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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the reading of the Louisville Courier Journal for Monday,
September twenty ninth, which is brought to our Louisville listeners
via Louisville Public Media. As a reminder, Radioize a reading
service intended for people who are blind or have other
disabilities that make it difficult to read printed material. Your

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reader to day is Rick Christman. We will start with
the five day forecast brought to you by w h A. S. Today,
the high will be eighty six. It will be very
warm with some sun and the low of sixty five.

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Tuesday a high eighty five, mostly sunny and a low
of sixty four. Wednesday high eighty two, warm with plenty
of sun and a low of fifty seven. Thursday a
high of seventy nine, mostly sunny and nice. Friday a
high of seventy nine, plenty of sunshine and a low
of fifty eight, and Saturday a high of seventy six

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with plenty of sunshine and a low of sixty Our
air quality today will be grass will be good, and

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weeds and molds will be good. Both Sunday and Monday.
For our temperature Almanac, the normal high is seventy nine
and the normal lowes fifty eight. The record high of
ninety three was set in nineteen hundred and the record

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low of thirty nine was set in nineteen forty. On Friday,
there was serial particip precipitation month to date four point
one seven inches, normal to date three point one two inches.
You're to date forty three point one four inches, and
normal to date thirty six point five to three inches.

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The first moon will be September twenty nine, the full
moon October sixth, the last moon October thirteen, and the
new moon October twenty first monitor for LMPD reform announced.
This is written by Agency Oversaw Newreeland is about the

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Agency oversaw New Orleans consent Degree, and it's written by
Chillian Balliar and Monroe Trombelly of the Louisville Courier Journal.
Mayor Craig Greenberg has announced that the organization that will
oversee Louisville's self imposed police reform plan. In a September

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twenty six news release, Greenberg said Effective Law Enforcement for
All e l e FA, the organization task with oversight
of New Orleans court ordered consent Degree, will serve as
the independent monitor for a Louisville's Community Commitment Plan. E
L e FA beat out twenty first Century Policing Solutions

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twenty one PC, which has played a role in overseeing
Baltimore's federal consent decree for the position. This was a
robust process that resulted in two extremely qualified finalist teams,
Greenberg said in the release. The scoring was incredibly close
and the results of our community survey Michael Harrison ended

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up being the deciding factor. E L e FA is
led by David Douglas, former managing partner of the Washington
d C. Office of Shepherd Mullen and a former federal prosecutor.
Douglas currently serves as Deputy Monitor for New Orleans, a
city under a federal consent degree since twenty thirteen. While

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twenty one CP officials voluntarily pledged to hire two community
liaisons who would have lived in Louisville, ELFA did not. Instead.
ELFA officials said their team will spend time with residents
and organizations to better understand the community they are now
poised to serve. Under the voluntary agreement, the independent monitor

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will oversee the implementation of promised reforms. The monitors's primary
responsibility will be to conduct compliance assessments, a process involving
five layers of review to evaluate how effectively Louisville Metro
Police follows each part of the plan. It will also
provide semi annual reports to the newly formed twenty four

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member Community Safety Commission, which will offer feedback. LMPD fully
supports a selection of effective law enforcement for all e
l e FA as the independent monitor. This is an
important step in strengthening public safety and community trusts. LMPD
officials route in a statement, quote independent monitoring will help

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ensure our efforts are measured, transparent, and understood by the
people we serve. We recognize the real progress requires both
responsibility within the department and strong partnerships with our community.
E l EFA's guidance will help us continue to building
on reforms already underway. We remain committed to working with

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our community towards safer and stronger Louible. Released in May,
the two hundred and fourteen page Community Commitment outlines Louisville's
police reform strategy. It followed the Trump's administration's withdrawal from
a court and forced agreement previously negotiated between the department
of Justice and Greenberg's administration. Louisville officials said elfa's contract

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with the city is to be negotiated. The independent monitoring
will work with the city on police reform efforts for
up to five years. According to the plan, Louisville Metro
will pay the monitor and their team up to seven
hundred fifty seven hundred fifty thousand dollars for the initial

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one year term. Officials based their decision on a scoring
committee and community service results that followed a September public
meeting where both finalists pitched themselves to the community. ELFA
is set to appear before the public October fourteen for
the Community Safety Commission's first meeting. The meeting will take

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place in the Louisville Free Public Library Main Library, located
at three zero one York Street. Quote. This is a
win for accountability, transparency in our continued commitment to reform,
Greenberg said in the release. We're on the right track
and we're going to keep creating an even safer, stronger,

