12.8.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the reading of the Courier Journal for Monday,
December eighth, two thousand, twenty five, which is brought to
our Louisville 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 to day is

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Rick Christmin. We will start with the five day forecast
brought to you by w h A S. To day,
the high will be thirty four. It will be mostly
sunny and colder, with a low of twenty seven. Mainly
clear and cold. Tuesday a high of forty seven, not
as cold in a low of forty one. Wednesday a

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high of fifty one, windy and a low of thirty one.
Thursday a high of forty one, a bit of afternoon
snow and a low of thirty one. Friday a high
of thirty five, cloudy and cold and a low of seventeen,
and Saturday a high of thirty three, cold in a

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bit of morning snow and a low of twenty five.
For our almanac, the normal high is fifty that was
set in nineteen thirty four. The record high of seventy
three was set in two thousand and one. The record

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low of twelve was set in eighteen ninety five. For precipitation,
Friday was zero month to date point five inches, normal
to date point sixty six inches, year to date fifty
two point eight inches, and normal to date forty four
point eight seven inches. Our pollen count is good for

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both Sunday and today. The moon will the sun rise
at seven forty seven am and it will set at
five twenty three The moon will rise at nine thirty
seven pm and set at eleven twenty five am. And

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on Tuesday, the sun will rise at seven forty eight
and set at five twenty three pm. The moon will
rise at ten forty six pm and set at eleven
thirty nine am. The last moon was December eleven, the

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new moon December nineteenth, first moon December twenty seven, and
last and full moon January three. Board to seek stay
on JCPS plan proposal will close and consolidate schools. Lillian.

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This is written by Lillian metz Meyer of the Louisville
Courier Journal USA Today. Network leaders from the Jefferson County
Board of Education will officially ask to pause consideration of
a proposed school closure plan at the December nine meeting,
the board said in a December five news release sent

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by the Jefferson County Public Schools spokesperson Carolyn Callahan. The
announcement comes one day after JCPS Superintendent Brian Yearwood said
he would quote rethink plans of the closure and consolidation
plan the district proposed November twenty to save money amidst
a massive budget deficit. JCPS hosted three community input sessions

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about the proposed closure plan, which will close King and
Zachary Taylor Elementary Schools and Liberty High School while consolidating
other schools. Parents, teachers, and students from King Elementary marched
nearly a mile in the snow to attend and speak

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at the December three input session, some holding signs supporting King.
We have heard the voices of our community, the concern, apprehension,
and passionate engagement regarding the proposed changes to our JCPS schools,
Jefferson County Board of Education Chairman Corey Shall said in

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a statement, quote Your feedback delivered through community forms, emails,
and phone calls have been heard loud and clear. We
recognize that our schools are the heart of our communities
and any change must be approached with the utmost care, transparency,
and focused on the best interests of our students. The

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board will introduce a motion to pause the plan at
the December nine meeting and request that Year would and
his team dedicate additional time and resources to provide a
more thorough and detailed justification for the recommendation, including specific academic, fiscal,
and logistical benefits for each proposed change. The board also

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asked for parents and other stakeholders to continue bringing their
feedback during the pause. Quote. Your passion is essential and
your perspectives are invaluable to this deliberative process, Skull said.
Shall said, we are committed to an open, honest, and
thoughtful review and we look forward to working with the

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superintendent's teams and the entire community to reach a decision
that secures a bright future for all our children. The
district recently chose to withdraw a controversial plan to shift
school start times ahead of the twenty six to twenty
seventh school year, also originally set to be voted on

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during the December nine board meeting, which would have moved
start times twenty minutes earlier and had been the fourth
bel schedule change in five years. One board member, Gale Strange,
said she found out about the proposal from the news.
According to previous reporting by The Courier Journal, Yearwood said

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it was quote clear that more analysis and deeper engagement
were necessary before moving forward. When first proposed, Callahan said
school start times were a major topic. Yearwood heard about
from principles and staff. Housing programs could lose millions in funding.

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New HUNT policy calls for dramatic reductions and this is
written by Keeley Doll of the Louisville Courier Journal USA
Today Network. Louisville's housing programs for the homeless are in
danger as Trump administration makes deep cuts to grants for
permanent supported housing and rapid rehousing. In November, the Department

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of Housing and Urban Development released its twenty twenty six
Notice of funding Opportunity, months late and drastically different from
the funding application advocacy groups have worked with for years.
New policy for the programs calls for a dramatic reduction
and funding for permanent supportive housing and far smaller guarantees

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of returning funds. Permanent supportive housing is a housing first
model that provides people with long term living accommodations in
conjunction with services like case management, recovery programs, life skills,
and more. Unlike transitional housing, there is no time limit
for residents in permanent housing permanent supportive housing, as long

