. The Office for Civil
Rights notified JCPS in late July that it had identified
multiple compliance issues. In a letter, Acting Assistant Secretary for
Civil Rights, Craig Trainer wrote he was quote deeply concerned

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that the district may be discriminating based on race unquote,
and he was especially alarmed unquote by the district's funding
formula that quote explicitly discriminates based on the racial makeup
of its schools, which is a clear violation of the
Civil Rights Act.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Closed the quote.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
The district's racial equity policy states, quote students of color
have been disadvantaged by long standing inequities in our society,
the causes of which are multifaceted and reflect historical, social,
and institutional factors. The district must take a systemic approach
to ensure that students of color have equitable learning opportunities, experiences,

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and outcomes.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Close the quote.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
The letter, which was obtained by the Courage Journal through
an open records request, how alleged JCPS is quote engaging
in unlawful racial balancing unquote by using the REPRIAP to
develop all policies that students are less safe while JCPS
quote pursues unlawful racialized ends unquote in terms of its

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discipline policies, and that its racialized funding formula is illegal.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Close the quote.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
The REAP, according to JCPS, is an instrument to be
used when school leadership is making decisions that impacts students.
The expectation is that this protocol is used for every
said decision. In turn, should the screening of an idea
or initiative unintentionally, marginalized or negatively impact the group of students,

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leadership is to adjust the idea plan, run the idea
through the REAP again, and check the inclusion uote. Doing this,
the federal government argued, quote strange credulity to assume that
such a comprehensive race focused policy mandated by the school
board and implemented by district officials is not resulting in

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discriminatory practices against students, staff, job applicants, and prospective contractors
closed the quote, the letter said. In reference to jcps's
discipline policies, the letter said, students and schools are less
safe within quote disciplinary decisions are tainted by racial considerations unquote,
adding that quote this is a non starter, closed the quote.

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The letter acknowledged JCPS is currently under a resolution agreement
with the Office of Civil Rights for its discipline policies,
which was established under the Biden administration. That resolution, however,
was based on a theory that Trump administration does not support.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
The letter read.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
In its attempt to adhere to the resolution, JCPS created
quote an incentive structure to discipline black and non black
students at different rates to avoid statistical disparities and outcomes unquote, stated,
adding quote the Trump Office for Civil Rights will not
tolerate a disease as cure unquote. The last issue identified

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in the letter, which would have the most immediate and
obvious impact on schools, was how JCPS distributes racial equity
funds to elementary schools. The district's formula calculates a school's
quote needs index unquote based on the percentages of students
who come from impoverished households, who have special education needs,

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who are learning English, and who move frequently, situations that
are considered barriers to academic achievement that require more support.
The formula then separately accounts for the school's percentage of
non white students to determine the allocation amount.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Quote.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
For example, a school with a JCPS needs index of
fifty and eighty percent students of color would receive fifty.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
I guess it's got asterisk. I don't know if that
means time.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Fifty asterisk one thousand, five hundred dollars plus eighty asterisk
one thousand, five hundred dollars equals one hundred ninety five
thousand dollars in additional equity funds. That asterisk therefore must
be a multiplication sign equivalent to three additional teachers unquote.

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According to jcps's Magnet grant application, which was quoted in
the Federal Offices letter, the multiplier of one thousand, five
hundred dollars used in that specific example is applied to
elementary schools with the Accelerated Improvement classification, as well as
those in the Choice Zone. The multiplier for other elementary

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schools is one thousand dollars. Race is not a factor
in the formerly used to allocate equity funds to middle
and high schools. Of the more than thirty million dollars
in equity funds provided to schools, about ninety percent was
spent on staff salaries in the twenty twenty four to
twenty five school year. According to a district dashboard, the

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difference in how much.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Each school receives of these funds at start.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
The dashboard shows what schools that were more white and
affluent receiving fewer dollars. For example, Bluem Elementary, where eighty
percent of its five hundred and thirty four students were
white and twenty two percent were considered economically disadvantaged, was
budgeted to receive about sixty five thousand dollars in racial
equity funds that year. Atkinson Elementary, where less than twenty

