We're surrounded by it. We already tolerate gambling from the lottery, church pic-nic's, Horses, Dogs. Why do we send all the slot machine and black jack money to Indiana and Ohio? Is that a different kind of evil?

Notes and Highlights of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear’s Live Update December 17, 2020
Notes by mr_tyler_durden and Daily Update Team
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234,021 Cases (+3,349), 2,316 Deaths (+54)
New cases by county: 475x Jefferson, 178x Kenton, 171x Boone, 126x Fayette, 119x Campbell, 106x Pulaski, 103x Hardin, 94x Daviess, 86x Madison, 80x Warren, 70x Wayne, 57x Laurel, 57x McCracken, 57x Shelby, 56x Pike, 48x Oldham, 44x McCreary, 38x Russell, 37x Taylor, 34x Jessamine, 34x Perry, 33x Bell, 32x Christian, 32x Letcher, 32x Nelson, 31x Bullitt, 31x Lincoln, 30x Anderson, 28x Allen, 28x Graves, 28x Henderson, 28x Marion, 28x Marshall, 28x Rowan, 27x Mercer, 26x Boyle, 24x Clinton, 24x Grant, 24x Montgomery, 23x Logan, 23x Ohio, 22x Floyd, 21x Adair, 21x Scott, 21x Spencer, 20x Calloway, 20x Fleming, 20x Mason, 19x Boyd, 19x Carter, 19x Casey, 19x Trigg, 18x Franklin, 18x Meade, 18x Muhlenberg, 17x Woodford, 16x Martin, 16x Whitley, 15x Knox, 14x Clark, 14x Garrard, 14x Hopkins, 13x Barren, 13x Harlan, 13x Simpson, 13x Washington, 12x Clay, 12x Lawrence, 12x Pendleton, 11x Knott, 10x Carroll, 10x Monroe, 9x Harrison, 9x Larue, 9x Lee, 9x Morgan, 9x Rockcastle, 9x Todd, 8x Bath, 8x Greenup, 7x Cumberland, 7x Jackson, 7x Lyon, 7x Owen, 6x Bourbon, 6x Hart, 6x Henry, 6x Johnson, 6x McLean, 6x Trimble, 5x Butler, 5x Gallatin, 5x Green, 5x Nicholas, 5x Union, 5x Wolfe, 4x Breathitt, 4x Carlisle, 4x Edmonson, 4x Estill, 4x Hancock, 4x Leslie, 3x Breckinridge, 3x Fulton, 3x Grayson, 3x Powell, 3x Webster, 2x Bracken, 2x Caldwell, 2x Elliott, 2x Lewis, 2x Livingston, 2x Owsley, 1x Ballard, 1x Hickman, 1x Magoffin, 1x Metcalfe
New deaths by county: 67 M Bullitt, 72 M Bullitt, 94 F Calloway, 83 F Carroll, 47 M Casey, 81 F Christian, 69 M Christian, 97 F Clinton, 82 M Clinton, 76 M Daviess, 92 F Fayette, 88 F Graves, 63 F Grayson, 68 F Grayson, 85 F Hardin, 94 M Henderson, 84 F Hopkins, 64 M Hopkins, 98 M Hopkins, 82 F Jefferson, 97 F Jefferson, 47 M Jefferson, 87 M Jefferson, 85 F Jessamine, 55 M Jessamine, 77 M Johnson, 66 M Kenton, 75 F Knott, 79 F Knott, 75 M Larue, 88 F Logan, 88 F McLean, 76 F Madison, 85 F Madison, 90 F Madison, 99 F Madison, 77 M Madison, 89 M Madison, 83 M Mason, 87 M Mason, 76 M Monroe, 81 F Muhlenberg, 77 M Muhlenberg, 61 F Nelson, 52 M Nelson, 75 M Oldham, 86 M Oldham, 95 M Oldham, 70 M Robertson, 87 M Robertson, 63 M Russell, 92 F Spencer, 73 F Union, 58 F Washington
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Alright, the Healthy at Home Eviction Relief Fund is closed to applications, we had to close it today at noon, and that's because we now have 396 completed applications. <...>We're going to spend all of those dollars, all $15M and we're going to help at least 3477 households, I think that number will be more like 3,700.
Vaccine: So yesterday we were happy to confirm all 11 of the hospitals that Kentucky set to receive the initial delivery of vaccines have confirmed their receipts. <...> So the new news today is Pfizer has confirmed a second shipment for next week of 27,300 doses. Now the majority of this, and I'll explain in a minute, is going to go to our long term care program. We're excited that a second shipment was finally confirmed, I will say that this is lower than we anticipated based on the first allocation.
So today we are also starting our vaccine campaign, so that we can provide information to Kentuckians and build their confidence in these amazing vaccines. So, there are a couple phases of the campaign. <...> Video: It's just a little shot but the COVID-19 vaccine does more than keep you from getting sick. It will get folks back to work. Get our kids back at school. It's a shot of relief, of hope. All we have to do Kentucky is keep doing our part. We can't all get the vaccine at once, but we'll all get a turn. Get the facts, at http://kyCOVID19.ky.gov/
WH Report: That despite the nation escalating dangerously, we have seen a stability, that would be their way of saying a plateau, in new cases and a decrease in test positivity. That means we are doing better while the rest of the nation is doing worse. Here is what we showed in the map, just on Monday, that hospitals are reporting critical staffing shortages. We showed it more in ICU beds and how many are taken, but the state is managing. <...> A couple of other points, they talk a little bit about the vaccine and their current thinking, especially as we get past the stage they're in. They ask us to ensure comprehensive analysis of next tier priority of vaccinations, understand immunization of individuals over 65 will have the greatest impact on hospitalizations and deaths. In other words, if we want to cut down our deaths as quickly as we can, after long term care, they're suggesting we look at Kentucky ages 65 and up. That'll reduce deaths and also create more hospital capacity for everybody else who might get sick. And then they give some pretty startling statistics if you haven't seen them for those over 70 with COVID infection. 20% or more that get the infection are admitted to the hospital, nearly 10% die.<...>Also, a couple other warnings here, and significant warnings that at this point if you're over 65, or with a significant health condition, don't go to any indoor public space where anyone is unmasked. The White House now says that is an immediate threat to your health. So make sure you get groceries delivered, or have them have them brought to your car, and your medications delivered. That's where we are.
Dr. Stack: So as we look to Christmas, and Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and New Years, and all the other holidays that happen around this time of year, it's very important that we adjust what we normally would do for the COVID year. So, we are again asking you to limit the size of your gatherings to eight people max, and no more than two households. Ideally you would stay with only your own household. I know this is difficult. I enjoy as much as anyone else getting together this time of year, clearly it is a highlight of the last few weeks of any year. But if you get together with people with whom you do not live, you should assume someone in that group is infected. If you eat and drink and take your masks off, you should assume you are at high risk for getting infected. The disease is that widespread at this time. <...>
Dr Stack: The Governor already commented that the KY COVID-19 hotline ((800) 722-5725) is now prepared to begin addressing people's general questions about vaccines. So if you are curious about its safety or its appropriateness for you they are prepared to answer general questions. Obviously, there is still limited information on a number of things you may be curious about and as we get more information the personnel there answering your questions will get progressively more information they can share. Things that you should not call that hotline for are asking to schedule appointments, asking “When am I going to be able to get the vaccine?”, advocating for when you should get the vaccine, those are things that they are not in a position to answer. So please save that hotline for people who have questions, who have information they're trying to find, and perhaps you have more difficulty navigating our website. For everyone else, our website- we will continue to update the vaccine page, so that we put more information, as we go forward, as we learn more about the guidance from the federal government and the subsequent phases for the vaccination we'll also try to put information there, so that people can have a one stop shop to go and find more recent updates.<...>
I've seen some reports that some Pfizer vials of vaccine contain an extra one or even two extra doses. Is that something that you're hearing from hospitals around Kentucky and could that mean that there are more than the 38,000 doses in this initial shipment? -- Let's send that over to Dr Stack because he just put out his opinion on that today. And let's hear from him directly.
- Dr Stack: [...] So yes, whenever they fill these vials the overfill just a little bit to make sure that they don't under fill the vial and it turns out that a lot of sites for reporting that they were able to pull out a full sixth additional dose for a five dose vial, it may be there's extra material beyond that. The FDA issued some tweets, even for me it seems odd that Twitter has become an official communication platform, but they have shared that they recommend that those extra doses, if they are full doses, that they be used. And I issued a memorandum today to the 11 hospitals who currently have inventory in Kentucky that they should, in fact, feel permitted to use those while we await official FDA guidance via channels, other than Twitter, so they are able to do that.
Will the number of people who choose not to get vaccinated have any impact on the timeline of when the state will start relaxing restrictions and mandates? -- We believe- I think the answer there is yes and no. We believe that enough Kentuckians are going to be willing to take the vaccine to where that won't be an issue but there will be the amount of time it takes to get everyone who wants to take a vaccine, a vaccine. You know they say nationally they want more than 70% maybe closer to 80% of individuals to take the vaccine, obviously getting there is going to require us having more knowledge on younger adults. But right now where I see public opinion, I believe that we can get there in Kentucky.
We've gotten questions from listeners, discussing the differences between the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines. Is there one that either of you prefer over the other, or you have equal confidence in both and you're just going to be happy to get one or the other? Thank you. -- [...] Pfizer right now has been through the emergency approval process, Moderna hasn't gotten through that yet. Provided it does, and all things being equal, they appear to be 94, 95% effective each. Pfizer has a three week time period between initial shot and booster, Moderna has a four week time period, but if you're asking me in working on the logistics of getting the vaccine out all over the Commonwealth, Moderna doesn't require the deep refrigeration and so in many ways that makes it easier to get out to people.
- Dr Stack: So I agree with the governor, that there are differences in the timing and the logistics, but I would say if you are willing to receive a vaccine, and I hope the vast majority of you will be, then I think you should take whichever one you could get. It appears that though there are different timings and storage characteristics the performance of both is functionally equivalent and so you will get similar protection for both of them, so I would take the first one you can get.
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Hi everybody, it's four o'clock on Thursday, that’s when we get together and remember that we're gonna get through this, and we're gonna get through this together. I want to thank Logan County Schools for today's mask and for everything they do to educate our children, whether remotely, or in-person. Thank you for all your efforts in protecting our kiddos. We're going to start today with a couple pieces of good news, both in our economy, and in fighting COVID-19, then we're going to look at some of the entries in the White House report. And then get to our COVID report for the day, which, while the numbers are showing that we are stabilizing, or at least a little decrease from last week, we have our highest number of deaths today. So that'll be a tough part of today, but let's start with good news which we need to celebrate when we have it, and we do today.
So today I'd like to share news of another great company growing here in Kentucky. Taica Cubic Printing Kentucky, in Winchester, provides cubic printing, paint application, and assembly services on substrates for tier one automotive suppliers. The company opened its Clark County facility less than a decade ago, but it's already become an important and critical part of that community. Taica’s initial investment in Winchester planned for the creation of 30 jobs at about $22 an hour, but to date, the company has created 44 jobs paying an average hourly wage of $26 an hour, and they're not finished growing yet. I am happy to share that Taica now plans to expand the Clark County operation with a $4.4M investment that's gonna create another 20 good paying jobs. Like many industries, it's been a difficult year for the automotive sector. So I am all that much happier to see the continued success of companies like Taica. Kentucky is home to more than 520 automotive suppliers that cover nearly every aspect of the industry. Taica's announcement today adds to the more than 100,000 Kentuckians employed by automotive related businesses. The industry's continued growth, and the creation of quality job opportunities with strong wages, will be crucial in our recovery from this pandemic, so the commitment of Taica and other auto suppliers to our state is greatly appreciated. So thank you to the leaders of Taica Cubic Printing Kentucky, and everyone who had a role in this expansion. And congratulations to Winchester and Clark County on the growth of a great company.
Today we also have some good news for Eastern Kentucky. I'm excited to announce a $450,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission's Distressed County Infrastructure Program to upgrade wastewater infrastructure in Middlesboro. The current system is 34 years old and frequently fails, requiring expensive repairs. Middlesboro will use the funding to update the main sewage lift station and address aging pumps at the wastewater treatment plant. Upon completion, the upgrades will save the city $17,000 annually in operation and maintenance expenses, and it's going to provide better wastewater service for 605 businesses and more than 4300 households. Clean drinking water is a basic human right and even in the midst of this pandemic this administration with our federal partners have been investing, especially in areas that haven't seen that steady supply of clean drinking water. We have put dollars upon dollars in Eastern Kentucky to try to correct a decades long failure to give people that basic human right of clean water. This is a big part of how we build stronger communities and prepare for our future post COVID. So congratulations to Middlesboro on the award and thank you to everybody who worked on it and made it possible. Because of your work I'm confident we'll build a stronger, better Kentucky.
Alright, this next one, I don't know if you all have seen the news on TV but it's a big one. So today, the Commonwealth is in an even stronger position to help Kentuckians as we emerged from this pandemic after the Kentucky Supreme Court reinstated an almost $1.3B award for the Commonwealth of Kentucky and a judgment against Pokerstars. That's right, $1.3B. The Supreme Court reinstated the Franklin circuit court judgement, concluding the Commonwealth decades long fight against illegal offshore internet gambling. This will never be enough to make up for the damage to Kentucky's families and the states from the years of irresponsible and criminal actions, but this is a good day for Kentucky. This better positions us to emerge from this painful pandemic to help Kentuckians, to help our businesses, to provide quality health care to more Kentuckians, to strengthen our public schools and keep our promises to educators and other public employees, some of whom have been on the front lines battling the fallout of this company's greed. I also want to congratulate J Michael Brown, my executive cabinet secretary, for bringing actions on behalf of the Commonwealth in 2008, in this matter when he was the secretary of the justice and public safety cabinet, under another Beshear, seeking to stop the unregulated untaxed and illegal offshore gambling operations that were operating in Kentucky. Once the Kentucky Supreme Court's opinion is final, the Commonwealth will take aggressive steps to collect the judgment or the benefits of all Kentuckians. And I'm going admin, Michael and I have both been lawyers for much of our career and coming into this job I'd had the good fortune of securing one of the larger verdicts in the last 20 years in Kentucky of 11.4M. Well I think Michael’s case just brought in 1.3 billion, so I think once again, he gets that first place prize but I'm continuing my best to try to learn as much as I can from him.
Alright, the Healthy at Home Eviction Relief Fund is closed to applications, we had to close it today at noon, and that's because we now have 396 completed applications. And that's going to grow as some tenants and landlords call in and complete their applications. Remember, we had $15M to help people to make sure they didn't get kicked out of their home, and to make sure that they didn't emerge from this pandemic with significant debt. We're going to spend all of those dollars, all $15M and we're going to help at least 3477 households, I think that number will be more like 3,700.
Alright, let's go to the best news we've been having recently, and that's vaccines. So yesterday we were happy to confirm all 11 of the hospitals that Kentucky set to receive the initial delivery of vaccines have confirmed their receipts. These hospitals included Pikeville Medical Center, Baptist Health in Madisonville, Corbin, and Louisville, as well as Mercy Health Lourdes in Paducah. Here are some of the pictures of our frontline heroes being vaccinated, with what I believe is a miracle, a 94-95% effective vaccine. And remember these folks are folks working on COVID wings, that go in every day knowing they could contract this virus but they want to help your loved one to make sure that they can get better. So here you can see the first vaccine, in Paducah being given to Dr. Bradley Albert Albertson, a physician double-certified in both internal medicine and pediatrics, let's watch (Video).
Alright. You see everybody clapping? I got to tell you there is a new energy amongst our frontline workers. Seeing how quickly this day came, and knowing that as we move into 2021, we are going to defeat this virus, we are going to win. We have to take care of each other until we get there. So, all these pictures you've been seeing which are truly amazing, and they ought to give you hope, you ought to stay vigilant, but they ought to give you hope in a second wind. Everything you're seeing right now as part of the first allocation that came to Kentucky, the week of December 13th through the 19th and that's our first 38,025 doses from Pfizer. About two thirds of that went to long term care and the rest, went to those 11 hospitals. So the new news today is Pfizer has confirmed a second shipment for next week of 27,300 doses. Now the majority of this, and I'll explain in a minute, is going to go to our long term care program. We're excited that a second shipment was finally confirmed, I will say that this is lower than we anticipated based on the first allocation. And we'll be watching that as we move forward because the speed at which we can vaccinate long term care, the speed at which we can get back to something like-normal depends on the amount of the vaccine that we get. And it's by and large out of our control, but I want to make sure that I am transparent when we receive numbers about what we'll get, and if they're changed on us. So that same week Moderna, we believe, will get the initial allocation of 76,700. The vast majority of that are going to acute-care hospitals, all over the Commonwealth so that every acute-care hospital that is treating COVID patients, either gets it to administer itself, or a partner hospital that's gotten all the way through the system, if the other one hasn't, we'll get their amount so that they can provide those vaccinations- but every acute-care hospital, we believe next week, will have a certain number of vaccines for their frontline healthcare workers, and then we believe that the week of December 27th-31st, we will get 33,800 more doses of Moderna.

