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Tuesday’s deadly attack on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas is sparking outrage and reigniting the political debate over gun control. So far the news is being received by Kentucky leaders with familiar refrains.
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The Fayette County School Board is asking the superintendent to develop a plan that would guarantee at least a 3% raise for all current district employees next year. But the lack of a dedicated, mandatory raise on the state level is leading districts to make hard choices.
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Attorney General Daniel Cameron has selected a dozen counties for a post-election audit.
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Kentucky’s COVID-19 positivity rate is on the rise, continuing a weeks-long upward trend, but there's still good news tucked in this week's new numbers.
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WUKY's award winning history program, Saving Stories; featuring interviews from the Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries, commemorates International Nurses' Day with a story about the Frontier Nursing Service which introduced the first nurse-midwives to the United States. Founded in Leslie County by Mary Breckinridge, the nurses of the FNS would travel by horse to some of the most inaccessible regions of Eastern Kentucky. Betty Lester, a recruit from Great Britain shares her memories of her first day in the mountains.
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Elizabeth Rhodus’s past experiences as an occupational therapist, and a motivation to enhance clinical care, led her to develop the innovative intervention now known as Harmony at H.O.M.E., which emphasizes sensory-based techniques in the home environment for those living with dementia. She talks about the technique in this week’s edition of Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine.
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Fayette County school board members are set to discuss their next budget and the possibility of teacher raises at a school board meeting tonight.
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Sen. Mitch McConnell is joining Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in pressing for an expansion of NATO amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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Kentucky's 2022 Teacher of Year testified before a U.S. House subcommittee Thursday, warning that LGBTQ students and teachers feel under attack as states move to restrict discussion of highly-charged issues in classrooms.
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WUKY is collaborating with Martha Greenwald, creator and curator of 'Who We Lost KY' a writing project where friends and families who have lost loved ones to the pandemic pay tribute and in some cases, say their final goodbyes. Today’s essay comes from Diane Hawkins from Jefferson County about her Aunt Joyce Bugg. Gary Graves reads.
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A federal judge is keeping a temporary order blocking new abortion restrictions from taking effect in Kentucky in place, meaning the state's two remaining abortion providers can keep their doors open — for now.
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This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Sarah Shook & The Disarmers (I Got This), Metric (All Come Crashing), Eli Paperboy Reed (Workingman Blues), Tank & The Bangas (No ID), Dr. John Featuring Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real (I Walk On Guilded Splinters), Florence & The Machine (My Love), & Amythyst Kiah (Sugar)!
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Lexington’s six city pools are preparing to reopen with regular hours for the first time in three years, and they’re getting upgrades paid for by federal pandemic relief dollars.
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Gov. Andy Beshear says it's fair to say Kentucky has no longer "leveled off" when it comes to new COVID-19 cases, but is instead seeing an escalation. But new variables are keeping hospitalizations and ICU usage in check.
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