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percent of its four hundred and sixty nine students were
white and ninety three percent were considered economically disadvantage, was
budgeted to receive about six hundred and forty one thousand dollars.
Quote this is patently illegal unquote, the federal government's letter stated,
quote by distributing financial resources to schools based on the

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race of their students. The district is engaging in precisely
the kind of discrimination that the Civil Rights Act was
enacted to remedy and prevent.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Close the quote. These same issues.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Were highlighted in an unrelated complaint made in September to
the Office of Civil Rights by a Wisconsin firm representing
a white JCPS parent. In addition to issues noted in
the federal government's letter, the firm also pointed to documents
given to JCPS teachers that it alleges our racists because

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they advise teachers to use materials that reflect quote diverse
unquote cultures and identities, with diverse defined as quote any
and all cultures that are not heterosexual, male centered, white, Western,
and are Christian.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Close the quote.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Federal officials told JCPS on July nine, all right, now,
this has continued on page eleven that its Magnet School
grant would not be certified until these glaring legal and
constitutional infirmities are are rectified.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Close the quote.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
To remedy the issues, JCPS was given the following directives. First,
revise the board policy regarding the use of the REAP
to make it clear quote that discrimination based on race
unquote is a violation of the Civil Rights Act. Second
resind remove or revise internal and public facing statements that

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violate the Civil Rights Act. Third, revise the district's funding
formula and distribute quote any available but as yet to
be allocated funds to schools in a race neutral manner
that is not tied to the racial makeup of any school.
Close the quote, and fourth issue a public statement regarding
the changes, as well as an apology quote for discriminating

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based on race in the allocation of school funds. Close
the quote. JCPS waited nearly two months to respond to
the letter, According to documents provided through an open records request.
In mid September, jcps's attorney wrote, the district would make
language changes to thet's racial equity policy and revise its

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funding formula to eliminate the use of race in determining
how much funding each school receives. Additionally, he wrote, the
district quote will review the language of the REAP and
the manner in which it is used to determine whether
any change to the reap's language or practice are needed
unquote to comply with the Civil Rights Act. In reference

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to the discipline issue, JCPS defended its policies, but also
asked if the Office of Civil Rights intends to dissolve
the resolution agreement the district entered into under the previous administration. Quote,
the discipline process revision was an effort to remove subjective
elements so that discipline is objective unquote, JCPS attorney Kevin

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Brown wrote, quote, the district continues to assure that all
disciplinary actions are applied consistently to all students across the
district unquote. Brown wrote that language changes to the racial
equity policy would go before the board for approval in November,
while the funding formula changes was set for board approval

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during an October fourteenth meeting. While JCPS agreed to make
a significant make significant changes, Brown took issue with the
office's threat to not fulfill the Magnet grant. The decision
to terminate or discontinue the grant mid stream because it
is no longer in the best interests of the federal government,
Brown wrote, is arbitrary, an abuse of discretion, and not

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in accordance with the law. Among other issues, office's current
interpretation of the Civil Rights Act, Brown continued, quote departs
from and does not sufficiently explain unquote, the offices change
in position from the Office's prior interpretation and implementation of
the Act under the previous administration.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Quote.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
JCPS has complied with the terms and conditions of its
Magnet grant and it's previously agreed upon resolution agreement with
the Office for Civil Rights, and has relied on the
Office's previous guidance in establishing its policies and practices. Moreover,
the officer's proposed remedial steps include provisions that violate the

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First Amendment protection for free speech quote Brown concluded. The
day after Brown's response, trainer with the Office for Civil
Rights wrote he was quote unpersuaded by your contention that
the officer's position is contrary to law unquote, adding the
due to jcps's quote failure to implement the remedial measures

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unquote outlined in previous letters, he would not reconsider his
decision withhold the grant. Another letter reminded JCPS of its
responsibilities regarding the quote closeout unquote of the grant, which
included refunding any quote unobligated funds that have been paid
out but are not authorized to be retained unquote. In