This is just December and this, again, doesn't get us through our frontline healthcare workers or through long term care. So what we'll see is, in the very least, the first couple weeks of January, if not all of January, will still be going to those most at-need populations. So everybody stay patient. It's a wonderful day. We can see the end in sight. And it's also a little scary knowing how bad COVID is right now and there's a vaccine out there and and and you want it, especially during this most dangerous time. But those who are part of our healthcare capacity need it first so that they can be in that hospital, if one of your loved ones needs their help. And then those that are disproportionately dying- Long Term Care residents, which make up almost 66% of all deaths in Kentucky, again, need to come first. Now there's a lot of questions out there about who's next after this group. The answer is the federal government hasn't come to terms with that yet. I will show you in a minute some statements from the White House Task Force, especially as it comes to age. And if number one thing is to stop deaths in fighting COVID and how we distribute the vaccine, then age is the most effective manner at rolling out the vaccine if that is the ultimate goal.

So today we are also starting our vaccine campaign, so that we can provide information to Kentuckians and build their confidence in these amazing vaccines. So, there are a couple phases of the campaign.

First is education. There we want to assure awareness and public confidence about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.

Second, we want to ensure understanding of the phased rollout of the vaccine when that information is available. And that requires patience too.

Third, we want to help Kentuckians know that by visiting http://kyCOVID19.ky.gov/ they can get trusted information about the vaccine. There's going to be an update to our vaccine page and information there on Monday.

After the education phase of the vaccine campaign, comes the engagement phase, that's engaging with Kentuckians especially discreet population groups, through the correct channels to encourage commitment to taking this vaccine. Messaging will be shaped based on what we learned through community outreach efforts with black, Hispanic, and rural populations, specifically. What we learn in these discussions will help shape how we openly, honestly, and effectively communicate with those populations and ensure that there is an equitable rollout of this vaccine, that everybody gets protected; and that we not only provide the information but we provide it in the best way to get as many people protected as possible. Our goal for the campaign is to remind Kentuckians that no one likes the idea of getting a shot, but shots are just a small fact of life.

Why? Because a shot is and always has been the end of wondering what might happen. And this little shot does more than keep you from getting sick, it gets folks back to work, it gets your kids back in school, it gets our economy up and running again. It's the road to getting back to so many things that we enjoy. It's a shot of relief and a shot of hope.

The FDA authorized vaccines continue to arrive in Kentucky, all you have to do is do your part. We can all get the vaccine at once, and we'll all get a turn. You can find all the facts that http://kyCOVID19.ky.gov/

Alright, we're gonna run it again. So here's a look at our first general message advertisement that will be hitting the airwaves soon. It'll come with audio, when it does,

Video: It's just a little shot but the COVID-19 vaccine does more than keep you from getting sick. It will get folks back to work. Get our kids back at school. It's a shot of relief, of hope. All we have to do Kentucky is keep doing our part. We can't all get the vaccine at once, but we'll all get a turn. Get the facts, at http://kyCOVID19.ky.gov/

It's a lot better when we play it at the right time. So that's just the first of the messaging, as it will roll out. And that part of keep doing your part is so critical because we still have very high levels of COVID, it's still taking a lot of lives. In fact today I believe it's taken 54 lives. So let's keep doing our part to protect one another, until everybody gets a chance to get this vaccine, a shot at getting their shot.

I want to go over some of what the White House report this week. It says, first in their summary, the White House coronavirus Task Force sees what we're seeing in our numbers. That despite the nation escalating dangerously, we have seen a stability, that would be their way of saying a plateau, in new cases and a decrease in test positivity. That means we are doing better while the rest of the nation is doing worse. Here is what we showed in the map, just on Monday, that hospitals are reporting critical staffing shortages. We showed it more in ICU beds and how many are taken, but the state is managing. In other words, we're at a dangerous place but we are not over the tipping point yet. It's one of the reasons we're prioritizing the vaccine for our frontline health care workers but also why we need your help.