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as they keep the terms of their lease. Each grant cycle,
HUDD distributes funds to continuum care programs throughout the country,
which in turn distribute those grants to local programs that
work to help families, veterans, and the chronically homeless stable housing.
In twenty twenty four, Louisville received twenty three million in

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funds through its Continuum of Care program, seventeen million of
which went into permanent housing programs. According to the Coalition
for the Homeless, about eighty seven percent of all Continuum
of Care funds distributed by HUD in the latest cycle
went to permanent housing. According to reporting from Politico Now,

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HUD has placed a thirty percent cap on grants going
to permanent supportive housing and rapid rehousing programs, shifting focus
to transitional housing and supportive services in line with the
administration's move away from housing first initiatives, which focus on
placing people in stable housing before connecting them with services.

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The policy shift has been a key part of the
Trump administration's plan to deal with increasing homelessness and housing
programs within the nation. In July, President Donald Trump signed
an executive order that rejected the long standing housing first approach,
calling for cities and organizations to prioritize in enforcing camping

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bands and providing substance abuse treatment for people experiencing homelessness.
The shift has caused concern among Louisville advocacy groups as
well as Kentucky officials, with leaders saying that cuts could
create major funding gaps for programs that are already struggling.
Catherine mcgreeney, communications director for the Coalition for the Homeless,

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said permit housing programs are the most effective ways to
give people into stable housing and are already underfunded. Quote,
we know how to end homelessness in Louisville. Mcgreey said,
the work we have been doing is so effective and
we have the outcomes to prove it. There is a
real lack of understanding about these programs, but hut has

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argued that housing first is a failed method and said
the new funding policies will help promote self sufficiency and
accountability among homelessness programs. In a press release, HUD said
Housing First encourages dependence on endless government handouts without addressing
root causes, while funding for transitional housing has been largely neglected. Quote.

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We are stopping the Biden area slush fund that fueled
the homelessness crisis, shut out faith based providers simply because
of their values, and incentivize never ending government dependency. HUD's
secretary stock Scott Turner said in the release, these long
overdue reforms will promote independence and ensure we are supporting

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means tested approaches to carry out the president's mandate connect
Americans with the help they need and make our cities
and towns beautiful and safe. US Representative Morgan mcgarre we
called the plan quote dangerous and short sighted, echoing concerns
that the program could leave nearly one thousand Louvillians vulnerable

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to losing housing. We're seeing absolutely freezing temperatures in Kentucky
right now, and as anerving that as a country, we
would turn a blind eye to our neighbors in need,
McGarvey said in a statement. We're talking about families with children,
survivors of domestic violence, and our nation's veterans getting turned

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away from a place to sleep at night and escape
the cold because this administration's callous decision to make more
Americans homeless. The state has also pushed back against Hudd's policies,
with Governor Andy Basheer joining nineteen other states and the
District of Columbia in a lawsuit challenging HUD's plan. In

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a press release, Basher's office said the commonwealth could lose
more than fifteen million in federal fund funding through the
new policies. These illegal and cruel policies changes will cause
more people like veterans and families to go homeless and
make our communities less safe with more people forced to

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live on the streets. Basher said in the release quote,
we should be helping people get back on their feet
through a safe place to call home, not barring them
from any chance of success, not from bearing them from
any chance of success. These policy changes are wrong and dangerous,

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and they will set our commonwealth and country back. The
funding cap on permanent housing programs isn't Louisville's only concern.
There's also a lot less funding guaranteed for programs that
have been proven to help end homelessness. In the previous
grant cycle, HUT guaranteed funding for ninety percent of programs

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as long as they had positive outcomes and met standards.
Now only thirty percent of programs will be guaranteed. With
so much funding diverted from permanent housing programs into transitional housing,
there is a concern for those who are living in
or on wait lists for permanent supportive housing or rapid rehousing.

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Mcgreey said the Coalition for the Homeless has already stopped
referring clients to permanent supportive housing placements, unwilling to place
someone only to have the rug pulled out from under
them months later. Although mcgreeney said organizations are doing all
they can to ensure people will be able to stay housed,

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the funding cap will put even more pressure on a
system that is already overwhelmed. Quote last year in Louisville,
there were sixteen hundred people who were moved into housing,
but three thy three hundred people entered homeless ness. M
greenee said, so it will put a significant strain on

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a system that already doesn't have enough options for people
experiencing homelessness. The funding notice also coming right upon the deadline,
with applications due to January fourteen. Usually, mcgreey said, programs
receive information from HUT in the late summer, which allows
for the process to go through before grants expire. With

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a January deadline, programs likely won't receive funding until May
or June of twenty twenty six, if they receive it
at all. Quote, it introduces instability that local organizations and
people house through those organizations have not had to face,
mcgreey said, quote, So all of the dozens of organizations

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who are currently providing permanent housing to people, some of
those organizations have grants that expire before we know who
receives the money. Some organizations are in this kind of
waiting zone where they won't know how to financially plan
for the next several months. Mcgreeney acknowledged that changes will

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direct more grant funding to transitional housing and outreach programs,
which have struggled to obtain funding in the past. Transitional
housing can still do a lot of really positive things,
but it's not an effective intervention for people who need
long term assistance to say stay housed. The greenee said.