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response to several questions about the proposed changes. JCPS spokeswoman
Carolyn Callahan directed the courag Journal to the documents provided
in the open records request. She did not answer if
leaders still plan to move forward in making changes to
the funding formula or racial equity policies given j CPS will.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Not receive the grant.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
She also did not answer if or how much JCPS
will have to pay back the federal government. When asked
for clarity on the impact of the grant's loss on
the two SI schools that were set to be set
to benefit from it for another four years, Callahan wrote, quote,
it's a complicated and ongoing issue, and we aren't able
to answer those questions right now. Close the quote. All right,

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that's the end of that lengthy second article. We'll go
back to the front page for the third and last article.
It's unlikely we'll be able to get it all in.
Humana ordered by court to pay thirty two million dollars
in fees. Louisville based health insurance company Humana must pay
thirty two point two million dollars to a California law firm.

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A federal court in Kentucky ruled in September. The ruling,
which was filed September nineteenth follows Humana paying ninety million
dollars to the federal government to sell a whistleblower lawsuit
under the False Claims Act in August twenty twenty four.
The more than thirty two million dollar payout we'll go
to Phillips and Cohen LLP out of San Francisco, who

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represented a whistle blow or Steven Scott in the case.
The whistleblower lawsuit A led to human As submitted fraudulent
bids to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for
a quote lucrative Medicare Part D prescription drug contracts from
twenty eleven to twenty seventeen, significantly overcharging the government unquote.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
The Curry Journal previously.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Reported Medicare Part D is the government's voluntary prescription drug program,
in which CMS contracts with private insurance companies to cover
prescription drug benefits for Medicare users. By law, insurance companies
must offer plans that cover a minimum required portion of
drug costs, with the government and Medicare beneficiaries covering the rest.

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According to the release, CMS then requires insurance companies to
submit bids in which they report the benefits they propose
to cover and confirm the ones that meet Part d's
minimum coverage. The cur Journal previously reported Scott, the whistleblower
who filed the lawsuit in twenty sixteen, is a former actuary.

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This is also continued on page eleven. For Humana, the
complaint alleged he discovered Humana had accurately predicted each year
the costs for its Part D quote Walmart plan unquote,
while basing its bids to the government on different assumptions
that were used for no other purposes.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
The cour Journal previously reported.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
The federal court ruling states Humana was to pay for
the lawyers by September twenty four. It's unclear if the
Humana paid by the court ruled deadline. Humana representatives did
not respond to a cur Journal question asking if the
payments had been made on time.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Well.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Fortunately, that takes care of the first three articles on
page one. Will stop for a short break and include
for the second twenty eight minute second in just a minute,
Please stay tuned for continued reading.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Your reader has been Mark Webster.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Now to continue reading further from the Curry Journal for Friday,
October three, twenty twenty five. Your readers, Mark Webster. We're
going to start with obituaries. We read only the name,
age and location. If you would like further information on
any of the obituaries, please call us during the week
at eight five nine, four, two, two, six, three nine
oh and we'll be glad to read the entire obituary

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to you. I hope I remember to repeat that number
at the end of this reading. There are six obituaries.
The first one are Eugene O'Collins, age ninety three, passed
away on September thirty, twenty twenty five. Mary Michelle Naber,

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sister of Charity of Nazareth, eighty seven, formerly Julianne, was
born in June of the nineteen thirty eight and passed
away on September twenty nine, twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
In Louisville.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Lois Anne, maiden named Strange Rothgerber, age eighty passed away
peacefully at home with her family. She was born in
March of forty five and she died. It doesn't seem
to list that date. I might be missing it, all right,

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That's the end of that. The next one is Robert
Leo Schernoff.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
He was ninety two.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
He passed away on September twenty eight, twenty twenty five.
Judy Bean, age eighty two, passed away on Tuesday, September thirty,
twenty twenty five. Then last is Patrick Maurice Payne. He
passed away on September thirty, twenty twenty five. All right,

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now we'll go back to read some additional articles the
first section. All of these articles from this point on
will be cut short. On page three, there is not
an article, but there are photographs.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
From the.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Burial of Sheriff John Aubrey, who died recently but was
buried on Thursday, October two. The first article will read
west now virus cases are higher this year. The Louisville