A couple of other points, they talk a little bit about the vaccine and their current thinking, especially as we get past the stage they're in. They ask us to ensure comprehensive analysis of next tier priority of vaccinations, understand immunization of individuals over 65 will have the greatest impact on hospitalizations and deaths. In other words, if we want to cut down our deaths as quickly as we can, after long term care, they're suggesting we look at Kentucky ages 65 and up. That'll reduce deaths and also create more hospital capacity for everybody else who might get sick. And then they give some pretty startling statistics if you haven't seen them for those over 70 with COVID infection. 20% or more that get the infection are admitted to the hospital, nearly 10% die. You’ve got to think for those are 70 this thing is 10 times more deadly than it is to the rest of the population. So this is advice from the White House Task Force and these are considerations they're asking us to take as we look at the next tier.

Also, a couple other warnings here, and significant warnings that at this point if you're over 65, or with a significant health condition, don't go to any indoor public space where anyone is unmasked. The White House now says that is an immediate threat to your health. So make sure you get groceries delivered, or have them have them brought to your car, and your medications delivered. That's where we are. If you're over 65, or you have one of these medical conditions, don't go to any place that is not enforcing a mask mandate for everybody inside. For those who continue to refuse to wear masks and want to be served in facilities, the White House is saying you are a deadly threat to anyone over that age. Please wear that mask when you go out. And if you're under 40 assume you became infected if you gather beyond your immediate household. Again, this is saying that we shouldn't get out with those outside of our household.

Again, a couple more that you can read here, but the final one warning about any gathering during December holiday. In other words, this Christmas, which is certainly one of my, if not my favorite, day of the year- do it with your immediate household. Do it with those that you live with. Remember what Christmas is about and remember the example that Jesus said and his teachings about caring for one another. Let's not do Christmas in a way that would dishonor loving our neighbor as ourselves. Let's make sure that we do the right thing over this holiday to protect those we love and all of those around us.

Positive cases today: 3,349 - Now that is a lot, but it is still less than last week

Probable cases: 828

Total confirmed cases: 234,021

Children Under 18: 372

New cases by county: 475x Jefferson, 178x Kenton, 171x Boone, 126x Fayette, 119x Campbell, 106x Pulaski, 103x Hardin, 94x Daviess, 86x Madison, 80x Warren, 70x Wayne, 57x Laurel, 57x McCracken, 57x Shelby, 56x Pike, 48x Oldham, 44x McCreary, 38x Russell, 37x Taylor, 34x Jessamine, 34x Perry, 33x Bell, 32x Christian, 32x Letcher, 32x Nelson, 31x Bullitt, 31x Lincoln, 30x Anderson, 28x Allen, 28x Graves, 28x Henderson, 28x Marion, 28x Marshall, 28x Rowan, 27x Mercer, 26x Boyle, 24x Clinton, 24x Grant, 24x Montgomery, 23x Logan, 23x Ohio, 22x Floyd, 21x Adair, 21x Scott, 21x Spencer, 20x Calloway, 20x Fleming, 20x Mason, 19x Boyd, 19x Carter, 19x Casey, 19x Trigg, 18x Franklin, 18x Meade, 18x Muhlenberg, 17x Woodford, 16x Martin, 16x Whitley, 15x Knox, 14x Clark, 14x Garrard, 14x Hopkins, 13x Barren, 13x Harlan, 13x Simpson, 13x Washington, 12x Clay, 12x Lawrence, 12x Pendleton, 11x Knott, 10x Carroll, 10x Monroe, 9x Harrison, 9x Larue, 9x Lee, 9x Morgan, 9x Rockcastle, 9x Todd, 8x Bath, 8x Greenup, 7x Cumberland, 7x Jackson, 7x Lyon, 7x Owen, 6x Bourbon, 6x Hart, 6x Henry, 6x Johnson, 6x McLean, 6x Trimble, 5x Butler, 5x Gallatin, 5x Green, 5x Nicholas, 5x Union, 5x Wolfe, 4x Breathitt, 4x Carlisle, 4x Edmonson, 4x Estill, 4x Hancock, 4x Leslie, 3x Breckinridge, 3x Fulton, 3x Grayson, 3x Powell, 3x Webster, 2x Bracken, 2x Caldwell, 2x Elliott, 2x Lewis, 2x Livingston, 2x Owsley, 1x Ballard, 1x Hickman, 1x Magoffin, 1x Metcalfe

Northern Kentucky has gotten hit hard. Pulaski County multiple days of high cases, but every single area in the state has multiple counties with 30 or more cases. Remember, it's everywhere.

Total tests conducted: 3,207,769 (PCR: 2,968,844, Serology: 99,173)

Positivity Rate: 8.45% - Our positivity rate it's down a little bit, but it's still pretty flat at 8.45%

Total hospitalized: 12,129

Currently hospitalized: 1,817 - Hospitalization up a little bit

Total in ICU: 2,830

Currently in ICU: 431

On a ventilator: 254

Total recovered: 33,666

New deaths today: 54

Total Deaths: 2,316

Alright, so our death report today is going to be one of the hardest since early on. It's by far the most people that we've lost. And remember that's a reflection of where this virus was about three weeks ago, and where it was trending because increase in deaths follow an increase in cases. More people get infected, a percentage of those will be hospitalized, and a percentage of those will die. So the more people who get infected the more people need to go to the hospital and the more people don't make it. I hope we don't have another day, where we have 54 deaths and this is going to be hard, because these are 54 families that need our help, and our compassion, and our green lights which is the color of compassion and renewal. They also need us to do better. Follow the rules to follow the restrictions because if you don't know someone who's been lost to COVID, someone close to you hasn't been lost to COVID, or someone close to someone you know then you're not listening. Because it has happened all over, Kentucky- far, far too much loss.

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64,158 Cases (+745), 1,137 Deaths (+13)
New cases by county: 124x Jefferson, 86x Fayette, 58x Christian, 39x Warren, 28x Barren, 23x Franklin, 23x Laurel, 18x Hardin, 16x Madison, 11x Bullitt, 11x Kenton, 10x Daviess, 10x Pulaski, 10x Woodford, 9x Estill, 9x Whitley, 8x Calloway, 8x Jackson, 8x Montgomery, 8x Muhlenberg, 7x Boyd, 7x Boyle, 7x Breckinridge, 7x Carter, 7x Letcher, 7x Marshall, 7x Meade, 7x Oldham, 6x Allen, 6x Harlan, 6x Knott, 6x Spencer, 5x Greenup, 5x Henderson, 5x Hopkins, 5x McCracken, 5x Pike, 5x Rowan, 5x Shelby, 5x Wayne, 4x Boone, 4x Caldwell, 4x Campbell, 4x Floyd, 4x Graves, 4x Logan, 4x McCreary, 4x Russell, 4x Union, 3x Clay, 3x Grayson, 3x Jessamine, 3x Lincoln, 3x Livingston, 3x Mercer, 3x Nelson, 3x Pendleton, 3x Simpson, 2x Anderson, 2x Bourbon, 2x Clark, 2x Elliott, 2x Hart, 2x Knox, 2x Lyon, 2x Metcalfe, 2x Morgan, 2x Scott, 2x Taylor, 2x Trimble, 1x Adair, 1x Ballard, 1x Cumberland, 1x Edmonson, 1x Fleming, 1x Fulton, 1x Garrard, 1x Grant, 1x Green, 1x Harrison, 1x Hickman, 1x Larue, 1x Lawrence, 1x Magoffin, 1x Marion, 1x Martin, 1x Owen, 1x Perry, 1x Powell, 1x Webster, 1x Wolfe
New deaths by county: 97 F Jefferson, 69 M Warren, 96 F Fayette, 82 M Perry, 97 M Warren, 88 M Warren, 84 F Warren, 62 F Warren, 97 F Bell, 94 F Warren, 89 F Warren, 86 F Christian, 90 F Jefferson
Alright, what do you think about including or not including University cases in considering community spread? -- You know I believe a university is a part of a community. Those kids go to restaurants, they go to bars, they go to different places in the community. Now, there is a challenge here, and it's one that we've got to discuss and it especially impacts where I went to school, Fayette County Public Schools. Right now, UK has so many cases that it may push Fayette County red, and if UK stays open and continues to have those amount of cases, they could potentially keep it red and then you've got Fayette County Public Schools saying “Wait. No, we need a, we need a community spread that our kids can go to school” that is a real issue. I talked to the superintendent about it the other day and we're continuing to have discussions. I talked to Mayor Gordon about it as well. And the answer, can't be “the university cases just don't count” because they are in the community. The question is how we can make sure we're taking the right steps so K-12 students don't miss out on opportunities because of other decisions. But this also makes us rise up, elevate our thinking, that it's more than just the institution or institutions we serve, it's the communities around us that can be impacted.
You have recently loosen some restrictions on visitations for long term care homes, is there any discussion about loosening in-person visitations for state inmates?-- The question is, given that we have loosened restrictions on visitation for long term care facilities, is their discussion on loosening it for inmates? There is discussion, it hasn't moved beyond any of those stages yet, so we don't have any step to announce, nor should it suggest that we're going to have a step to announce but it is being discussed, understanding that people very much especially in that situation rely on those personal interactions.
Governor, are you still looking at the release of your guidance on Trick or Treating by the end of the week? -- We are still working on releasing our guidance for Halloween. And, part of that's everything going on at the moment. But the other part is trying to find a safe way to do it, given the CDC said “don't do trick or treating at all.” And so we still want to give our kids an opportunity, and we're trying to figure out what that opportunity can be. You know, Halloween, I used to say my kids look forward to that 364 days a year, they're a little bit older now, I will again reiterate though- No adult parties, no block parties, that's something that we can't do and if you do that we can't try to create a trick or treating experience because then we brought even more people together in a close area.
The churches and civic groups that do those trunk or treating in parking lots. That would be ok? -- So one one option that we're looking at is to have civic groups do things outside in a way to where kids can get individually wrapped, you know bags would be better, if you think about it like some people give out birthday parties, at the end. And having our civic groups step up to do that in a safe way that they have really thought through, is one of the best ways we believe that that there could be that experience, but again we don't want to bring a whole bunch of people inside for it, either. COVID makes everything, not difficult but can make everything dangerous and it seems to attack the things that we like and love the most.
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Full Notes