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healthier Louisville. Council advances law to ease protests. Permit rules
defines peaceful demonstrations, clarifies that such gatherings can proceed without permission,
and this is written by Kellyan Baileyard of the Louisville
Courier Journal. Louisville lawmakers have passed an ordinance that ends

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permit requirements for some protests, an effort led by a
Republican council member who has in the past called out
Mayor Craigberg's administration not enforcing the city's permitting rules. Louisville
Metro Council passed the amended law, which defines peaceful demonstrations
and clarifies that such gatherings can proceed in public spaces

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without a permit at its September twenty five meeting. The
prior mayoral administration and this mayoral administration, in my humble opinion,
have not been consistent with how they have reinforced our
laws on the books related to this, Councilman Anthony Pegaginti
Nini said during a Public Safety committee meeting September seventeen.

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While explaining his reasoning behind the proposal to the committee,
Pagentini offered a few examples of organizations that applied for
permits to protest in public speaking public spaces but were denied. Meanwhile,
he said groups that have bypassed the lawful channels have

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been able to protest without being getting cited. The bottom
line is that were denied the right to protest, while
other groups who did not attempt to go through the
process were able to protest, Pagan Gentini said, and I
think that's inequity. During the summer, when the protests cropped
up across the nation in opposition to President Donald Trump's

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administration and immigration reinforcement, Pagan Pagentini aired his grievances over
the fact that a June nine protest organized by the
Louisville branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation blocked
traffic without appropriate permit and without penalty. He also noted

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that an ordinance revived in twenty twenty four that prohibits
wearing masks in public was not enforced. I have asked
the administration to enforce the law, but I guess unless
people or property are threatened, people will be allowed to
shut down streets with no consequences, he wrote on social
media at the time. In a statement to The Courier Journal,

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Greenberg's press secretary Matt Mudd, said the administration has been
consistent in its reinforcement quote the administration has maintained a
consistent approach to public demonstrations. The mayor fully supports the
right of individuals to assemble, protest, and advocate for the
causes they believe in. Mud said. At the same time,

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the city will not tolerate property damage or actions that
threaten public safety for simple crowd and traffic control situations.
Our peace officers are entrusted with the discretion needed to
ensure safety and order. Amended Louisville Ordnance Lusen's protest restrictions,

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The revised law now defines peaceful demonstrators as demonstrations as
events quote in which people gather in order to show
support or opposition to something or some one that does
not involve violence, threats of violence, or incitement to imminent
lawless action. Under the law, peaceful demonstrations related to protected

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first abandoned speech that do not quote disrupt traffic in
any manner and do not disrupt the free flow of
emergency vehicles can take place without a permit. That's an
additional exemption. You need not need to permit, and if
you fulfill these criteria, you can protest on the street,

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Pagentini told the Public Safety Committee. Pagentini said No King's
protest on June fourteen, for example, would have been legal
under the revised law. That event spilled from the steps
of the Metro Hall across Jefferson Street and into Jefferson
Square Park before protesters march through downtown. The Courier Journal

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reported the law creates another exemption related to peaceful demonstrations
at public parks. Permits are not required for protests at
parks as long as they do not impede access to
emergency personnel or interrupt any coinciding event at the park

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which was previously permitted. Louisville's law previously provided for certain
types of gatherings that don't require a permit. These include
gatherings like funeral processions, ticket lines that do disrupt traffic,
vehicle or foot traffic, educational activities, and parades or public

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assemblies contained within corporate boundaries. Spontaneous public assemblies triggered by
recent news or events may have been allowed without a permit,
on the condition that organizers give the city a twenty
four hour notice. Protest law sparks confusion from Council Democrats.

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When initially proposed, the changes sparked confusion among some Metro
Council Democrats, who said during the September seventeenth committee meeting
that several June protests did in fact mp traffic and
wondered how they would be considered legal under the law.
Council members J. P. Lyinginger and Ken hendered On both

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recalled protests from over the summer that disrupted traffic. Lineinger
expressed skepticism over how traffic impediments would be defined and
what level of street congestion would be permissible. I cano
fi it like that people were impeding traffic. If you
are marching down Sixth Street from Louisville from Jefferson to Broadway,

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by that definition, is it is it not impeding traffic?
Landinger said, I guess this is a question in the
eye of the beholder that I think is a bit
a can of worms. Pagentini said protests that poured into
streets are fair game as long as motorists can reasonably
get to their destination, whether it be by passing the