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Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness is urging community
members to be aware of an increase in west Now
virus infections in Jefferson County. According to a September thirty
news release, there have been nine confirmed cases of the
virus so far in twenty twenty five, with seven requiring hospitalization.
Health official set affected individuals were adults between the ages

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of forty and seventy. According to public health data, there
have been no reported deaths related to west Now virus
in Jeffson County in twenty twenty five. According to data
from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kentucky
has seen nineteen West now virus cases this year. Loisvill
health officials said the number of confirmed cases in Jefferson

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County increased from twenty twenty four, when just one case
was reported. In twenty twenty three, there were several positive
cases and two deaths, and there were three positive cases
and one death and twenty twenty two. I will cut
that off there. The next article is on page two.

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Man charge and connection to August shooting. A second man
was arrested in connection to an August twenty six, non
fatal shooting that occurred near a high school soccer game.
According to a news release from Louisville Metro Police, Troy
Martin Junior, aged twenty, which charged with two counts of
unlawful transaction with a minor complicity to assault in five

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counts of complicity to want an endangerment. Spokesperson Aaron Ellis
said Martin is being held at Louisville Metro Department of Corrections.
A seventeen year old boy was also charged in connection
to the shooting. After He was arrested September two and
also faces charges of complicity to assault and complicity to

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want an engagement. The shooting occurred near the fifteen hundred
block of Conger Street around eight ten pm August twenty sixth.
When officers arrived, they found a man who had been
shot once in the knee. He was taken to uf
L Hospital in unknown condition. At the time of the shooting,
Jay Graham Brown School in DuPont Manual High School were

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playing a soccer match at Central High School. Players and
fans had to shelter in place, but no one was injured,
official said administration. Traders from Justin County Public Schools told
Brown and Manual parents that the shooting was at a
nearby store and unrelated to the game at JCPS. Attendees

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were allowed to leave after LMPD confirmed the area was secure.
Administrator said. Martin is scheduled to appear in court October two.
Then the other article on page two. Fourth person charged
in connection to Shelby County homicide. A fourth man was
charged in connection to an August nineteen homicide in Shelby County.
According to a news release from the Shelby County Sheriff's Office.

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Levi Jones, twenty four, Louisville, was arrested September thirty in
Nashville and was charged with murder. Officials said Jeremiah James
twenty three of Louisville, Madison Greenwell, twenty one at Shelbyville,
and Rodney Isgrig Junior twenty one of Jeffersonville, Indiana as
are also facing murder charges.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
In connection to the case.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Jones and James are awaiting extradition from Tennessee to Kentucky.
Officials said, Greenwell and Isgrig are currently being held at
the Shelby County Detention cend. The Shelby County Sheriff's Office
began investigating August twenty after finding a man later identified
as Timothy Ettington, aged fifty eight, dead in his Spring
Oaks estate home. Greenwell is next expected His next scheduled

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to appear in court October nine for a preliminary hearing.
Is Gregg's preliminary hearing his schedule for October sixteenth. It
was unclear when James and Jones will appear in court.
On page three, no injuries reported from blast at Rubbertown plant.
No injuries have been reported. October one, after firefighters responded

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to an explosion at Carbide Industries in Rubbertown. Pleasure Ridge
Park Fire Protection District Chief Jason.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Meiman said.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
PRP officials received a report of an explosion at eleven
twenty eight m Mymon said during a news conference, cruise
observed of heavy smoke roughly two minutes later. First responders
worked to extinguish small exterior and interior fires, both of
which remained under investigation. In March twenty one, twenty eleven,

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exposed in the car Hide Carbide Industries killed two workers
and injured two others. According to a case study from
the incident, the explosion occurred when an electric arc furnace
quote over pressured unquote and emitted power, powdered debris, hot gases,
and molten calcium carbide. One last article on page three,

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what's next for four hundred acres along River Road? Again
this will be cut short. City governments seeking feedback on
future uses. New uses could be coming to public land
along River Road to the east of downtown Louisville. Metro
government has been seeking stakeholder and public feedback on the
possible future uses of nearly four hundred acres it owns