Alright, It is 4pm, that time we provide our update on our battle against COVID-19, each and every day. Today, I'm representing the Caywood Comets, this is a school in the Kenton County School District. I know they are working to get back safely to the classroom. Now we're going to jump right into the report today, go pretty quickly open it up for questions.
Positive cases today: 745
Probable cases: 7,550
Total confirmed cases: 64,158
Children Under 18: 107 - Again, it seems like we are seeing a larger and larger and larger portion of positive cases being our young people.
New cases by county: 124x Jefferson, 86x Fayette, 58x Christian, 39x Warren, 28x Barren, 23x Franklin, 23x Laurel, 18x Hardin, 16x Madison, 11x Bullitt, 11x Kenton, 10x Daviess, 10x Pulaski, 10x Woodford, 9x Estill, 9x Whitley, 8x Calloway, 8x Jackson, 8x Montgomery, 8x Muhlenberg, 7x Boyd, 7x Boyle, 7x Breckinridge, 7x Carter, 7x Letcher, 7x Marshall, 7x Meade, 7x Oldham, 6x Allen, 6x Harlan, 6x Knott, 6x Spencer, 5x Greenup, 5x Henderson, 5x Hopkins, 5x McCracken, 5x Pike, 5x Rowan, 5x Shelby, 5x Wayne, 4x Boone, 4x Caldwell, 4x Campbell, 4x Floyd, 4x Graves, 4x Logan, 4x McCreary, 4x Russell, 4x Union, 3x Clay, 3x Grayson, 3x Jessamine, 3x Lincoln, 3x Livingston, 3x Mercer, 3x Nelson, 3x Pendleton, 3x Simpson, 2x Anderson, 2x Bourbon, 2x Clark, 2x Elliott, 2x Hart, 2x Knox, 2x Lyon, 2x Metcalfe, 2x Morgan, 2x Scott, 2x Taylor, 2x Trimble, 1x Adair, 1x Ballard, 1x Cumberland, 1x Edmonson, 1x Fleming, 1x Fulton, 1x Garrard, 1x Grant, 1x Green, 1x Harrison, 1x Hickman, 1x Larue, 1x Lawrence, 1x Magoffin, 1x Marion, 1x Martin, 1x Owen, 1x Perry, 1x Powell, 1x Webster, 1x Wolfe
Total tests conducted: 1,301,407 (PCR: 1,226,385, Serology: 52,994)
Positivity Rate: 4.57%
Total hospitalized: 5,119
Currently hospitalized: 543
Total in ICU: 1,499
Currently in ICU: 122
On a ventilator: 71
Total recovered: 11,570
New deaths today: 13
Total Deaths: 1,137
New deaths by county: 97 F Jefferson, 69 M Warren, 96 F Fayette, 82 M Perry, 97 M Warren, 88 M Warren, 84 F Warren, 62 F Warren, 97 F Bell, 94 F Warren, 89 F Warren, 86 F Christian, 90 F Jefferson
Toughest part of today's report: 13 new deaths. These are 13 individuals whose families will be mourning them. It's a hard number for any given day, 13 individuals, and note on here's a friend of mine from Northern Kentucky that I just learned about an hour and a half ago had passed away after a multi-month battle with COVID-19. Remember this virus is very real and it's still out there. So let's make sure that we light our homes up green. We ring those bells at 10am, and that we try to reach out to these families that may be needing help or other families that while they might not have had somebody passed away, may be suffering from food insecurity, you may be worried about a child in that household, there may be a domestic violence situation, let's make sure that we are thinking about what we can do for others who need our help at all times during this virus. This is a time that takes more compassion than any in my lifetime and that's with every challenge we face right now. So, let's remember that. We've got to listen to each other. We've got to help each other. And every day that we have a lot of cases, 745 today. We know that they're going to result in a lot of deaths. Thankfully, our mortality rate continues to creep down, but still higher the volume of the cases, the more Kentuckians we lose. So let's make sure we wear that mask, we socially distance, we cut our contacts down, we do what it takes.
Racial breakdown of all cases: 80.10% Caucasian, 11.88% Black or African-American, 1.62% Asian, 5.90% Multiracial
Ethnicity breakdown of all cases: 89.08% non-Hispanic and 10.92% Hispanic
Racial breakdown of all deaths: 83.27% Caucasian, 12.98% Black or African-American, 1.15% Asian, 2.60% Multiracial
Ethnicity breakdown of all deaths: 96.41% non-Hispanic and 3.59% Hispanic
Long Term Care Facilities (PDF): 40 new residents and 37 new staff positive from yesterday, and 14 more deaths, 3 new facilities.
- Total facilities: 332
- Total deaths: 647
- Active cases: 573 residents, 421 staff
- Total cases: 4171 residents, 2754 staff
K-12 Update (PDF): 166 new students and 59 new faculty/staff positive from yesterday, 177 new schools.
- Total facilities: 527
- Active cases: 577 students, 288 faculty/staff
- Total cases: 956 students, 342 faculty/staff
K-12 schools, a big jump here as you all know, I think we have close to seven high school football teams that are under quarantine multiple other sports, we are seeing a significant number of cases, some that we wouldn't have known about but for a different injury. You can get our full report online, remember it is behind the news that you would get. And coming up on Monday is when every school has to report to that dashboard that will go live on that Monday with a school having to update that every day so people should be able to get, not in real time, but every day, an update of what the situation is in their school, and in surrounding schools
University Update (PDF): 33 new students and 0 new faculty/staff positive from yesterday, 8 new facilities
- Total facilities: 58
- Active cases: 1395 students, 45 faculty/staff
- Total cases: 2919 students, 84 faculty/staff
Before we open it up for questions. one I mentioned, the two LMPD officers last night that were shot. They are LMPD major Aubrey Gregory, he has been released from the hospital, I got a chance to talk to him personally last night. He was surrounded by family and friends, he's going to have a full recovery at least to my knowledge. The other is officer Robin, and I think it's this Desroches? and I apologize to him if I mispronounced his last name- he is stable and recovering, I talked to his mom last night- during a period where they were still working to ensure his stability. I want to condemn this act of violence in the most stark terms, it is absolutely wrong. And the answer to violence can never be violence. And we want to make sure that these individuals that were out there last night and will be out there again tonight are safe. And we need to ensure that any type of activity or demonstrations remain non-violent and remain peaceful. We have to understand just one person can mar something that otherwise is done the right way. And that means we need to make sure those around us are also doing things the right way.
Alright. With that, we'll open it up to, to questions started over here yesterday I think Shelby we'll start with you.