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crowd or taking an alternate route. The passage of emergency
response vehicles, however, is non negotiable. The intent here was
as long as you can still get to another place,
even through an alternate route. Then that protest is still legal.
Pagentini said, that's how we're enforcing it currently, and that's

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the intent behind this. The discussion at the committee level
prompted Pagentini to add language that clarifies that the flow
of traffic is not considered disruptive where there are available
alternative routes for use by a vehicle. Pagenttini noted that
while he would prefer laws around protesting be enforced as

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previously written leaves, the amended law will ensure parity. Will
there be more Will it be more chaotic for the city. Yeah,
probably because it allow people to just randomly walk down
the street and protest anything they want at any time,
he said during an interview. But we're already there prior
to the ordinance being passed. Langinger, who ran for his

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council seat as a Democratic Socialist, praised the Metro Council
for reducing barriers to freedom of expression. There's a little
saying that goes around people that engage in these sorts
of things. If you need a permit, it's a parade,
not a protest, Langinger said, I'm really proud of this
to expand the right to protest in our city. D

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HS plans to boost security at ICE sites. Dallas attack
shows limits of safeguards and this is written by Rick Jervis,
Nick Penzenstadler, and Lauren villegran Gan of USA Today. Dallas

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immigration attorney Vinish Patel has been troubled by the growing
security risks at immigration and customs enforcement facilities when the
deadly attack he feared happened. A sniper opened fire seventh
September twenty four on an ICE field office, killing one

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person who was being detained and injuring to others. It
was the latest in a string of violent attacks on
the nation's immigration system that are raising serious security concerns
for ICE agents, attorneys, judges, and migrants themselves across the country.

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Raucus protests at ICE facilities, aggressive tactics by massed agents
in the field, and heated political rhetoric on both sides
have become a dangerous new backdrop to what for years
has been the quiet, mundane work of immigration enforcement. The
day after the shooting, the Department of Homeland Security announced

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plans to beef up security at ICE facilities. Federal investigators
said the Dallas shooter, who died of a self inflicted
gunshot wound intended to target ICE agents, not the migrants
caught in his crosshairs. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLoughlin blasted

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the rising violence against ICE agents and said the shooting
was motivated by hatred for ICE. In a statement, she said,
in light of the shooting and other unprecedented acts of
violence against ICE law enforcement, including bomb threats cars being used,
as well weapons, rocks and molotov cocktails thrown at officers,

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and the docksing online of officers' families, DHS will immediately
begin increasing security at ACE facilit ICE facilities across the country. Patel,
the immigration attorney, had visited the Dallas ICE facility just
days before the shootings to meet an ICE officer about

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one of his clients. He remembered quote, the thought crossed
my mind. Will these spaces and courts become a scary
place if you worry that if people are targeting ICE,
they could target immigration judges and you worry about being
caught in the crossfire? He said, security designed for internal

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threats one of dozens like it across the country. The
Dallas Field Office devils as a processing center where ICE
agents bring in detained migrants for fingerprints and booking. Local
Top Top Local, ICE brass and support staff have offices there.
Dozens of agents start in the end of their work

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days there. Patel said. The building is split into a
front facing public office meant for immigration check ins, and
a rear secure area to temporary hold people being detained.
Secretary guards conduct basic metal detector searches at the front

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and the rear doors are fenced off in an open
air parking lot. That's what allowed the shooter to open
fire on a van transporting immigrants. Investors say the shooter,
identified as twenty nine year old Joshua John John, left
handwritten messages indicating he wanted to harm agents. Joseph Rothrock,

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FBI Dallas Special Agent in charge call the shooting a
quote target did ambush style attack on law enforcement. The
shooter wanted to cause terre for ICE agents across the country.
His plot was months in the making, Rothrock said during
a September twenty five news conference. Historically, security at ICE

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facilities has been about protecting agents and the people they
detained from internal threats like aggression from those being detained
or gained violence, a strategy that mimics the criminal justice system.
According to experts, ICE detention Standards and the Deity Detainee Handbook.