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in the Ohio River Floodplain. These properties along River Road,
which stretch from the Big Four Bridge to Indian Hills,
include Champions, Twin Thurman, Hutchins, Carry, Galbert Cox, Eva, Banmon,
and Caperdon Swamp Parks, among other plots of land. The
city's Office of Planning is spearheading the development of the

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River Road Land Use Vision plan. City officials cited two
reasons behind the project, the massive flooding earlier this year
and a twenty twenty three economic development strategic plan called
quote growing Losoll Together unquote that identified the stretch of
River Road as an opportunity for better connection to Lowell's

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waterfront downtown. I will cut that off there. On page four.
White House memo sets terms for US colleges. President Donald
Trump's administration has asked US colleges to sign a deal
on some sweeping terms ranging from foreign enrollment and diversity

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to ideological values of students staff to get preferential access
to federal funds. According to a ten point memo sent
October one. The memos shared with Reuters by White House
official demands that schools cap international undergrad enrollment at fifteen
percent banned the use of race or sex in hiring

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and admissions, freeze tuition for five years, require that applicants
take the SAT or a similar test, and quell grade inflation.
Trump is threatened to cut federal funding for universities over
a range of issues, such as pro Palestinian protests against
US ally Israel's war in the Middle East, transgender policies,

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climate initiatives, and diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Rights applicants
have raised free speech and academic freedom concerns over actions
that they say are aimed that signing at aligning universities
with Trump's political agenda, I'll cut that off there. Next
article Kentucky National Parks sites face limited services during federal shutdown.

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There's a picture of stalactite formation in Mammoth Cave. Here's
the article. National Park Service sites in Kentucky appear to
be operating without several services normally offered to visitors after
a federal government shutdown began October one, while roadways and
trails accessible twenty four hours a day are allowed to

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remain open.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
According to a National Park.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Service Contingency Plan PUNTIT published by the Department of Interior
in September.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Families and areas locked or secured during non business hours
are to be closed for the duration of the shutdown.
Seven sites managed by National Park Services are in Kentucky,
including Mammoth Cave National Park in Edmonson, Hart and Barron Counties.
The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace in Hodgenville, a National Historical Park,

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is also managed by the National Park Service. When asked
how Mammoth Cave would be specifically impacted by the government shutdown,
a park spokesperson deferred comment to the National Park Service's
main press office. In a statement, a National Park Service
spokesperson said the agency quote will continue to keep parks
as accessible as possible during the lapse in appropriations unquote.

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Mammoth Cave National Park is open twenty four hours a day,
though access to cave, tours and the visitors center are
limited according to the public. According to the park's website,
camping and designated campgrounds or backcountry comp sites is only possible.

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With a valid reservation or permit.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
The Mammoth Cave system is the largest known cave system
in the world, according to the National Park SERVI I'll
cut that off there. The next article is a police
too dead in an attack on synagogue in England. Two
people were killed and three were injured in England the

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morning of October two, after police said a man reportedly
drove a vehicle at pedestrians outside a Jewish synagogue and
at least one person was stabbed. The attack happened at
about nine thirty am local time. Authority said a person
believed to be the attacker was shot by police when

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they responded to the attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew
Congregation Synagogue in Crumsll, North Manchester. According to the Greater
Manchester Police, the suspect the attacker was later confirmed to
be dead. In addition to the two victims killed, three
people are in quote serious condition.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Quote. Police said the attack comes.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
As Jewish people observed the holiday of Yam Copoor, the
Holy stay of the Jewish faith, which began the evening
of October one and ended the evening of October two.
Authority said, quote A large number unquote of people were
worshiping at the synagogue at the time of the attack.
They have since been evacuated, police said. Manchester Police said

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on social media that they received a report from a
witness who saw quote a car being driven toward members
of the public, and one man had been stabbed. UOTE
paramedics treated people on the scene for injuries from both
the vehicle and stabbing. Police said the witness's immediate report

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to law enforcement allowed police to prevent the suspect from
entering the synagogue. Police said officials across the United Kingdom
expressed outrage and sorrow. There were five hundred and twenty
one reports of anti Semitism incidents in Britain in the

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first half of twenty five. According to the Community Security Trust,
a London based Jewish security organization, CST defines an anti
Semitic as incident as any act aimed at Jewish people, organizations,
or property where there is evidence the victim, organization, or
property was targeted because they were or were believed to

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be Jewish. And that's the end of that article. We'll
continue going on. We're now up to page.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Six. Federal workers face more layoffs.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Just hours after the federal government entered a partial shutdown.
Impact could be seen across the nation's capital. Furloughed federal
workers left office buildings with boxes full of personal belongings.
Tourists were met by locked doors at popular museums and
scrambled to make new plans. A cancer research conference ended
a day early, leaving its attendees looking for something to do.