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The issue is that the issue is that there are
all these people in Louisville. Nineteen hundred people in Louisville
right now are being served through permanent housing programs, with
a ninety eight percent success rate of staying housed. Mc
greenie said that Continua of Care will put together the
best possible application, but options are limited and funding is uncertain.

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One of the hardest things about this is that we
know that programs that we're running are really effective, because
we have data that shows that they're effective, and yet
there already isn't enough funding for them. Mcgreeney said, so
will be creative and do our best. The new policies

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do leave a path for organizations to change from permanent
housing to transitional housing, and grant funding is outlined for
programs willing and able to make the change. Tamra Reef,
Senior director of Housing Services for Volunteers of America its States,
said the va is uniquely positioned to work within new

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funding requirements because of the wide variety of employment and
recovery services it offers. For programs that don't already have
those services in place, the shift could be much more difficult.
Quote the goal and the mission right now and VOA
is and the city as a whole is is figuring

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out the projects we currently have and the funding we
currently have reef said quote, and how we can make
them successfully transition into what the new language is asking
us to do with federal funding and certain for months
programs that are looking for other ways to make ends meet,
including relying on private donors and the Louisville community. This

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is a pretty big pivot for us, and this is
a pretty domestic, dramatic change that will take us a
while to adjust. To companies sue to get tariffs refunded,
Trump has other legal ways to pursue duties. This is
written by Rachel Barber of USA. Today, as a Supreme

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Court weighs a challenge to President Donald Trump's tariffs, American
business owners are waiting to see at what will happen
to the money they spent importing goods and whether they
can afore offer their customers a reprieve from raised prices.
Costco recently filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to

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secure a quote complete refund should the Supreme Court strike
down tariffs imposed under the nineteen seventy seven International Emergency
Economic Powers Act. In a separate case, the Court heard
in November, it's the latest lawsuit from retailers hoping to
get their money back from the administration. Court records show

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others include Bumbobee Foods, SCR, Lucida, Kawazi Motors, Revlon, and
Yokohama Tire. It remains unclear how US Customs and Border
Protection will handle a large scale refund process, prompting some

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committees to file lawsuits to preserve their refunded rights ahead
of the ruling. In case the Supreme Court limits refunds
to businesses that have already taken legal action, the legal
action comes at a cost beyond legal fees. Suing a
presidential administration has the potential to upset customers and taint

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a relationship with the federal government. According to Drew DeLong,
head of Corporate Statecraft at Kearney Foresight, quote, there's so
much uncertainty right now that the calculation comes becomes it
is filing a suit worth the incremental certainty that if
this action is taken, we are in a better position.

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Long said, It's not a battle every company can take on.
If you are a business that does not have the
infrastructure in place to navigate this environment proactively. In terms
of government engagement, you're at less of a competitive advantage
than those that do, DeLong said, quote. Just as there

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are discussions of a K shaped economy right now in
terms of strength of consumer on the upside and downside,
I think we're seeing a very similar trend emerged with
those who have infrastructure to navigate the environment looming layoffs.
Meclon Cropsorian, a spirits maker and co founder of Green

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Bar Distillery in Los Angeles, said at the beginning of
twenty twenty five, his company was paying twenty five percent tariffs.
At one point during the year, they jumped to one
hundred and seventy percent, and now our back down to
fifty five percent, which is, you know, a lot better
than one hundred and seventy but is still quite a
bit of money for US, covorci Un said. He said

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his team is still working up the total amount tariffs
will cost a company for the US year, but he
estimated they will pay between seventy five thousand and one
hundred and twenty five thousand, up from the two nenty
five thousand to fifty thousand he said they were paying before.
Covorsdien said that distillery sources every fresh ingredient it can

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from nearby farms, but there are some it can't realistically
from producers in the United States, including Juniper Berry's, cinnamon, cloth, nutmeg,
and coffee. He said, we're preparing to lay off both
full time and part time workers as a cost saving measure,
in part because he doesn't believe customers can absorb any

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price increases in the current economic climate. The possibility of
layoffs is an open conversation among his fifteen persons staff.
Our staff initially thought it's the governments where we import
products from that pay the tariffs. We had to say, no, no, no,