QUESTIONS

President Trump tweeted and said he spoke to you, can you give us some insight into the conversation with him? -- Right. So, last night after I learned of the injuries to our two law enforcement officers I returned to the Capital where I was here for several hours ensuring that they were okay, that we had the situation under control. Talked to the Mayor, talked to the Chief of Police, talked to one of the individuals that had been shot and then the family members of the other, also talked to the President of the United States, who initiated the call. His comments were that it appeared that we had things under control. He did make an offer, if at a later point we needed additional assistance, he would provide it. But, he stated and I agree that at this time we have appropriate levels of law enforcement or peacekeepers there, and that if necessary, we have the ability on the state level, to increase that level of support. It was a good call. I appreciate him, making it.
For tonight, what is the level of National Guard troops that are available in Louisville? -- The question is, how are we preparing for tonight? What's the number of National Guard troops in Louisville? We're not going to disclose the number, that's part of the operational security of those individuals, we will again be conducting limited missions, that are there for public safety and to protect critical infrastructure, like our hospitals. We will adjust accordingly to ensure our people are safe and we can keep other people safe. I want to say again that presence is in no way intended to stifle people's first amendment rights to give voice to any anger, frustration; but it is there to both keep people safe and ensure things, like our hospitals, can continue to operate when last night they were absolutely needed for these two officers and for those that might be suffering from COVID, or other injuries. It's important that those that do want to give voice, and do want to do that outside and in Louisville, do so before the curfew. And I would ask everyone to respect that curfew, the curfew is being applied to anyone that is out, I know that it was applied last night to one of the militia groups that showed up as well. And remember that those and other groups are also in the city, and I'm not sure it's them but there are always individuals that might want to turn something that is peaceful into something that's not, that may just like everybody, including law enforcement and demonstrators, and we got to make sure that that that that we don't allow that to happen. And that does take a sufficient presence, which will be out tonight.
You have recently loosen some restrictions on visitations for long term care homes, is there any discussion about loosening in-person visitations for state inmates?-- The question is, given that we have loosened restrictions on visitation for long term care facilities, is their discussion on loosening it for inmates? There is discussion, it hasn't moved beyond any of those stages yet, so we don't have any step to announce, nor should it suggest that we're going to have a step to announce but it is being discussed, understanding that people very much especially in that situation rely on those personal interactions.
Governor, given the indictment yesterday, does this give you any more impetus to equip the KSP with the body cameras?-- Now the question is, given the indictments yesterday. Is it any more impetus for KSP and body cameras? I mean that's a question we absolutely have to address, as we see more and more law enforcement out there wearing them. We've got to talk with the Kentucky State Police about it, I believe that body cameras can protect an officer, or in this case it would be a trooper, as much as anything else. I can tell you, aside from some of these tragic situations where body camera footage is needed just to know what happened, in many instances there can be complaints against an officer or trooper that if you have the body camera footage, you can dismiss them pretty quickly. Remember these sometimes are heated exchanges and sometimes having the video with that officer being professional, which is almost always the case, can be very helpful. The other thing that it can be is a tool, whereby supervisors can ensure that people are following the training they've had. I remember being in Washington DC for a national Attorney General's Association meeting and the then chief of the DC police, she talked about how she would take that footage home and watch it and see that there were instances- She talked about one domestic violence situation where one of the officers turned their back. Now, that wasn't anything between the individuals, but could have compromised their safety. And so it was a check on different ways that she thought that she could use to improve the department. I am for body cameras where appropriate, there are some instances where I don't think that they would be, based on the particular mission of that individual unit.
I want to ask about some comments you made on MSNBC earlier today in regards to your request for the Attorney General to publish more information about the Breonna Taylor investigation online. You said the release of those details wouldn't impact the federal civil rights investigation. How is that possible to not impact that investigation by making some of those details public? -- So today, the question is on one of the cable news shows, I talked about how I believe that the Attorney General can release the information from his criminal investigation, without impacting the federal civil rights investigation. I believe that there are very different investigations that set out to determine very different things, I don't think a ballistics report, for instance, is going to have an impact on a civil rights investigation. And if they believe that it does, I think that that the federal prosecutors can come forward and explain the specifics of that; but at this point with the Attorney General saying he is not pursuing certain things, then I believe it makes it appropriate to provide the facts, the information, the evidence, and It's about trusting the people of Kentucky. I trust them, that if they have all the facts, the evidence, and maybe some explanation, if needed, that they can process it. And I know the Attorney General talks about the truth, and I talk about the truth, I think we ought to let the people of Kentucky see all of that, evaluate, and come to the truth. I believe that it is fully appropriate to do at this point in time, I've been a prosecutor, I withheld judgment on that until we've reached the stage but at this point, put it all online. Put everything that would not impact, now there has been one indictment with three charges in it, put everything online that wouldn't impact that and that's really about apparently shooting into a different apartment building, and let people see it, and it's been done in other places. It was done several months later in Ferguson; it's been done by other prosecutors; it's an attempt to be transparent. And I've seen firsthand, that when you are willing to be transparent with the people of Kentucky, they will look at the information, they will try to understand the decisions you've made, they may disagree, but at least it's not a vacuum, where different emotions, or theories, or others can come into play. I'm sorry we made you wait, is it John? Okay, welcome.
I had a question for you about coronavirus: cases are higher now than earlier in pandemic when we've had more severe restrictions. But over the past two months those restrictions have been rolled back a little bit. So, I'm just curious to know, you know what would it take for you to include new restrictions for the things like public gatherings and things that you had earlier? -- So the question is with us now being at a higher level of total cases than we were earlier, but obviously we've gotten better at treating when we look at it, we also follow our hospital data, and right now I would say we are at a place where we can handle more cases than previously. We're also testing more to find more people who have it and that's a good thing, but you are right and that with loosening restrictions, that means people have more contacts, and we will see the virus spread more. What it would take for me to implement new restrictions would be what we saw when we had to cut restaurants for a period of time, and bars, and that is a proof of, or indications of, a real escalation. And not something that might be, you know, kind of up and down- and remember, our plateaus aren't entirely flat, and not something just very gradual where it'll take a couple weeks to see, but if we started seeing what looked like an escalation especially one, that looks like it could turn into a severe escalation like we saw in Florida and Arizona, once you start seeing that curve, that's when we would take additional action, that's when the White House would ask us to take additional action. And they're keeping track like we are, we use somewhat different data but we're in about the same place right now in that, mainly what we need people to do is be a little bit better, more people wearing the mask [holds up mask] and the white house again says we not only should have a mask mandate but I should be encouraging it every day, engaging in that social distancing, and remember, moderation, and not moderation like we had before March, but moderation in, on the same day if you're going to work, and going to the gym, and going to dinner that's just too many contacts. We got to spread them out. And make sure that those gatherings, which we still have that 10 person limit, we keep at that level. We do see a lot of spread and those. It's not necessarily backyard barbecue but it's house parties and as it gets colder and people drive inside that's going to be more important than ever.
So many parents are at home helping their children with virtual school but history is unfolding outside. How can they explain what is happening to their children? -- The question is with so many kids at home but history going on outside, how do they explain what's happening to their children? First, I was worried I was going to be a little late, because I was dealing with sixth grade geometry, with my son Will. Being governor doesn't stop your obligations, nor your duty as a parent. And boy, we certainly appreciate our teachers, when we're asked to step up and take a bigger role. I think that parents need to be able to have age-appropriate conversations with their children, and that they ought to be based in values, about the type of world that we think we should have, about true dignity for all people, about the fact that I believe that God calls on us to build a world that is free of inequities and oppression and racism. And then need to be able to talk to their kids about our country's history and the fact that we have had to make changes and take strides and many points in our history, and right now that we're being called on to do more. You know it's a conversation with what's going on there and also with what's going on in COVID-19 that's going to shape so much. But I'd like to think that every challenge gives us an opportunity to build a better day, and maybe to raise better people. Part of that calls on us to recognize what we're living through, both the pandemic and calls for a more equitable society, and then to make sure we're instilling the right values in our kids. And I just remind people, because I have to remind myself, that our kids are always listening, and my kids are always hiding behind the door listening to everything. And so, we got to really make sure in our heart and in our mind, we're not just saying the right things, but we believe them. And if we start feeling ways that we think “Wait a minute, I shouldn't” I mean that's the time that we're called on to be a little better. And so much of what we see, because we are inside, is on Facebook and Twitter which, I mean, it's turned into poison in so many ways, let's remember that if we're writing something down that contains hate or anger or making enemies out of one another, our kids are gonna read that one day too. And maybe if we write it, we ought to look at it, we outta realize that we need to change too, and be a little better, and maybe we just need to turn it off entirely.
Alright, what do I think about including or not including University cases in considering community spread? -- You know I believe a university is a part of a community. Those kids go to restaurants, they go to bars, they go to different places in the community. Now, there is a challenge here, and it's one that we've got to discuss and it especially impacts where I went to school, Fayette County Public Schools. Right now, UK has so many cases that it may push Fayette County red, and if UK stays open and continues to have those amount of cases, they could potentially keep it red and then you've got Fayette County Public Schools saying “Wait. No, we need a, we need a community spread that our kids can go to school” that is a real issue. I talked to the superintendent about it the other day and we're continuing to have discussions. I talked to Mayor Gordon about it as well. And the answer, can't be “the university cases just don't count” because they are in the community. The question is how we can make sure we're taking the right steps so K-12 students don't miss out on opportunities because of other decisions. But this also makes us rise up, elevate our thinking, that it's more than just the institution or institutions we serve, it's the communities around us that can be impacted.
What’s your reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling that historical corporations are gambling devices are essentially no different than slot machines and illegal. -- The Supreme Court today ruled that certain types of instant racing games are not parimutuel, and therefore, I believe that they believe that they were unlawful. I will tell you that I believe that decision, while not criticizing the legal aspects of it, not having analyzed it, is devastating for so many Kentucky jobs, for the horse industry, and for the budget, the state budget, which it adds about $21M to every year and that's growing. So, I've already begun discussions with various partners about finding a path forward. We've now had this in the Commonwealth for several years, we have not seen the ills that people claim would come from it, coming from it. There is widespread gaming, much more than this over just about every single one of our borders right now. If it's going to take a legislative change we need to make the legislative change to keep our horse industry competitive but to keep our Commonwealth competitive. Listen, we need a lot more types of gaming to compete with those around us. I mean, Indiana, using our money to build the roads, and other states around us, Missouri, they can pay for their health care costs. And in this period of COVID-19, revenue from those sources, for the most part, hasn't gone down or not nearly as much once things reopened. And so we're gonna find ourselves at not being competitive in what is otherwise a free market that's out there. And so I hope that we will get the necessary changes to move forward, and when we make them, I hope that maybe we can make a lot more.
Jesse Jackson just called for athletes to boycott the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville, and other economic boycotts in Louisville over the grand jury not deciding How do you respond to that? -- I'm told that Jesse Jackson has asked athletes to boycott UK/UofL because of the grand jury decision. I respect Reverend Jackson, but they didn't have any control, UK or UofL, over what the grand jury did. I believe that they are trying, through programs and efforts, to build a better world. And so while I very much respect Reverend Jackson, I don't agree with a boycott of those that have had no control over this. Now, what I do think we ought to do is see all the information. I think the Attorney General can post it online, if he if there is some that needs to be held back because of the one indictment then that's a discussion and an explanation he can provide, but it's time to give the information. And I think that if he did this call for a boycott wouldn't have happened yet because I think everybody would be sitting down, and would be trying to process the true facts and evidence that's out there, and I think everybody benefits from the truth.
Governor Holcomb in Indiana has issued an order that beginning Saturday, all restaurants and bars can fully open in Indiana. Do you have anything that's, you know, in the works for our bars and restaurants here in Kentucky? -- So I haven't seen, it's apparently an order from Holcomb further opening bars and restaurants, that's something I'll have to talk to him about. With us just about to start opening schools, we've got to get that done first concern, or any other capacities.
Let's see this is wanting a response to this quote about AG releasing more info: “We appreciate governor Beshear’s team providing assistance to our office in the Commonwealth over the last few days in preparation for yesterday's announcement. However, releasing that information would compromise the federal investigation and violate a prosecutor, prosecutors ethical duties.” -- We did work well with the attorney general's office in communication leading up to it. I don't have an argument there. I've tried not to criticize the other parts, having not seen the file myself, but I've been a prosecutor, and I've been in that role and if you are no longer pursuing those charges there is not a duty, there is not a jury, that you could compromise. There is no criminal investigation there that you can compromise and so I do not think there can be a violation of those duties. I'm not the only one in my office, I have the former Deputy Attorney General and a former district judge, and he agrees too. I just, I don't agree with, with that view other prosecutors have done it. Let's just put it out there and let people see it.
Do you feel like the nine o'clock curfew is actually effective at minimizing the tension in Louisville in regards to the protests that are happening out there. -- The question is on the 9pm curfew in Louisville, and I think it’s necessary. I know a lot of people may not like it but as we see that the nights go further along there is just more of an opportunity for, for those that would want to incite violence, or take advantage of an opportunity, and I believe that it's necessary. But remember, it applies to everybody. And so for instance, these groups that claim that they are keeping the peace that are heavily armored, walking around Louisville with, what I understand is, no tactical training at all, and no specific mission, it makes them go home too. And from somebody that has dealt with them firsthand I think then going home is a really good idea. I just don't think that they ought to show up in Louisville, in the first place.
We mentioned schools just now and I wanted to ask, are we still on track to have the successful real thing that you're envisioning and are there any trends that could put that at risk that you guys have spotted? -- (Can we, if we do have the incident map for today, James if we don't, that's okay.) Every day we update our incident rate map on http://kyCOVID19.ky.gov/. What that shows is we have many counties that are in the yellow, or the green, that are we think in a good position to start some in-person class activities. We have others in the orange that need to be careful. And small groups would be best, a hybrid model after that. And then we have those in the red- that I do not think should be starting in person class and if they are in in-person class, they ought to move to virtual until they can move out of the red. I believe that in many places there can be a successful reopening but what a successful reopening is in COVID doesn't look like what it did before. It's our kids in masks all day long, because that's going to be required to lessen the spread, it's going to be fewer kids in a classroom, it may be them not being there as many hours of the day. But it is more direct interaction with their teachers, which we know is important. But the other thing is we got to be fluid, and we got to be flexible. We have seen, as we've been here, that there are counties that will have very few cases and then boom, you know 60, 90, 100 in just a couple days or over a week. And so we got to understand that you could even be in the green or in the yellow and by this time next week you could be in the red and you got to be prepared to move from that in-person back to NTI and then come back again. The two things we got to continue to defeat this virus is to be strong, to have the endurance to do this, as long as it takes. But number two, to be flexible, and knowing the conditions on the ground in your county, and your area can change really quickly so we've got to be able to change our approach.
I'll do one more set if you all have them, let's see, Did I respond to the President's offer for federal assistance to respond to the protests? -- The president and I agreed that right now we had sufficient assets, didn't need that help, and again, it was a positive conversation about what was already in place.
Last week, nursing homes were given federal guidelines saying they could resume indoor visits, and now if they're in a red zone, that county’s in a red cell, how does that affect them? Who do they follow the state or federal?-- On nursing home visits, The or long term care facilities, they have to follow the state guidelines that have been put out there. We think that they are very reasonable following the incident rate map as well. And I think it also allows our communities to know how safe or unsafe, it could be. You know, just because someone tells you you can do something, sometimes you shouldn't do something and this also gives more information to two family members. I know so many Kentuckians that will choose not to go see somebody in-person at different times because they love them. And that's a hard thing to grasp that you wouldn't see somebody in person because you love them, but you don't want to have even that potential of exposing them, depending on what you do. And you might want to think about it, depending on on your regular day and how many people you come into contact with. If you've got a job that has significant contact with other people, again you might want to be more careful.