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Bars and restaurants offered quote shut down happy hour unquote
specials and filled up with federal employees musing about the furloughs,
including when they think they'll return to work and what
they'll do in the meantime. It's been a tough year
to be a federal worker.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
I'll cut the article off fair.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
The article below it Israeli navy intercepts Godza aid flotilla.
More than four hundred activists, including Thunberg, expected to be deported,
and there's a photograph of demonstrators.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Here's the article.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Israel faced international condemnation and protests on October two after
its forces intercepted around forty boats carrying AID and more
than four hundred foreign activists, including Swedish campaigner Greta Unburg
to Gaza. Cameras broadcasting live feeds from the boats verified

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by Reuters showed armed Israeli soldiers sporting helmets and night
vision goggles boarding the ships, while passengers huddled together in
life desks with their heads up. A video from the
Israeli Foreign Ministry shows Sweden's Thunberg, the most prominent of
the flotilla's passengers, sitting on a deck surrounded by soldiers. Thunburg,

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twenty two, best known for her environmental protests, had pre
recorded a video that was released on her behalf after
her ship was boarded.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
Quote.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
If you're watching this video, I've been abducted and taken
against my will by Israeli forces. Our humanitarian mission was
nonviolent and abiding by international law unquote, she said. Those
vessels intercepted and those on board were expected to be
taken initially to the Israeli port of Ashtad, where one

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ship was seen arriving by Reuter's witness the Global Samoud Flotilla,
the organizer of the voyager, said an estimated four hundred
and forty three volunteers had been detained, some of them
transferred to one large cargo vessel before being taken ashore.

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Turkish President Tajip Urdigon on October two criticized Israeli aggression,
saying it showed Israel's government has no intention of letting
hopes for peace grow.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
I think I'll stop the article there.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
I guess at the end, it says Hamas expresses support.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
For the activists.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
I think I'll give up on pay on the first
section and go to the second section. There's an article
on the Brown Theater in the third section that I
hope I have time to read, but I go through
the sports relatively quickly. The first headline, U of LUK
may soon add jersey patches. Partnerships could earn millions sponsorship

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patches could be added to Louisville and Kentucky uniforms as
early as next fall. This appears to be basketball, but
it may be football. Yahoo Sports Ross Dellinger reported last
week the Division I Commission commissioners met in Chicago and
discussed passing legislation allowing schools to put sponsors pat patches

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on players jerseys, something professional sports leagues have done for years.
The Democrat Back Safe Act, which Senators Maria Cantwell, Corey Booker,
and Richard Blumenthal introduced in September, states that quote no
athletic association or conference shall prohibit an institution or conference
from obtaining sponsorship for a single jersey or uniform patch

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for any sport.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Unquote.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Twenty seven of the thirty NBA teams had an official
jersey patch.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Partner at start of last seas season.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
In February, data and analytics company Global Data estimated that
those partnerships would generate two hundred and eighty five point
eight million dollars across the league, with teams averaging ten
point six million dollars per season. Twenty three MLB teams
generated two hundred and four million dollars totals from Jersey
patches in twenty twenty four. Athletic departments could benefit greatly

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from these deals, whether they add four million dollars or
ten million dollars to the positive side of the ledger.
Three hundred and nineteen schools opted into revenue sharing this offseason,
six of which are in Kentucky. The cap for twenty
twenty five twenty six is twenty point five million dollars
per institution and will increase by four percent annually.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
I'll cut that off there.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
Next article, Arkansas has given Patrino one chance too many.
This is a column by Cel Brown. I won't read this,
but it's obvious that he opposes hiring coach Patrino as
an interim coach or maybe a future permanent coach at Arkansas.
He says, basically, Petrino has had enough chances and doesn't
deserve another shot at being an NCAA Division One head coach.