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here's the bill. Caporcian said. Our entire team went through
a number of exercises to find any cost savings anywhere. Ultimately,
we couldn't find enough forced to raise prices. Thompson Traders
president Clifford Thompson said tariffs have led the Greensboro, North Carolina,

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family business, which sells sinks, tubs, and custom range hoods,
to accrue debt and raise prices. In Thompson's case, he said,
the challenge isn't sourcing materials, it's sourcing the craftsmanship. He
said the company's hand crafted products can't be made in
the United States and still hold a reasonable price. He

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said his company doesn't have the financial capacity to train
employees to do the same work. Even if it did,
he estimated the process would take about three years. In
previous he said the amount the company paid in tariffs
quote wasn't something we pay a lot of attention to. Now,
he said, the company is on track to pay more

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than one million dollars in two thousand twenty five. Quote.
We're going from a year that was probably going to
be profitable to a year where we're going to break
even at best. Thompson said, quote. I wouldn't say it's
fairly sustainable. It's I wouldn't say it's fully sustainable. We'll
figure it out. Thankfully. We've been in business for a while,

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and I think it's pretty detrimental to younger companies. Uncertainty
will remain. Covorcian and Thompson's companies are two of hundreds
that have joined We Pay the Tariffs in coalition backed
by the Trade Partnership and other pro trade groups. The
coalition filed an Ameka's brief with the Supreme Court asking

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justices to uphold lower court rulings and deem the tariffs
unlawful Kavorspien said he hopes the litigation ends with the
Supreme Court striking down the tariffs. In his fantasy scenario,
his company gets a refund. If it does, he said
he'd love to bring back some of the workers the

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company plans to lay off, but that his company will
spend very cautiously because we don't know what's going to
come around the corner. Thompson said if his company was
given a refund, it would use it to pay down
the debt it incurred to pay the tariffs, but that
but that it too would be thank likely bank for

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a little while just to see where things went. Their
caution isn't unreasonable, according to DeLong. He said people should
not assume a Supreme Court ruling will mark the end
of tariffs. The Trump administration has several options to implement
similar tariffs in other ways. I don't think there is

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any voice in this administration I'm aware of that. We'll
say tariffs are not here to stay. DeLong said, We've
been crystal clear that this is a cornerstone, and I
don't suspect that them losing ie PA is going to
deter the intent of what they develop. LMPD releases footage

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of fatal shooting and this is written by Monroe Crombie
of the Louisville Courier Journal USA Today Network. The Louisville
Metro Police Department on December five released body worn camera
footage showing the fatal police shooting of an eighteen year
old man, William Jenkins. In the footage, Officer Patrick Norton

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is seen exiting his cruiser in the one hundred block
of West Southland Boulevard in Southland, shining a high powered
flashlight on Jenkins as he walks along the sidewalk. Norton
instructs him to stop and speak with officers right here.
Come talk with us for a second. Norton said police

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began searching the area around ten pm on November twenty
two for an overweight black man with a short afro.
The description provided by a delivery driver who reported that
a man had pulled a gun and demanded eighty five
dollars worth a pizza from her at a nearby address.
When Jenkins asks what Norton wants, the officer warns him

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not to ignore his commands. We'll tell you in a second.
Norton replies, quit walking away, get your hands out of
your pockets. You take off running. You'll lose that race,
you know that. Moments later, as Norton moves closer, Jenkins
begins to run. Norton purs saying he's reaching for pushing

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Jenkins to the ground. A single pop is heard on
Norton's body camera. Police officials said at a December five
news conference that the shall sound was Jenkins firing a handgun,
and officers later found a shell casing. Norton then fires
nine shots, according to footage. At nearly the exact moment,

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Officer Richard Waller arrives, stepping out of his cruiser as
Jenkins starts to run from Norton. He's reaching for a gun.
Drop that expletive gun, Waller shouts, before firing his weapon
shortly after Norton opens fire. Police have said have not
said how many times Jenkins was hit, and said they

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are awaiting autopsy results. This concludes readings from the first
sections of The Courier Journal for Monday, December eight, twenty
twenty five. Stay tuned for more news to follow immediately.
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from the Courier Journal for Monday, December eighth, twenty twenty five.
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will continue reading the article from section one on LMPD
releases footage of Fitful shooting. Both officers then retreat behind

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Waller's cruiser. A little more than a minute later, Norton,
Waller and several other officers moved towards Jenkins, who is
lying on his right side facing a fence with his
back toward the officers. In Waller's body camera footage, a
handgun is visible in Jenkins's right hand as the other
officers keep their weapons pointed at him. Norton kneels beside