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The agency's detection standards include dozens of pages on safety
and security, including precautions specific to transportation to and from
ICE facilities, the standard state quote the facility will take
all reasonable precautions to protect lives, safety and welfare of detainees, officers,

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other personnel, and the general public during ground transportation, and
numerous requirements for handling and protecting detainees. But the reality
is that security is thought of as keeping the law
enforcement agents and other detainees safe from internal harms, said

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Deborah Fleischucker, a former ICE official who served under the
Biden and first Trump administrations. It's not thought of as
is keeping detainees safe from external harm, she said. It's
not the way we've been historically understood. Rothrock said ICE

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and other federal agents rushed into protest and rescue detainees,
at least two of whom were in restraints in the
transport van. Immigration enforcement front and center. Until recently, the
immigration system operated under the radar, not known well to
many Americans. ICE agents typically worked in small teams, making quiet,

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targeted arrests of immigrants with criminal records, often before dawn
or in the early morning hours. Most Americans knew little
about the ICE processing centers tucked into nondescript office buildings
where agents book detained migrants, or about the immigration courtrooms
hidden inside federal buildings acround the country. That changed this

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year as President Donald Trump rolled out a flashy, high
speed effort to deport immigrants living in the country illegally,
and the resistance has followed. Massed federal agents in riot
gear have pulled up on restaurants to arrest kitchen workers.
They've hidden inside a Penske moving van to ambush immigrants

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in a home depot parking lot. They've driven in to
ridden into a city park on horseback searching for undocumented immigrants.
Americans angry about their enforcement tactics have in some cases
responded aggressively. Some Los Angeles activists violently protested ICE enforcement

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earlier in twenty twenty five. Others are tracking the movements
of ICE agents on social media or in a controversial app,
and in July, not far from the Dallas Field Office
and ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas, attackers use fireworks

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to draw out ICE agents and ambush them. Quote we're
looking at hardening our facilities, said Marcos Charles, executive associate
director for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations in Dallas. The
evidence is clear that this is an assault on ICE
personnel who come to work every day to do their job.

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Safety should be a priority. On September twenty four, workers
wearing fbied shirts and jackets milled around the Dallas Field
Office parking lot, occasionally retrieving equipment from a large black
truck labeled FBI. With threats and attacks on the rise,

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Patel said ICE now needs to consider outsider threats as
on agents and on those who are part of the
immigration system who could be vulnerable. Immigrants included. It seems
like now obviously safety would be a priority to make
sure no one is caught in crossfire, even if they're
not the intended target. Patel said. New tariffs target home

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improvement materials and this is written by Kinsey Crowley of
USA Today. President Donald Trump announced a new round of
tariffs on September twenty five, I focusing on specific goods
like kitchen cabinets and furniture. We will be imposing a
fifty percent tariff on all kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities and

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associated products starting October one, twenty twenty five. Additionally, we
will be charging a thirty percent tariff on unupholstered furniture,
Trump said in a truth Social post. In the same
series of posts, he announced a twenty five percent tariff
on all heavy big trucks imports and one hundred percent

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tariff on brand name drugs. Trump's sweeping tariffs against countries
around the world could be at legal rescue to a
case headed to the Supreme Court. Reuters reported on these
new actions and could be part of the Trump administration's
shift to a better established legal authority. The president said

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on his truth Social post, the reason for the cas,
vanity and furniture tariffs is the large scale flooding of
these products into the United States by other outside countries.
It's a very unfair practice that we must protect for
national security and other reasons our manufacturing process. Thank you

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for your attention to this matter. Trump teased the focus
on furniture and August in a True Social post, saying
he would run a major tariff investigation. This will bring
the furniture business back to North Carolina, South Carolina, Michigan,
and states all across the Union, he wrote on August

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twenty two, jobs for furniture and wood products manufacturing have
been cut in half since two thousand, Reuters reported and
the United States imported about twenty five point five billion
in furniture in twenty twenty four, with more than half
of these imports coming from Va, Vietnam and China. Some

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furniture executives worry about rising prices and the lack of
domestic manufacturing capacity. Ramping up manufacturing in the United States
would require years of investment in building the facilities and
workforce that most in this industry cannot afford to make.
Rh and, formerly known as Restoration Hardware CEO Gary Friedman said,

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according to writers, a tariff is a form of tax
imposed on imports from another country. Tariffs can create more
demand for domestic manufacturers, but these companies are also part
of the global supply chain and therefore also affected by tariffs,
and experts have previously explained to USA Today. Trump has

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frequently used tariffs as part of foreign policy negotiations in
his second term, many of them were reduced or delayed.
In November, the Supreme Court will hear arguments for an
appeal of a lower court's decision that Trump overreached when
he invoked a nineteen seventy seven law to impose tariffs

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on imports from most countries. If the judges justices rule
against Trump, the administration will need to issue refunds on
revenue collected from approximately half the tariffs. This concludes readings
for the first sections of the Courier Journal for Monday,

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September twenty nine, twenty twenty five. Stay tuned for more
news to follow immediately. Your reader has been Rick Christman.
Now to continue reading from the Courier Journal for Monday,
September twenty nine, twenty twenty five. Reader is Rick Christman.