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I live in Georgia and the furthest west I've ever been in the US is Dallas. After doing a ton of international travel this past year, I decided my domestic tourism should catch up. So of course, I'm doing a road trip. The plan is to take my motorcycle, but I may just drive my car if I decide the bike is too risky for such a long trip. Here's my itinerary so far. If I'm missing any really good stops (I don't mind a several-hour detour!) or if any of the stops I listed aren't that worthwhile, suggestions are more than welcome.
East to West:

Atlanta, GA
Memphis, TN
Little Rock, AR
Tulsa or OKC? Haven't decided yet. Halp
Amarillo, TX (mainly for the Cadillac Ranch and Palo Duro)
Santa Fe, NM
Albuquerque, NM (Planning to drive around the city finding all the Breaking Bad filming locations)
Monument Valley (if it's open)
Flagstaff, AZ
Sedona, AZ
Grand Canyon if it's open
Pheonix? Maybe too hot and too out of the way
Vegas (Not a gambling person but I've played the shit out of Fallout New Vegas and I really wanna see some of the places in real life)
Death Valley, CA
Los Angeles, CA
San Diego, CA
Pacific Coast Highway (not really a "stop" but definitely something I wanna see)
Redwood forests
San Francisco, CA

West to East:

San Francisco, CA
Sacramento, CA
Reno, NV (?)
Salt Lake City, UT
Zion (if it's open)
Grand Junction, CO (?)
Denver, CO
St. Louis, MO
Louisville, KY (?)
Lexington KY (?)
Nashville, TN
Home

This trip will probably happen in a month or so, if things get better. Either way though, I'll probably be avoiding human contact and just touring cities and stuff on my motorcycle.

Here's a complete list of prospects the Kings have worked out in preparation for Thursday's draft. Players who are projected to get drafted will be bolded. I will further discuss these players at the bottom. Skip to there if you want to see them.

1st Workout:

Armoni Brooks (G – 6’3” 195 lbs.) Houston
Jon Axel Gudmundsson (G – 6’4” 190 lbs.) Davidson
Xavier Sneed (F – 6’5” 210 lbs.) Kansas State
Yoeli Childs (F – 6’8” 225 lbs.) BYU
Reggie Perry (C – 6’8” 239 lbs.) Mississippi State
Kevin Samuel (C – 6’11” 250 lbs.) TCU

2nd Workout:

Jalen Pickett (G – 6’4” 180 lbs.) Siena
Andrew Nembhard (G – 6’4” 192 lbs.) Florida
Aubrey Dawkins (G – 6’7” 204 lbs.) UCF
Lamar Stevens (F – 6’8” 226 lbs.) Penn State
Isaiah Roby (F – 6’8.5” 215 lbs.) Nebraska
Mamadi Diakite (C – 6’9” 228 lbs.) Virginia

3rd Workout:

Chris Clemons (G – 5’9” 186 lbs.) Campbell
Payton Pritchard (G – 6’2” 206 lbs.) Oregon
Ethan Thompson (G – 6’5” 178 lbs.) Oregon State
VJ King (F – 6’7” 190 lbs.) Louisville
Femi Olujobi (F – 6’9” 258 lbs.) DePaul
Nathan Knight (C – 6’10” 247 lbs.) William & Mary

4th Workout:

Myles Powell (G – 6’2” 195 lbs.) Seton Hall
Amir Hinton (G – 6’5” 190 lbs.) Shaw University
Jalen Hudson (G – 6’5” 195 lbs.) Florida
Nick Weiler-Babb (G – 6’5” 206 lbs.) Iowa State
Marques Bolden (C – 6’11” 252 lbs.) Duke
Tacko Fall (C – 7’7” 289 lbs.) UCF (hell nah)

5th Workout"

Anthony Cowan (G – 6’0” 170 lbs.) Maryland
Barry Brown (G – 6’2” 193 lbs.) Kansas State
Alpha Diallo (G – 6’7” 211 lbs.) Providence
Amir Coffey (G – 6’8” 197 lbs.) Minnesota
Robert Franks Jr. (F – 6’7” 240 lbs.) Washington State
Dedric Lawson (F – 6’8.5” 233 lbs.) Kansas

6th Workout:

Alex Robinson (G – 6’1” 176 lbs.) TCU
Justin Wright-Foreman (G – 6’1” 185 lbs.) Hofstra
Justin James (G – 6’7” 183 lbs.) Wyoming
Jaylen Hoard (F – 6’9” 213 lbs.) Wake Forest
Dean Wade (F – 6’10” 225 lbs.) Kansas State
Bennie Boatwright (F – 6’10” 232 lbs.) USC

7th Workout:

Ky Bowman (G – 6’1” 189 lbs.) Boston College
Justin Robinson (G – 6’2.5” 181 lbs.) Virginia Tech
Brandon Randolph (G – 6’5” 179 lbs.) Arizona
Marial Shayok (F – 6’5.5” 197 lbs.) Iowa State
Donta Hall (C – 6’10” 221 lbs.) Alabama
Josh Sharma (C – 7’0” 233 lbs.) Stanford

8th Workout:

Frankie Ferrari (G – 6’1” 188 lbs.) San Francisco
Josh Perkins (G – 6’3” 188 lbs.) Gonzaga
Zach Norvell (G – 6’5.5” 206 lbs.) Gonzaga
Charlie Brown (G – 6’7” 200 lbs.) St. Joseph’s
Dewan Hernandez (F – 6’10” 233 lbs.) Miami
Harry Froling (C – 6’11” 250 lbs.) Adelaide 36ers

9th Workout:

Jonathan Davis (G – 6’2” 195 lbs.) Charlotte
Fletcher Magee (G – 6’4.5” 195 lbs.) Wofford
Kouat Noi (F – 6’7” 205 lbs.) TCU
Kris Wilkes (F – 6’8” 209 lbs.) UCLA
Devontae Cacok (C – 6’8” 230 lbs.) UNC Wilmington
Jessie Govan (C – 6’11” 268 lbs.) Georgetown

10th Workout:

Glynn Watson (G – 6’0” 175 lbs.) Nebraska
Jon Elmore (G – 6’3” 190 lbs.) Marshall
Justin Simon (G – 6’5” 205 lbs.) St. John’s
Terry Harris (G – 6’6” 213 lbs.) North Carolina A&T
Zach Hankins (C – 6’11” 245 lbs.) Xavier
Kavell Bigby-Williams (C – 6’11” 249 lbs.) LSU

11th Workout:

Jordan Bone (G – 6’3” 179 lbs.) Tennessee
Terence Davis (G – 6’4.5” 192 lbs.) Mississippi
Brian Bowen (G – 6’7.5” 200 lbs.) Sydney Kings
Zylan Cheatham (F – 6’8” 217 lbs.) Arizona State
Trey Mourning (C – 6’9” 222 lbs.) Georgetown
Chris Silva (C – 6’10” 227 lbs.) South Carolina

12th Workout:

Kyle Guy (G – 6’2” 168 lbs.) Virginia
BJ Taylor (G – 6’2” 200 lbs.) UCF
John Konchar (G – 6’5” 200 lbs.) IPFW
Jaren Lewis (G – 6’6” 215 lbs.) Abilene Christian
Jakeenan Gant (F – 6’7” 200 lbs.) Louisiana Lafayette
Nick Mayo (F – 6’8.5” 242 lbs.) Eastern Kentucky

13th Workout:

Marcquise Reed (G – 6’3” 184 lbs.) Clemson
Shaq Buchanan (G – 6’3” 190 lbs.) Murray State
Bryce Brown (G – 6’3” 199 lbs.) Auburn
Frank Howard (G – 6’5” 205 lbs.) Syracuse
Juwan Morgan (F – 6’8.5” 239 lbs.) Indiana
Aric Holman (F – 6’10” 210 lbs.) Mississippi State

14th Workout:

Josh Reaves (G – 6’5” 204 lbs.) Penn State
Cody Martin (G – 6’6” 192 lbs.) Nevada
Skyler Flatten (G – 6’6” 210 lbs.) South Dakota State
Tyus Battle (G – 6’7” 204 lbs.) Syracuse
Isaiah Pineiro (F – 6’6” 221 lbs.) San Diego
Cam Jackson (F – 6’9” 256 lbs.) Wofford

15th Workout:

Rickey McGill (G – 6’2” 185 lbs.) Iona
Jeremiah Martin (G – 6’3” 186 lbs.) Memphis
Ar’Mond Davis (G – 6’6” 190 lbs.) UC Santa Barbara
Jalen McDaniels (F – 6’10” 192 lbs.) San Diego State
Simisola Shittu (F – 6’10” 227 lbs.) Vanderbilt
Christ Koumadje (C – 7’4” 274 lbs.) Florida State

16th Workout:

Jalen Adams (G – 6’3” 197 lbs.) UConn
Quinndary Weatherspoon (G – 6’4” 207 lbs.) Mississippi State
Shaqquan Aaron (F – 6’7” 175 lbs.) USC
Markis McDuffie (F – 6’8” 202 lbs.) Wichita State
Jordan Caroline (F – 6’6” 240 lbs.) Nevada
Dylan Osetkowski (C – 6’9” 261 lbs.) Texas

17th Workout:

Rayjon Tucker (G – 6’5” 210 lbs.) Little Rock
Jaylen Hands (G – 6’3” 181 lbs.) UCLA
Shamorie Ponds (G – 6’1” 180 lbs.) St. John’s
Miye Oni (F – 6’6” 210 lbs.) Yale
Kenny Wooten (F – 6’9” 220 lbs.) Oregon
Daulton Hommes (F – 6’8” 215 lbs.) Point Loma Nazarene
Isaiah Roby: Good defender with nice physical attributes. Shows versatility on the defensive end. Athletic and can finish strong, should slide in as a good all around role player. Seems to lack assertiveness on offense though, shot 33% from 3 on just under 3 attempts per game, as well as 67.7% from the line. Should go early 2nd round.
Tacko Fall: Look, you guys know how I feel about Tacko Fall. I don't think he has anything close to NBA skill and I've yet to hear a good argument for how he can make an impact on an NBA court. So if anyone wants to make that argument I'm all ears.
Dedric Lawson: This one may be a stretch, as he very well could go undrafted. Anyway, despite playing well for Kansas, Lawson is widely regarded as one of the worst athletes in the draft. Lacks speed and agility to create separation on offense and also stay in front on defense. This obviously limits his upside severely. He is however a very good shooter and scorer, averaged 19.4 ppg and shot 39% from 3 on 2.7 attempts per game. Likely gets a shot as a two-way guy.
Zach Norvell: Shooter who was a big part of this year's great Gonzaga team. Can shoot both off the catch and dribble, shot 37% on 8.3 attempts a game, as well as 87% from the line. Doesn't do a ton outside of shooting and lacks creativity creating shots. Can also be streaky and inconsistent shooting the ball and will disappear for spurts. Should go mid 2nd round.
Zylan Cheatham: I like Cheatham for his versatility and sleeper potential. He's a great defender who goes hard all the time. 6'8" with a 7'0" wingspan and is very strong. Great rebounder with 10.3 rpg. Has 2 way ability switching on defense as well as handling/creating on offense. However he has bad mechanics on his jumpshot, shot 44% from 3 on only 0.7 attempts, as well as 62% from the line. Career 30% shooter from college 3. Could go late 2nd round or undrafted. Kevin O'Connor has him ranked #24 overall.
Cody Martin: Martin is a nice ball handler and PNR initiator, primary playmaker for a great Nevada team last year. Has size (6'6") and length (6'10" wingspan) for his play style. Seems steady and doesn't make too many mistakes. Isn't very athletic and he and his twin brother Caleb (who has likely fallen out of the 2nd round) are older for their class and have unique shooting mechanics, though Cody shot 36% from 3 on 2.9 attempts per game. Likely to go mid-late 2nd round.
Jalen McDaniels: Not really a fan of McDaniels, he's long and athletic, but still didn't dominate the weak Mountain West as much as you'd hope/expect. A guy like him should absolutely be able to put up over 20 ppg. Also shot 32% from 3 on 2.6 attempts. Not very efficient or versatile as he likes the midrange. Still, he's 6'9" and can handle and score, so he shows upside as a scoring option at the next level. Good rebounder (8.3rpg) for his position. He is however 192 lbs and seriously needs to bulk up or he'll get bullied. Plus there's the disturbing legal troubles he's involved in....Projected for mid 2nd round.
Shamorie Ponds: All around PG who projects to be a spark plug at the next level. Averaged 20/4/5 at St. John's as well as 2.6 steals. Has good vision and can create in the PNR. Shot 35% from 3 on 5.7 attempts, as well as 84% from the line. Has tendencies to overdribble and force shots, as well as gamble on the defensive end, all of which won't fly at the NBA level. Should go mid 2nd round.
Miye Oni: I'll be honest I don't know much at all about this dude. 6'6" with a 6'11" wingspan, strong frame. Went to Yale. Seems to be a solid decision maker with his passes, as well as a solid defender with good quickness to go with his strength. Carried the offensive load for Yale, averaged 17/6/3.6 and shot 37% from 3 on 6.1 attempts. Should go very late in the 2nd round.
This breaks down just the guys the Kings worked out in Sacramento, so don't be surprised if we select someone off of this list with one of our 2nds, or even if we move up into the 1st. There will be other names in play.
tldr: nah

I cannot speak for everyone, but I know that when I sit around on my ass watching reruns of “The Deadliest Warrior”, I expect absolute historical accuracy. Imagine my shock and dismay when the various weapons were introduced for a legendary donnybrook between the Mafia and the Yakuza.
The Yakuza in question, dated to 1947, are equipped with nunchaku (close range), a Walther P38 (mid-range), a Sten (long range), sai (special weapons), and ceramic grenades (explosives). The Mafia, dated to 1929, are equipped with a baseball bat (close range), a sawed-off shotgun (mid-range), a Tommy gun (long range), an ice pick (special), and a Molotov cocktail (explosive). Even setting aside the bad history inherent to calling such an explosive a “Molotov cocktail”, as the term for such a weapon didn’t come into usage until around 1940, the specs on one major weapon are a bit off.
Beginning at 20:09, the baseball bat is described as being three feet long, weighing in at two pounds, and being made of ash or maple wood. The design is pretty simple: the wood flairs down from the knob to the handle, then consistently tapers back out all the way to the end of the barrel. In other words, standard baseball bat specs.
For as long as there has been baseball, there have been bats used to strike the ball with. Being able to hit a baseball is kind of important for players, unless you're Rey Ordonez. In the early days, hitters would either whittle or carve their own bats from a single piece of wood. This changed in 1884, when a 17-year-old boy in Louisville named John ("Bud") Hillerich was watching a game featuring the hometown Louisville Eclipse. Star outfielder Pete Browning broke his bat, and Hillerich suggested that his father’s woodworking shop could produce a better and more durable one. That night, Hillerich and Browning picked out a piece of white ash wood, and Hillerich turned it into a suitable bat for professional use. Browning had been mired in a hitting slump, but went three-for-three the next day with his new bat. He told his teammates, and within a generation bat manufacturing had forever removed the need for players to create their own bats.
This mirrored what we see in professional sports and nearly all walks of life: success breeding imitation. Professional players could test out all sorts of pre-made options and find out what worked best for them, and the consistency of quality from trained woodworkers meant that players all the way down into childhood could swing a bat made just like their heroes. Hillerich may have made the first true professional model, but he was far from the only skilled woodworker with a love of the game. By the time the 19th century turned into the 20th, sporting goods manufacturers across the country were producing bats with their logos on them.
Remember, though, that success breeds imitation, and the growth of sports journalism gave a new venue for successful hitters to share what made them successful. And the best hitters in the professional ranks were usually more than happy to talk about their bats. Sure, they’d all be somewhere between 33” and 36” long, but the weights usually would vastly exceed the 33-ounce featherweights that we see today. Edd Roush, a lifetime .323 hitter and two-time batting champion, swung a 48-ounce bat. Even today, 90 years after his retirement, his game-used bats still weigh in at around or more than 40 ounces. One auctioned earlier this year that still tipped the scales at a hefty 43 ounces. Frank “Home Run” Baker swung a 52-ounce monstrosity made from hickory wood, but primarily used bats that weighed between 40-48 ounces during his Hall of Fame career. Ty Cobb used ones that weighed between 35-44 ounces during a career that saw him put up more hits than anyone who wasn’t gambling on baseball. Shoeless Joe Jackson used bats in excess of 40 ounces, with a 41-ounce example from his outlaw ball days surviving. A game-used bat from Tris Speaker weighs in at over 39 ounces. A 45-ounce bat of Dave Bancroft hit the auction block, Babe Ruth was known to use bats over 40 ounces…the list goes on and on. There’s a surviving Buck Weaver game bat that was 38 ounces, Jake Daubert of around 40 ounces, and so on.
Was there variance? Absolutely. Baseball players may be creatures of habit, but they’re also willing to change those habits when home runs start becoming long outs, or when solid contact becomes a double play. Players would experiment with different bat lengths and weights, but not necessarily to a massive extent. There aren’t records, for example, of a player ordering a batch of 31” bats that weighed 32 ounces alongside another batch of 36” bats that weighed 42 ounces.
Stars of professional baseball from 1910-1929, by and large, were using heavy bats in play. This would naturally trickle down into the retail bat marketplace, where the average Saturday player wouldn’t be able to buy one that was exactly the same as his favorite player. But could he come close?
This ad, dated to sometime in the 1910-1916 time frame due to the reference to Frank Baker as “Good Night” instead of “Home Run”, shows that the answer was “yes”. A Joe Jackson model retail bat could be ordered with a weight of between 38 and 46 ounces, and a Tris Speaker between 36 and 44 ounces. The listed crate weight of “about 110 pounds” for three dozen (36) bats is the same for those as it is with the other bats with unlisted weights. We do see other ads for retail bats that do not list weights.
Unlike most other manufactured tools, or tools that can be used as weapons, there is significant variance of the weight of a baseball bat. Yes, it would have been possible for our Mafia enforcer to have used a 32-ounce retail model baseball bat to silence someone. It’s also possible that he would have used a 38-, a 42-, or even a 48-ounce hickory bat to do the job. For "The Deadliest Warrior" to simply wave their hands and say that a baseball bat used by the Mafia would have weighed in at two pounds is not necessarily true, and the difference between a two-pound bat and a three-pound bat is significant.
The type of wood that was used to make such a bat most likely would have been white ash. Most of the professional models used at the time were white ash because it was possible to select extremely high quality examples, and most retail models still used white ash because it was plentiful enough to be cheap and still provide a quality product. Hanna, for example, started by using southern ash but switched to white ash because of issues with the way that humidity would degrade southern ash. But "The Deadliest Warrior" would have us believe that these bats, circa 1929, would have been either ash or maple. Ash would have been likely, hickory possible but unlikely, with the chance of a bat made from a multitude of other woods like sycamore that were still used (albeit sparingly) at various levels during the 1910-1929 time period.
Maple, though?
In the early days of bat manufacturing, when players were responsible for producing their own bats, it’s certainly possible that maple wood was used sporadically. The issue with maple, however, is that it’s fairly dense and extremely difficult to carve, whittle, or turn on a lathe; this goes double for a mostly-untrained woodworker like a professional baseball player. There are references to pine bats being used, which would have little advantage outside of being easy for an unskilled player to produce a smooth bat with. The early manufactured bats were overwhelmingly ash wood, and by 1900 pretty much every bat in use professionally was manufactured rather than being made by a player. Skilled woodworkers still could, and would, use other woods, but there do not seem to be records of maple wood being used for manufacturing professional bats or even the retail bats.
Maple bats are popular today, but when did this begin? And would our Mafia enforcer in 1929 have been able to use one to break the ribs of a squealer?
The answer, shockingly, is “no”. He could not have used one, because the manufacturing of maple baseball bats did not begin on any scale until 1998. From the NY Times, dated June 19, 1998:

What is the secret? Why does Carter, a potential Hall of Famer who has knocked in at least 100 runs in 11 of his 16 seasons, adore a bat that he did not begin using until last season while with the Blue Jays, a bat he sneaked into at least one game in 1997 before it was officially approved by Major League Baseball?
''It's maple,'' Carter revealed. ''They're made out of maple.'' That's it, the secret in its entirety. Carter is the most vocal of the two dozen major league clients of Sam Holman, a waggish 53-year-old from Ottawa who responded to a bar challenge from a baseball scout two years ago by carving a bat from wood from a rock maple tree, not the northern ash wood from which virtually all bats are made.
''I couldn't make a better ash tree,'' Holman said, ''and I knew there was more than one way to make a bat.''
So Holman formed the Original Maple Bat Corporation and has devoted the last two years to making maple bats and trying to gain a slice of a market dominated by Hillerich & Bradsby, a 115-year-old Louisville, Ky., company that provides Louisville Sluggers to almost 70 percent of major league players. Trying to break into a sport steeped in tradition and superstition, often in defiance of logic and self-interest, Holman has a daunting task.