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There's an article headline wide open race, Stax's Harbin among
top candidates for Kentucky Kentucky Mister Football. The race for
Kentucky's twenty twenty five Mister Football award is as muddled
now as it was in the preseason. With five weeks
remaining in the regular season, several ways of determining a

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Mister Football front runner don't seem to apply in twenty
twenty five. The top ranked recruit is Paducah Togum's Jarvis
Strickland University of Louisville commit. The best player on the
best team is Trinity's I guess their entire team. The

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same can be said of Christian Academy's bevy of stars.
The big stat guys are from Bowling Green wide receiver
Trevy Barber Cooper quarterback Cam O'Hara. The Kentucky Football Coaches
Association will announce the Mister Football winner in December. I'll

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go on to the page two in the sports section.
There's an article with soccer pairings for district and regional finals.
I won't read U OFL plays Virginia tomorrow. UL headline.
UL looks to add win streak versus Virginia. During the
last two matchups, Virginia's football team was in a position

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to beat Lobelle, but the Cardinals rallied in both contests
to earn victories as part of a three game winning
streak over the Cavaliers. L will try to win outright
against Virginia at three point thirty pm Saturday at Ellenin's
d Ellenin Stadium. They have a college football picks. All

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eight reviewers pick Louisville over Virginia. All eight reviewers picked
Georgia over Kentucky, five of the eight pick Western over Delaware,
seven of the eight picked Miami over Florida State, and
all eight pick Alabama over Vanderbilt. I'll stop right there.

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There's an article. UK enters game at Georgia on SEC
Losing Street. The deck is stacked against Kentucky football this week.
The Wildcats have lost their last seven SEC games dating
back to last season. Georgia UK's opponent Saturday hasn't dropped
back to back league contest since twenty sixteen. The Bulldogs

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also saw their thirty three game home winning streak end
in a twenty four to twenty one lost to Alabama
last week. UGA hasn't had consecutive home defeats since again
twenty sixteen, which was Kirby Smart's first season as coach.
Most pertinently, Kentucky has lost fifteen games in a row

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to Georgia. Mark stoops record versus Georgia as Kentucky's coach,
oh to twelve. Kentucky's last win over Georgia was in
two thousand and nine. UGA owns a decisive edge sixty
four to twelve to two in over an all time series.
Can the Wildcats stunned the bull Dogs and Saturday's conference

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clash at Sandford Stadium. I'll quit there, but I'll answer
the own question.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
I think the answer is no. That's all I'm gonna
do with the sports section.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
I wanted to get over to the third section and
read this article on the Brown Theater, which is located
on Broadway in Louisville. It has several photographs. One is interesting.
It shows the Brown Theater on opening night October five,

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nineteen twenty five, which will be one hundred years from
this coming Sunday. Here's the article celebrating one hundred years
a look back at Louisville's iconic Brown Theater. A full
century before the word had heard of wordle, the crossword
puzzle and craze was sweeping the country, and Puzzles of

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nineteen twenty five, a popular musical, was getting ready for
the opening night of Louisville's dazzling new fourteen hundred seat
Brown Theater at three fifteen West Broadway on October five,
nineteen twenty five.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
The same year, the Grand Ole Opry made its first broadcast.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
F Cox Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, and Mount Rushmore
was dedicated to South Dakota. The Magnificent Belt the Magnificent
Velvet curtain was raised for the first time at Louisville's
opulent theater in the heart of the bustling city center.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
On that night.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
Elsie Janis, a famous American actress of her time, stepped
into the spotlight and opened the theater with quote Puzzles
of nineteen twenty five, unquote, a musical review she'd written
and directed for Broadway. Quote in fact, as a theater opener,
Elsie is more useful than the average can opener, unquote,

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equipped a review in the Curry Journal. The following day,
highlighting the Brown Theatre's debut. One hundred years later, the
grand name of the local arts community remained Louisville's Oldis
Operating Theater. On October five, Lousvell's ODIs Operating Theater celebrates
its one hundredth anniversary, and in doing so, spotlights in