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We will start with the 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 weekdays at
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these listings. Lester Joseph Gilroy Junior, eight seventy five, Louisville, Kentucky.
If you would like further information about any of the
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four two two six three nine zero, and we will

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be glad to read the entire item for you. AG
downplays climate change harms. This is written by Connor Griffin
Giffin of the Louisville Courier Journal. In lengthy comments to
the US Environmental Protection Agency this week, Kentucky Attorney General

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Russell Coleman made a series of false or unsupported claims
about the science of climate change, including suggestions at higher
carbon dioxide levels would bring net benefits for millions of Americans.
These comments came in an eighty eight page letter to

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the EPA on September twenty two encouraging a Trump administration
to strike down in Obama era endangerment finding, which established
the harm of greenhouse gas emissions to the public and
underpins the agency's ability to regulate the emissions. Attorneys General

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John B. McCuskey of West Virginia and Russell Coleman of
Kentucky led a coalition of more than two dozen states
in calling for the FEPA to rescind the finding, which
Cullmann called both on lee unlawful and scientifically unproven. The
letter came in contradiction to the findings of the scientific

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community that climate models overstate the harm of greenhouse gas emissions.
The Attorneys General said continued reliance on modeled scenarios of
climate change approaches scientific malpractice. The comments were at odds
with decades of findings from the world's major scientific organizations,

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including the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, which
found this month that quote evidence for current and future
harm to human health and welfare created by human cause
greenhouse gases is beyond scientific dispute. This is not a

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he said, she said argument. Gabrielle Philippelli's, a climate scientist
and director of the Environmental Resilience Institute at Indiana University,
said in an email to The Courier Journal there is
a valid debate to be had about how to balance

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a push toward reducing emissions of har harmful greenhouse gases
with maintaining economic vitality, which is not the debate. In
a statement, Coleman criticized the endangerment finding as part of
a quote nonsensical green agenda, and said the Attorney's General

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are partnering with President Trump to preserve affordable and reliable
energy in Kentucky and to stop the madness that has
hiked prices and killed jobs. Coleman's office did not respond
to requests for comment on the science related content of
the letter, nor Kentucky's risk of more frequent disasters as

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a result of shifting weather patterns. The letter comes amid
a devastating year of severe weather in Kentucky, including two
bouts of major flooding which took the lives of more
than two dozen Kentuckians. The deluge in April was made
more likely and more intense by climate change, according to

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modeling from the World Weather Attribution Beyond Scientific Dispute. In
their letter to the EPA, the Attorney's General claimed that
two thousand nine endangerment funding finding was not built on
was not only built on shaky scientific foundation, but the

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science of climate change is quote even more unsettled now
the world's leading scientific bodies disagree. Ongoing study of greenhouse
gas emissions, climate and extreme weather has benefited from more
data and improved observational methods, and has continued to reaffirm
the same basic conclusion climate change threatens the health of

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the public. Improved observations can form unequivalently that greenhouse gas
emissions are warming Earth's surface and changing Earth's climate, the
National Academies found in this month's report. Trends observed include
increases in hot extremes and single day participation precipitation events,

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declines in cold extremes, regional shifts and annual precipitation, warming
of the Earth's oceans, a decrease of ocean pH, rising
sea levels, and an increase in wildfire severity. Exposure to
extreme heat, ground level ol zone, pollutants from wildfire's space,

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and infectious diseases carried by insects, to name a few,
all pose a danger to public health, according to the report.
The Republican's supermajority in Kentucky's legislature has acknowledged mounting risk
of severe weather to Kentuckians in a resolution unanimously approved
by the Kentucky Senate this year. Lawmakers said the Commonwealth

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has experienced an increase in the occurrence and magnitude of
national disasters, including flooding and tornadoes, as a result of
shifting weather patterns. Jerry Brotsky, Kentucky's state climatologist and director
of the Kentucky Climate Center, said the Attorney's General correctly

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identified some limitations and common misunderstandings regarding client change, climate change,
and CO two. For example, the US alone cannot ras
climate change in global greenhouse gas emissions. It will take
an international collective action to decarbonize. Long term evidence is