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Jenkins and removes the gun from his hand. The other
officers began treating Jenkins for his wounds roughly two minutes
after the shooting. He was later pronounced dead at the scene.
LMPD released the bodycam footage of the shooting on its
YouTube page eight business days after the shooting, in line

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with its practice of releasing body worn camera footage within
ten business days if it is what it calls critical incident.
Then Chief Jacqueline win Vilarow established that practice in August
twenty twenty three, when LMPD resumed in house investigations of

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shootings after police fatally shot Breonna Taylor, the Kentucky State
Police took over all shooting investigations involving Louisville officers. Critics
later faulted KSP for taking too long to release footage
and for responding slowly to questions and requests for details

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about the investigation. Who will investigate the shooting. Lmpd's Public
inte Integrity Unit PIU is conducting a criminal investigation into
the shooting. The unit investigates every case that results in
death or serious physical injury, any traffic related deaths or

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injury from pursuits or collisions, and incidents in which an
officer fires their gun at someone or vice versa, regardless
of injury. When the investigation ends, the PIU will send
its findings to the Kentucky State Police Metro's Office of
Inspector General and the Jefferson County Commonwealth's Attorney Office. Prosecutors

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will then decide whether to file criminal charges. At the
same time, lmpd's Professional Standards Unit is conducting an administrative
investigation to determine whether Norton and Waller violated department policy.
Deputy Chief Emily McKinley said, after reviewing the footage and

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considering the information available to her to her, she believes
the shooting was justified. Quote this is just a very
preliminary part of the investigation, McKinley said. We will do
a thorough investigation, make those judgments and those decisions in
the future. In the meantime, LMPD leadership has placed Norton

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and Waller on administrative leave. Police Chief Paul Humphrey has
discretion to discipline officers without waiting for investigations to conclude.
As of December five, he had not done so. Who
is Patrick Norton. LMPD hired Norton on June twenty sixteen.

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His personnel file contains forty nine commendation letters, several of
them tied to the same incident. In twenty twenty two,
he received a Department's Medal of Valor. Norton serves as
a canine officer in the Special Operations Division, which include
specialized units such as Air Unit and Bomb Squad. The

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Professional Standards Unit. Lmpd's Internal Affairs and Division has investigated
Norton nine times, resulting in thirty five suspension days across
three cases. His most serious discipline came in twenty nineteen,
when then Chief Stephen Conrad suspended him for twenty days

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after finding that Norton ignored clear signs of distress from
a suicidal man, struck him, and left him at the
wrong hospital entrance before driving away. Investigators also found that
Norton failed to complete required paperwork and turned off his
body camera during the twenty seventeen incident, something Norton repeatedly

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described as a force of habit. Conrad initially moved to
fire Norton, writing in a disciplined Larry letter that Norton
had brought discredit to himself and the department, quote, I
will not tolerate conduct of this nature. I cannot tolerate
this kind of contact by an officer of the Louisville

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Metro Police Department. Your conduct demands your termination. After Norton
pleaded his case during a pre termination meeting, Conrad reduced
the penalty to a twenty days suspension. Norton's second most
severe punishment, a twelve day suspension, came in twenty twenty one.

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Investigators concluded he had made profane, insulting, demeaning, and belittering
comments to two people in twenty eighteen, and made uncivil
and discourteous remarks to another person who appeared in distress.
Although he has not publicly identified at the time, Norton
was one of the officers who stopped the Reverend Kevin

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Cosby in September twenty eighteen. Cosby is president of Simmons
College of Kentucky, a historically black university, and senior pash
passer of Saint Stephen's church. A video of the traffic
stop posted by Crosby's daughter through widespread attention and fuel
debate about whether Norton's actions amounted to racial profiling. Then

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Metro Council member Bill Hollander called for investigation. In the footage,
Norton said he pulled Cosby over for making an improper
turn and for having a plastic rim around his license plate.
Conrad later determined that Norton had violated departmental policy during
the stop, his body camera was off center, he failed

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to identify himself, did not explain his reason for the
stop until prompted, and did not ask Cosby whether he
had any legitimate reasons for the alleged traffic infractions. According
to a disciplinary letter, Norton received counseling from a supervisor,
but was cleared of bias. In another high profile case,

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Professional Standards investigated and cleared Norton after he and another
officer fail a shot a man outside at Kroger grocery
store in Portland and twenty nineteen. According to previous reporting,
the man had allegedly assaulted someone inside the store, fired
a handgun into the ceiling, and later fired at Norton

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and the other officer. In response to questions about Norton's
disciplinary history, Kinley said she hopes he is judged by
his improvement over time rather than defined solely by earlier mistakes.
I think it's better testament to our character, McKinley said,
calling Norton an outstanding police officer and servant to Louisville.