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important role in shaping Louisville's performing arts scene legacy and.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Its next chapter.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, The Brown
Theatre three fifteen West Broadway flourished as a play house
through the latter half of the nineteen twenties, became a
movie theater in nineteen thirty, and transitioned back to a
live performance venue again in the nineteen sixties, all while
surviving floods, fires, and financial collapse. Built by wealthy Lovell

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businessman Jay Graham Brown, owner of the adjacent Brown Hotel,
three thirty five West Broadway, the theater was modeled after
New York's famous Music Box Theater, with an ornate lobby
fan shaped seating and a forty foot by forty foot stage.
Loisvill's premier theater attracted the discontinued on page two attracted

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the Krim de La Krim of entertainment, including Betty Davis,
Helen Hayes, tululabankad Myrna, Lloyd Donamichi, Henry Fonda, Edward G. Robinson,
Carol Shanning, Victor Borgia, and Gloria Swanson. Louisville was really
on the theatre circuit because of the Louisville Nashville Railroad, quote,
Kim Baker, president and CEO of Kentucky Performing Arts, told

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the Courage Journal quote, Louisville was one of the cities
to go to for theatre unquote. In its early years,
the lavishly appointed Brown Theater hosted dramatic productions and musical evenings,
establishing itself as a true playhouse. When the Depression hit
the country and turing dried up, the Brown Theater was

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transformed into a movie theater, where films were shown for
the next thirty years. Then in the nineteen sixties, the
Brown Theater returned to its original purpose, staging live entertainment.
In nineteen sixty two, the theatre underwent major renovation and
again welcome Broadway productions. Ten years later, the venue was

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purchased by the Louisville Board of Education and was renamed
the McCauley Theater.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
Quote. When Brown Theater was originally.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
Built, it incorporated furnishings from an older theater relocated at
Walnut Street now Muhammad Ali Boulevard, named McCauley's Theater, said
Will Richards, vice president of Facilities and Products Kentucky Performance Arts.
We found a McCauley's Theater playbill from March twenty, eighteen
seventy six that lists actor Edwin Booth as performing on

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stage unquote. Booth was the older brother of John Wilkes Booth,
who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln eleven years earlier at the
Ford Theater in Washington, d C. In eighteen sixty five.
By nineteen ninety eight, the iconic theater had been acquired
by the Fund for the Arts, which worked to bring
the iconic theater back to its original grandeur, but with

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a modern twist. The Fund for the Arts financed the
remaining four point two median restoration four point two million
dollar restoration, which includes the Fraser Lobby, upgraded sound and lighting,
and expanded the orchestra pit, now operated by Kentucky Performing Arts,
which also operates the Kentucky Center five oh one West

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Main Street and Old Foresters, Paristown Hall seven and twenty
four Brent Street seven twenty four Brent Street. The beautifully
restored Brown Theater remains a vital part of Louisville's cultural landscape,
hosting everything from classic plays to modern concerts from violinists
Itsac Peerlman, dancer and actor Mikhaal Berishnikoff and Cellis Yogo

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Ma to blues great b B King, Kentucky's own John Prime,
and rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers. World class
performances continued to flow through the ground, while the theater
continues to anchor a stretch of Broadway once known as
Louisville's Theater Row. Brown Theater performances during the month of
October are in line with a typically eclectic mix of entertainment,

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including the Louisville Ballets, Dracula held October ten and eleven.
AJ Croche presents Quochy plays Krochi on October fifteenth, That's
the Son of Jim Crochy, then Disney mona live to
film concert in October seventeenth, The University of Louisville twenty

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twenty five Steps Show on October twenty four, and Straight
No Chaser Holiday road tour on October twenty five. Quote
The Brown Theater has served as an art space for
a century, creating a community gathering space for generations. Well,
I went over time to complete the article. This concludes

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excerpt from the Curry Journal for Friday, October three, twenty
twenty five. Your reader's Benmark Webster. Please stay tuned for
continuing programming on radio. I have a good Friday, a
good weekend, and a good week