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lacking on the number and severity of some extreme weather
events such as tornadoes, and there is some spread in
the outcomes of different climate models. Still, Kentucky has seen
increases in temperatures and rainfall. Based on weather records dating
back to eighteen ninety five, the most significant discernible impact

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to the Commonwealth has been the long term increase in precipitation,
Brodsky said in an email, especially evident over the last
two decades. The Attorney's General also continued greenhouse gas emissions
will bring benefits in the form of increased agricultural yields,

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citing record US crop yields in record years. While it's
true that some crops benefit from heightened carbon dioxide levels,
scientists expect these gains to be countered by heat stress, drought,
and extreme weather events fueled by a changing climate. Climate

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driven changes in temperature and precipitation extremes and variability are
leading to negative impacts on agricultural crops. In livestock, the
National Academies found even as technological and other changes have
increased agricultural production. Letter leans on contrarians and criticized sources.

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Common comments from the Attorney's General echo many of the
findings in a recent Department of Energy report released in July,
which similarly challenge the science of climate change and has
been used as supporting evidence for the EPA's move to
reconsider the endangerment finding. The report, which was widely criticized

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by the scientific community as misleading, was written by five
scientists known for their contrarian views on climate. By comparison,
more than seven hundred scientists were involved in the most
recent United Nations climate assessment, and the Trump administration really
recently dismissed more than four hundred scientists who are working

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on the country's landmark National Climate Assessment. Some scientists cited
that DOEES report have said the research was misrepresented, or
represented or misused in the report. One fact check of
the DOE report from the climate publication Carbon Brief found

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more than one hundred false or misleading claims. The Trump
Administration's reversal on US climate policy has already brought tangible
effects to Kentucky or fossil fuel fired power plants still
make up more than ninety percent of energy generation. The
EPA is moving to repeal gas greenhouse gas regulations for

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power plants to Kentucky. Decarbonized decarbination projects have lost federal
funding and FEMA pulled millions of dollars from disaster medication, mitigation,
and infrastructure projects in Kentucky. The repeal of clean energy
tax credits also stands to hinder Kentucky's budding electric vehicle industry.

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Kentucky is seeking new toll service provider and this is
written by Marianna Johnson of the Louisville Courier Journal. Kentucky
and Indiana are currently seeking a new toll service provider
for the RiverLink tolling system with goals to improve customer
service and overall performance. The Joint Board for the Louisville

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Southern Indiana, Ohio River Bridges Project approved a change order
and resolution for the transition on Monday, September twenty two,
with several terms outlined. According to the news release from RiverLink, quote,
delivering quality customer service is the driving force for the states.

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Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Secretary Jim Gray said, beginning procurement efforts
for a new toll service provided earlier ensures the best
chance of delivering the reliable service RiverLink customers deserve. It
also means protecting the total revenue that pays for the

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bridges project, with tens of thousands of motorists rely on
daily for faster and safer commutes. Negotiated terms include a
one time payment of up to two million dollars to
electronic transition consultant Consultants, the current toll service provider, which

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will keep its position no later than July thirty one,
twenty twenty eight, for overflow customer service costs, and monthly
payments of two hundred and fifty thousand for up to
forty six additional full time customer service employees. If performance
goals are met, there will be an additional one hundred

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and seventy thousand dollars available four per per month. The
two states will also take over several operating costs from
the electronic transition consultants, including out of state look up costs,
storage costs, and printing costs, which will cost around one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars a month. Indiana Apartment of

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Transportation Commissioner Lindsay Quist similarly emphasized the importance of meeting
customer needs during the transition. There will be no changes
to the roadside provider, Transcorp LP, which was awarded a
seven year contract in twenty twenty two. Quote. Our unwavering

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commitment has been and will continue to be making sure
customers get the assistance they need, she said. We believe
a new provider will deliver improved service and better align
with the values and goals of the state. Local coffee
shops to try for National Coffee Day. Maggie Menderski Louisville

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Courier Journal, Rise and Shine, Louisville National Coffee Day is here.
No one really needs an excuse to enjoy a comforting
cup of java, but this caffeine fueled holiday falls each
year on September nine. Two thirds of American American adults

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drink coffee each day, according to the National Coffee Association,
and on average, American coffee drinkers consume about three cups
of coffee per day. Whether you're in the mood for
a warm cup of the house drip or flavorful latte,
Louisville has a strong variety of coffee shops. Here are

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five great coffee shops to check out in Louisville. Editors. No,
this is not a definitive list of the best coffee
shops in Louisville, but rather a brief, curated selection geared
toward variety. The Breeze twelve forty seven South Shelby Street.