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She added that Norton showed a clear command and leadership
at the scene for the November twenty two shooting. He
was calm under stress. He was a leader to his
peer officers. McKinley said, he was able to calm that
situation and develop a plan to safely approach mister Jenkins
and give him the aid that he needed at the moment.

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Who is Richard Waller? LMPD hired Waller in November two
thousand two. His personnel file includes twenty three commendation letters,
several of them recognizing the same incident. One such commendation
came in July twenty twenty four, when Humphrey praised Waller

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and other officers for quickly locating substance suspects in a
hit and run. According to the letter, that officers obtained
a warrant for the suspects vehicle and found methan, phetamine, cocaine,
and marijuana, along with a large amount of cash. Whiler
currently serves as a patrol officer in the fourth Division,

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which includes Smoketown, Churchill Down, South Louisville, and Old Louisville,
among other neighborhoods. He has never been the subject of
internal affairs investigation and has never been suspended or otherwise disciplined.
As of December eighth, there have been eight officer involved shootings,

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including one on December fourth, or surpassing last year's total
of four. Cameron shakes up senate run former state ag
to get a new campaign manager and This is written
by Lewis Albach of the Louisville Curry Journal The USA
Today Network. US Senate candidate Daniel Cameron is leading Republican

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and is the leading Republican in the replace Grace to
replace Senator Mitch McConnell is shifting his campaign team ahead
of May twenty sixth primary. In a statement December fourth,
Cameron's team confirmed campaign manager Taylor Zanaszi is transitioning off
the campaign at the end of the month. Said Nathaniel Hurst,

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set to step into the role. We are grateful for
his service and commitment during a critical phase of this race,
and wish him well in future endeavors, said Cameron, who
served as Kentucky's Attorney general roll from twenty twenty through
twenty twenty three. Nathaniel brings strong leadership, strategic focus, and

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deep dedication to our mission. We're a thrill to have
him guiding the team as we move into the next
phase of this campaign. A comment provided from then the
Nazi said he appreciated the opportunity to serve. I look
forward to what's ahead and have no doubt Daniel Cameron

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will be the next U S Senator from Kentucky. Cameron
entered the Senate race in February, minutes after McConnell announced
his plans to retire at the end of twenty twenty six.
His top competition in the U GOP primary as US
Representative Andy Barr and Lexington executive Nate Morris. US Air

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Force veteran and helicopter repair business owner Michael Ferris of Elizabethtown,
is also running. Poles released by both Cameron and Barr
have shown the former attorney general leads statewide in name
recognition due to his time in office for four years,
and for his unsuccessful gubernatorial run against incumbent Governor Andybasheer

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and twenty twenty three. Cameron lost that race by about
five percentage points. His fundraising has lagged Barr and Morris significantly,
though Barr, who has been in Congress since two thousand thirteen,
has built a war chest over the years of over
six point six million, while Morris made a fortune during

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his time running Rubicon Technologies, has millions of personal funds
to invest. He put three million towards his efforts in
the first three months of his campaign, according to Federal
elect Election Commission figures. Cameron Memont meanwhile, was sitting on
just under six hundred and thirty thousand dollars at the

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end of September. In October, after those numbers were released publicly,
his campaign said they are confident we will have plenty
of resources to win in May, from both our campaign
and outside conservative groups supporting us. In a December fourth
statement from the campaign, Hurt said he's honored to step

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into this role and excited for the work ahead. We
have a tremendous opportunity to share our message to put
America first and win this race, he said, quote, I'm
grateful for the team's confidence and ready to hit the
ground running to help lead this campaign to victory. Each
Republican candidate is seeking an endorsement from President Donald Trump,

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who has not yet weighed in on the race. He
backed Cameron in the twenty twenty three gubernatorial primary and
twenty twenty six US Senate primary will take place on
May nineteen. Fund for the Arts as interim president Louisville

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native Shepherd appointed and this is written by Kirby Adams
of the Louisville Career Journal USA Today Network. The Fund
for the Arts has a new interim leader. Fund for
the Arts board of directors appointed Bret Shepherd as the
interim president and CEO of the organization starting January one,

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twenty twenty six. Shepherd has served as the organization's Chief
Development offer since August twenty twenty two. Shepherd's appointment follows
the departure announcement of the President and CEO, Andre Kimo
Stone Guests, who has led the organization since twenty twenty,
who has led the organization since twenty twenty one. Guests

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and Shepherd will work in tandem until Guest steps down
from the role in twenty twenty six. Quote. Brett has
been critical to the success of Fund for the Arts
since starting in twenty twenty two, and I am so
grateful for him for stepping into this leadership role. Gest
said in a news release quote, I'm excited to work