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The Breeze dot Com hours Sunday to Thursday, eight am
to nine pm, Friday and Saturday eight am to ten pm.
This Shelby Park gem Bruce coffee from Deeper Roots Coffee,
which is a popular roaster in coffeehouse in Cincinnati. The
coffee bar also offers a selection of beer wine cocktails,

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cafe correttos, sorbetto with prosecco, and seasonal gelatos. The Breeze
doubles as a wine shop, Bodiga like market, and a
gift shop. It is also connected to Canary Club, which

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is a popular wine bar. Fonte's Coffee twenty five zero
one Grinstead Drive, Vantestcoffee dot com hours Monday to Friday,
seven am to eight pm, Saturday and Sunday eight am
to eight pm. Fantas Coffee owner Leo Fante has been

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in the coffee business since nineteen eighty seven, and he's
deeply proud of their relationships he's built with growers over
the past four decades. This European style coffee shop operates
out of a charming building on the edge of the
Cherokee Triangle. The shop is cozy, living room like vibe

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to it that invites guests to settle in and stay
Awhile Fat Falacha Coffee one thousand and one Mary Street,
Instagram dot Com forwards last Falasha hours Monday to Sun
Saturday seven am to seven pm, Sunday eight am to

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six pm. This Nepali coffee shop was quickly became a
Germantown hotspot since it debuted debuted in twenty twenty four.
The name comes from a Nepali word for resting place,
while the cozy, dreamy space invites coffee drinkers to stile.

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While the shop currently serves traditional coffee drinks, it's also
known for its purple drinks made with ubay, a type
of purple m and other creative, vibrant me menu items
such as strawberry rose latte with natilla. This month, the
shop is launching a second location in Saint Matthew's at

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thirty nine hundred Shelby Road Road, Sweet twelve Safe Coffee
seventeen o seven Bardstown Road and inside Logan Street Marka
Market one zero one Logan Street, Safecocoffee dot com Ours
Bardstown location Monday to Friday seven am to six pm

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Saturday and Sunday eight am to six pm. Logan Street
Market location Tuesday to Thursday eight am to three pm.
Friday to Sunday eight a six pm closed Monday. Safari
Coffee began as a humble, drive through style coffee hut

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in nineteen ninety eight, but has ballooned into one of
the most well respected names in the Louisville coffee scene.
In addition to its coffee shops in the Highlands and
inside Logan Street Market, Safe Coffee is sold in major
realators such as retailers such as Kroger and Whole Foods.

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It has also served in several hotels across the United
States and Caribbean Islands. Switchboard nine hundred Baxter Avenue, inside
the lobby of the Myriad Hotel. Myriadhotel, dot com, Forward
Slash Food and Booze Forward Slash Switchboard Ours Sunday and

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Monday seven a m. To one pm, Tuesday to Saturday
seven am to four pm. This cozy spot in the
original Highlands serves coffee and pastries by day, and cocktails,
beer wine and tapas at night. Switchboard, with its intimate space,

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stylish marble looking tabletops and plush bruth seating, is known
to have delicately crafted seasonal drinks. This is a great
coffee shop to linger in while waiting for a meeting
or a friend, or to join colleagues to go over
a work project. The shop also has a variety of

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sweet treats and breakfast sandwiches to devour on your visit.
When five pm comes and your workday is over, you
change out your latte order for an espresso martini. Safari
Coffee seventeen oh seven. Bardstown Road serves seasonal lattes with

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a variety of penninees in the Highlands area. Amanda Cancock
Forward Slash Churier Courier Journal TV show project about lifelong
dreams Seeks Kentucky Stories and this is written by Kirby

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Adams of The Courier Journal. Do you have a lifelong
dream that you've never fulfilled, but you just keep thinking
about it in the back of your mind. Maybe you've
always wanted to learn the skills to become a professional
cake decorator, a magician, or ballroom dancer. Perhaps thrill seeking
is more your style, and skydiving, mountain climbing, or racing

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or driving a race car are more in line with
your passions. Whatever your heart desires, A new television project
that celebrates and empowers men and women in midlife and
beyond is holding an open casting call. Rebecca ros Chan,
founder of Reality TV Casting Calls, told the Courier Journal, project,

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tentatively titled It's Your Time, will highlight stories of resilience
and second chances, with experts and mentors providing assistance to
help participants achieve their goals. We are looking for regular
people who are forty years old and older, who have
been busy raising families or involved in a demanding career,

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and are now ready to do something they've always dreamed
of doing but had to put aside earlier in their life,
said rosachan quote. This won't be a reality show. It
will feel more like a documentary with cameras checking on
your progress occasionally. The show is meant to be inspirational
and family friendly. Currently, producers can't reveal where the show

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will ultimately air, but they did tell the Courier Journal
the series is casting for a major cable network. So
what do you say? It is now the time to
give scuba diving or writing a children's book a shot
if you are willing to allow cameras to follow you
through the process. Here's what you need to know to

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apply for the open casting call. Men and women who
are forty years and older and ready to pursue a
lifelong dream are invited to apply online at It's Your
Time dot castingcrane dot com by Thursday, October one deadline.
For more information about the show can be found at

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Instagram dot com forward slash are our Casting Inc. Forward slash.
The casting Instagram page includes information and a leak in
the bio, where you can also fill out an application.
For applicants needing further details. Rosa Chan is available via

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email at Rebecca at Casting Inc dot com. We're excited
to be filming the series entirely in Kentucky because there
seems to be so many interesting stories here, said Rosa Chan.
This is meant to be an inspiring show about real
people achieving something special. And perhaps it will inspire the

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viewers to Trump will meet with congressional leaders. This is
written by Joey Garrison of USA Today. Washington. President Donald
Trump will meet with congressional leaders from both parties at
the White House on September twenty nine, less than forty
eight hours before a deadline to avoid a government shutdown.

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A White House official confirmed the meeting with House Speaker
Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Democratic Senate Leader
Chuck Schumer, and a Democratic House and Democratic House Leader
Hakim Jeffries. It comes after Trump abruptly canceled a meeting
that had previously been set for September twenty five with

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the two Democratic leaders. The federal government is set to
run out of money at midnight on October one, the
start of the new fiscal year, unless lawmakers overcome partisan
differences to strike a deal to pass a funding bill,
it will mark the federal government's fifteenth partial shutdown since

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nineteen eighty one. Absent a breakthrough, essential government services such
as the military and law enforcement, will keep operating under
a shutdown, but non essential services, including national parks, will
be forced to close or cut staffing. The Trump administration
has also warned Democrats of potential widespread layoffs of government

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employees and cuts to programs for low income women and
children if a deal is not averted reached to avert
a shutdown. Punch Bowl News was the first to report
on Trump's upcoming meeting with congres leaders. Republicans in the
House narrowly passed a short term funding bill on September

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nineteen to fund the government through November twenty one, but
the bill fell short in the Senate, where sixty votes
are required to prevent a Democratic filibuster. State Democrats, who
are a minority in the Chamber, are using a rare
moment of political leverage to demand the funding bill reserved,

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reverse looming cuts to Medicaid and lapsing Obama Care subsidies.
As we have repeatedly said, Democrats will meet anywhere, at
any time, with anyone to negotiate a bipartisan spending agreement
that meets the needs of the American people. Schumarch and
Jeffries said in a joint statement on their plans to

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meet with Trump, we are resolute in our determination to
avoid a government shutdown and address the Republican health care crisis.
This time is running out. They added, Russia slams Kiv
with mass drone missile strikes and this is written by

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Pavel Polykchuk and Mike Colette White of rotors Kiv. Russia
launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Kiev in other
parts of Ukraine early in September. On September twenty eight,
killing at least four people and injuring dozens in one
of the most sustained attacks on the capitol since the

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full scale war began. Neighboring Poland closed its airspace near
two southeastern cities, and its air force scrambled jets in
response until the danger had passed. Ukraine's military said that
Russia launched five hundred and ninety five drones and forty
eight missiles over night, and its air defenses shot down

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five hundred and sixty eight drones and forty three missiles.
It noted that the main target of the strike was
the capital. Kiev. President Voldemir Zelensky said the attack, which
lasted more than twelve hours, damaged a cardiology clinic, factories
and residential buildings. Russia's Defense ministry said on October twenty

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eight it had carried out a massive attack on Ukraine,
using long range air and sea based weapons and drones
to target military infrastructure, including air fields. Moscow has denied
targeting civilians in its war against Ukraine, though thousands have
been killed in residential areas extensively damaged by the attacks.

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Zelensky again urged the international community to act decisively to
cut off Russia's energy revenues that fund its invasion. Ukraine
has also sas so far failed to convince President Donald
Trump to impose punitive sanctions on Moscow. This concludes excerpts

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from the Career Journal for Monday, September twenty nine, twenty
twenty five. Your reader has been Rick Christman.