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together to ensure a smooth transition for our stakeholders and staff.
A Louisville native, Shepherd has worked throughout the Louisville nonprofit
sector in fundraising at places including the Fraser History Museum,
Kentucky Performing Arts, and Waterfront Botanical Gardens. In the decades since,

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he has led major gift initiatives at Waterfront Botanical Gardens
and Kentucky Performing Arts, where he led fundraising efforts for
the development of Old Forster's Paristown Hall. He recently graduated
as part of Leadership Louisville Class of twenty twenty five.
I am deeply honored to lead the f FTA in

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this role, Shepherd said in the release quote. For many decades,
the arts have served as the pulse of our community.
Now more than ever, they play a pivotal role in
the cultural and economic vibrancy of a city while also
promoting healing, healthy Neighborhoods and youth Development. I'm excited to
work alongside the FFTA staff and board to ensure the

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arts are supported in thriving throughout our greater community. During
his tenure, outgoing President Guests developed the quote I Am
an Artist campaign at the Arts in Neighborhoods at the
Arts in Neighborhoods initiative, spearheaded the Cultural pass app, developed
a new vision, mission and values and strategies for the

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Fund for the Arts, and secured a seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars Humanifund investment with former Board of Directors
chair Nicole Yates. The Fund has raised more than two
hundred million for the greater Louisville area since it was
established in nineteen forty nine. According to its most recent

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annually fiscal year twenty twenty four, Fund for the Arts
reported net assets of nearly seven point eight million and
supported twenty seven area nonprofits with a two point three
million in sustaining grants, among other financial support and programming.
The Fund for the Arts also recently sold its four

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story headquarters at six point twenty three West Main Street
for four point four to five million to six two
three West Maine, loeu LLC Louvillian Daniel Norton noonan with
six to two three West Main. Lou LLC said in
July that he loved the location along Museum Row, but

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didn't have the specific plans for the property. The arts
focused nonprofit called the building home since it donated in
nineteen ninety eight eight eighty nine, but in May cited
evolving work patterns such as key reason behind the decision
to sell. Shephard plans to uphold the Fund's current vision, mission, values,

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and strategy to help the institution through this transition period.
The release states, quote Brett Sheppard brings a proven record
of collaborative, visionary leadership to the Fund for Arts, paired
with a deep commitment to our mission and a demonstrated
ability to drive successful fundraising set Fund for the Arts.

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Board chair Scott Sheffie lean quote, the board has full
confidence in his ability to guide the organization forward with
both strength and heart. Cheap drinks, rich vibes. This is
written by Amanda Hancock, Bradley who Ho'houln, Natalie Davies, and

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Susan Selaski of the Global Caurier Journal USA Today Network.
There is nothing quite like a dive bar, known universally
universally for cheap drinks, loud music, sticky floors, and no
shortage of local lore. For some, a die bar might
be the right of passage, the place one goes when

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they first turn twenty one and a two dollars draft
beer is calling their name. For others, a die bar
may be a place of comfort, a hole in the
wall you can go back to time and again, knowing
it will be the same each time. And some may
see it as a dive bar as a local neighborhood

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hunt where they can come as they are for a
cold drink and maybe run into other locals from other
walks of life, from Kentucky derby horse trainers and ford
employees to their kids, elementary school teacher or childhood crush.
No matter what your reason is for heading to a
dive bar, we love them all the same. Here are

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six of the top dive bars in the Midwest, from
Michigan to Kentucky that are worth a visit. Magnolia Bar
in Louisville, Kentucky, the staple of the city's historic Old
Louisville neighborhood since nineteen sixty two. Cheap drinks, loud music,
and the occasional run in with a vehicle. What's more
rock and roll than that. If you're local, you'll refer

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to this place as its nickname mag Bar, and you'll
know that the spot is the site of so many
car crashes into the bar that the term Magbard was
code on Urban Dictionary. Magbard is defined as turning a
non through building into a drive through without consent home

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to a vending machine stocked with cigarettes alongside snickers and
sun chips. Mag Bar holds a weekly metal, punk and
rock shows, plus the bar is right next to pizza
on this ski a late night pizza joint, you'll often
find patrons enjoying a slice or sharing a pie at

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mag Bar location thirteen ninety eight South Second Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
Magbar Louisville dot com Metropolitan Inn Indianapolis in the Anna,
opened to nineteen thirty five, This Butler tarkinghen Hot boasts

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one of the strongest collections of live music you can
find in an inexpensive bar, with an oak bar, green
shaded lamps above the pool tables, and even an old
vinyl booth taken from the long closed tp Ribe in restaurant,
Melody ann sings its loud his history Aloud. Live musicians

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passed through most nights and belt a huge variety of
styles from country to punk rock, typically for a cover
of around five dollars. While some bars thrive on always
offering the same comference to regulars night after night, Melody
always sounds a bit different. In twenty eighteen, its owners

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estimated that more than seven thousand bands had taken stage
in a span of a decade. Location thirty eight twenty
six North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. Melody Indie dot Com.
The Post Bar, Detroit, Michigan. The Post Bar on Broadway

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is one of the newest yet oldest to join Detroit's
dive bar scene. Originally located on Congress Street, it's been
known as a dive bar for decades. The original location
closed more than a dozen years ago. Jennifer Wheeler Dales,
along with her son Patrick and business partner John Thompson,

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opened this Broadway location in November twenty twenty four. Inside
is similar to the original as its long and narrow,
and the walls are already covered with customer graffiti. Location
thirteen twenty five Broadway Street Detroit, Michigan, Instagram, dot com,
forward Slash the Post Bar, Detroit, Sam's Silver Silver Circle, Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Sam's builds itself on its Facebook page as Fountain Square's
favorite dive bar, and the nearly century old hangout makes
a strong case for the title. The bar's walls are
crammed with as many sports posters, newspaper clippings, and license
plates as there is open space and then some. The

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music is loud, the front patio is smoky, and the
beer comes out sufficiently sudsey into plastic cups. Guests cluster
around tables and talk and raise voices, some sharing crackery.
Tavern style pizza ordered off a menu printed on the
bright green baseball background. Against one wall stands one of

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stands Sam's most newfangled amenities and electric darkboard, a nod
to a time when the bar attracted some of the
region's finest dark throwers. A beloved gathering place for thousands
of hoosiers over the years, Sam's was named one of
USA Today's Bars of the Year in twenty twenty four.

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Location one one to zero two Fletcher Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana,
Sam's Silver Circle dot Com Sidenfouden's Louisville, Kentucky. Regardless as
the oldest bar in Louisville that's operated under the same name,
Sidenfodden has gone through a few phases since it opened

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in nineteen twenty one. Once regarded as an old man
that opened at six a m. As a place to
drink coffee, scratch lottery tickets, and smoke cigarettes, establishment's modern
era includes live music, karaoke, movie nights, and late night hangs.

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It's also a family business. Owner Jimmy Heck first bought
the bar with his dad in two thousand and two.
Now Heck, his sister and son run the place of
Seidenfadden's many quirks. It's known for a highly carbonated blueberry
vod Could drink called the Iceberg, served on draft. It

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started as a joky way to serve an easy to
make fruity cocktail. The concoction got so popular that a
cherry version was added. Other than the Iceberg series, Seidenfodden's
followers dive bar orders are a shot and a beer place,
Heck said. Location eleven thirty five East Breckenwidge Street, Louisville, Kentucky, Facebook,

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Dot com Forward slash Seidentfoudens, Tony's Detroit Bar and Grill Detroit, Michigan.
Tony's Detroit occupies a structure built in eighteen forty. Its
basement is attached to a pathway used during the underground
railroad and Prohibition. According to owner Tommy Burrill, who owns

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thirty years of downtown bar experience to his restaurant, the
place was known as Tom's Tavern from nineteen thirty eight
to nineteen forty six and Thomas's Bar from nineteen forty
to nineteen seventy three. Burrell bought the bar in twenty
eleven and has been Tommy's Detroit Bar in Burrill ever since.

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Tommy's is not is not only known for its bar
atmosphere and free shuttles to Detroit arenas on game days,
but also for its fresh burgers, corn beef wings with
its special hot sauce, homemade ranch and other food options.
A location six twenty four Third Street, Detroit, Michigan. Facebook

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dot com forward slash Tommy's Detroit Bar and Grill Forward
slash Ford recalls more than twenty thousand vehicles and this
is written by Olivia Evans of the Louisville Courier Journal
USA Today Network. Ford Motor Company, the American automaker with
two assembly plants in Louisville, has issued recalls for more

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than twenty thousand vehicles, including some made at its Kentucky plants.
The manufacture of heavy duty trucks and SUVs in the
metro is one of the state's largest employers, with some
eleven thousand employees Between its Ford, Kentucky truck plant and
the smaller Louisville assembly plant. In Louisville, Ford produces its

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Marquee Super Duty trucks, Ford Exposition, Escape, Lincoln Navigator, and Corsel.
In April, Ford launched the all new twenty twenty five
Ford Expedition and the luxury Lincoln Navigator from its Kentucky
truck plant. At the end of twenty twenty five, the

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smaller louis All assembly plant will temporary close for retooling
to lift bring to life a two billion dollar investment.
This concludes excerpts from The Courier Journal for Monday, December eighth,
twenty twenty five. Your reader has been Rick Christmins