Referring to Joe Carter as “a potential Hall of Famer” is absurd enough, but this article from 1998 details how unusual the very idea of a maple bat is. From the same article:

Nonetheless, why did it take decades for someone to consistently use maple to make bats? It is not Kryptonite, after all.
''When you think about it, I guess that is a little strange,'' said Toronto outfielder Shawn Green, who has used maple bats in practice. ''You'd think it would have happened before.''
Holman, a former stagehand with the National Arts Center in Ottawa, said that bat manufacturers apparently shied away from the heavier wood because it is known for being ''too brittle'' and difficult to control because of its density.

So there you have it. "Two pounds" is a possibility but not a certainty for the weight of a baseball bat in 1929. And our Mafia enforcer would have used a lot of heavy stick-like objects to dispatch a stool pigeon, but we do know for sure that it would not have been a maple baseball bat.

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 40%. (I'm a bot)

In the end, Attorney General Andy Beshear was able to emerge victorious in a gubernatorial race being watched as much for what it says next year's national elections as it does about the direction of the commonwealth.
The Democrats - Beshear and his running mate, Jacqueline Coleman - placed much of their focus on Kentucky's educators and their anger over moves by the Bevin administration to make changes to their pensions.
While Bevin basked in the attention and personal visits from Trump and Pence, Beshear worked to shore up votes and keep voters looking at local issues, including his support for expanded gambling in the state.
Beshear campaigned with his father, former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, and Democratic House Floor Leader Rocky Adkins, a popular eastern Kentucky Democrat who he beat in the primary.
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Gonna do something a little different for today- Instead of doing a follow-up of the day prior, I’m going to keep updating this post throughout the day with commitments as they come in (Probably will update every 10mins or so).
Air Force: NR LB SirVocea Dennis (Syracuse, NY/Christian Brothers Academy/The Peddie School)
Alabama: 4* S Jordan Battle (Fort Lauderdale, FL/St. Thomas Aquinas), 5* OT Evan Neal (Okeechobee, FL/Okeechobee/IMG Academy), 5* RB Trey Sanders (Port St. Joe, FL/Port St. Joe/IMG Academy)
Primary Recruiter (Battle): Joe Pannunzio
Primary Recruiter (Neal): Brent Key
Primary Recruiter (Sanders): Tosh Lupoi
Arizona: 4* CB Bobby Wolfe (Houston, TX/Madison)
Arizona State: 4* DE Stephon Wright (Los Angeles, CA/Cathedral)
Primary Recruiter: Antonio Pierce
Arkansas: 3* CB Gregory Brooks Jr. (Harvey, LA/West Jefferson)
Primary Recruiter: Ron Cooper
Arkansas State: NR CB Amir Howard (Citra, FL/North Marion/Fort Scott CC), NR DT Aaron Donkor (Roswell, NM/New Mexico Military Institute), NR OG Ernesto Ramirez (Norwalk, CA/Cerritos College), NR DE Kailon Davis (Reserve, LA/East St. John/Independence)
Auburn: 4* DE Derick Hall (Gulfport, MS/Gulfport), 3* RB DJ Williams (Sebring, FL/Sebring)
Primary Recruiter (Hall): Marcus Woodson
Primary Recruiter (Williams): Tim Horton
Ball State: NR WR Jerwuan Thomas (Huntsville, AL/Virgil Grissom School)
Baylor: 3* TE Sam Snyder (Orange Park, FL/Fleming Island), 4* ATH Peyton Powell (Odessa, TX/Permian), 3* OG Davis DiVall (Bridgton, ME/Bridgton Academy), 3* WR Jaylen Ellis (Round Rock, TX/Cedar Ridge)
Primary Recruiter (Snyder & DiVall): Evan Cooper
Primary Recruiter (Ellis): Shawn Bell
Boise State: 3* WR Shea Whiting (Houston, TX/Alief Taylor)
Primary Recruiter: Eric Kiesau
Boston College: 3* S Connor Grieco (Montvale, NJ/St. Joseph Regional), 3* CB Josh DeBerry (Warren, MI/De La Salle Collegiate), 3* DT Mike Ciaffoni (Sudbury, MA/Sudbury-Lincoln Regional)
Primary Recruiter (Grieco): Anthony Campanile
Primary Recruiter (DeBerry): Bill Sheridan
Primary Recruiter (Ciaffoni): Jim Reid
Bowling Green: 2* DE Andrew Bench (Genoa, OH/Genoa Area), 3* CB Davin Wilson (Moreno Valley, CA/Rancho Verde), NR WR Jake Rogers (Medina, OH/Highland), NR OG Christopher Oliver (Erie, PA/Cathedral Prep), [3* WR Tyrone Broden[(https://247sports.com/PlayeTyrone-Broden-46055265) (West Bloomfield, MI/West Bloomfield), NR DT Blaine Spires (Youngstown, OH/East), NR ATH Brennan Spiess (London, OH/London), NR ATH Davion Daniels (Hubbard, OH/Hubbard), NR S Jajuan Hudson (Camden, NJ/Camden), NR DE Dawan Martin (Youngstown, OH/East)
Buffalo: 2* DT Ronald McGee (Sumter, SC/SumteHighland CC), NR DT CJ Bazile (Bayonne, NJ/Bayonne), MR RB Larry Robbins (Miami, FL/Northwestern), 2* DE Georell Kidd (Miami, FL/Northwestern), NR OG Caelan Shepard (Annapolis, MD/Broadneck Senior), NR TE Tyler Stephens (Leavittsburg, OH/Labrae), 2* OT Anthony Laudicina (Wayne, PA/Radnor)
Cal: 3* CB Jaylen Martin (Corona, CA/Eleanor Roosevelt)
Primary Recruiter: Gerald Alexander
Charleston: NR RB Felix Nembhard (Homestead, FL/South Dade)
Charlotte: NR WR Quinton Patten (Blythewood, SC/Blythewood), 3* CB Bryson Whitehead (Cornelius, NC/William Amos Hough), NR OT Yontez Jarrell (Jacksonville, FL/Ed White), 2* TE Rhett Read (Jewett, TX/Leon/Blinn College), NR CB Solomon Rogers NR CB Solomon Rogers (Rolesville, NC/Rolesville)
Central Michigan: 3* CB Ormondell Dingle (Detroit, MI/Cass Technical), 3* ATH Kyron McKinnie-Harper (Detroit, MI/Cass Technical), 3* CB Dishon McNary (Dallas, GA/East Paulding/Independence CC)
Cincinnati: 3* WR Ja’Quan Sheppard (Zephyrhills, FL/Zephyrhills)
Clemson: 3* OT Kaleb Boateng (Fort Lauderdale, FL/Fort Lauderdale), 4* DT Tyler Davis (Apopka, FL/Wekiva)
Primary Recruiter (Boateng): Robbie Caldwell
Primary Recruiter (Davis): Todd Bates
Colorado: NR DT Janaz Jordan (Hampton, VA/Bethel/Hinds CC), 3* LB Marvin Ham (Bellevile, MI/Belleville), 3* CB KJ Trujillo (Orange, CA/Orange Lutheran)
Primary Recruiter (Trujillo): Darrin Chiaverini
Colorado State: 3* CB Caleb Blake (Orlando, FL/Bishop Moore Catholic), 2* OT Alex Azusenis (Powell, OH/Oletangy Liberty), NR CB Andre Neal (Owings Mills, MD/New Town/College of San Mateo), 3* WR Dante Wright (Navarre, FL/Navarre), 3* WR Ty McCullouch (Moreno Valley, CA/Rancho Verde)
Primary Recruiter (Wright): Joe Cox
Primary Recruiter (McCullouch): Ronnie Letson
East Carolina: 3* CB Juan Powell (Atlanta, GA/Douglass)
Eastern Michigan: 3* WR DeAnthony Ball (Atlanta, GA/Carver), 3* LB Brandon Burks (Pickerington, OH/Pickerington Central/Butler CC), 2* LB Charles Brown Jr. (Edgewood, MD/Edgewood)
FAU: 3* TE Rahmod Smith (Homestead, FL/Homestead), 3* S Dwight Toombs II (Port St. Lucie, FL/St. Lucie West Centennial), NR WR Adrian Bryant (Visalia, CA/College of the Sequoias)
FIU: 2* K Tommy Heatherly (Grove, OK/Grove/Northeastern Oklahoma A&M), NR DE Ty Danzy (Anderson, SC/Westside), NR OT Julius Pierce (Sanford, FL/Seminole)
Florida: 4* OG Deyavie Hammond (Lakeland, FL/Lakeland), 4* DE Lloyd Summerall (Lakeland, FL/Lakeland), 4* TE Keon Zipperer (Lakeland, FL/Lakeland)
Prmary Recruiter (Hammond & Zipperer): Larry Scott
Primary Recruiter (Summerall): Todd Grantham
Florida State: 3* DT Malcolm Ray (Miami, FL/Miami Carol City), 3* CB Jarvis Brownlee (Opa Locka, FL/Miami Carol City), 4* S Raymond Woodie III (Tallahassee, FL/Florida State Univ. School)
Primary Recruiter (Ray & Brownlee): Telly Lockette
Primary Recruiter: Raymond Woodie
Fresno State: 3* CB Deven Jarvis (La Puente, CA/Bishop Amat), 3* LB Devonta Bridges (Rialto, CA/William Amina Charter), 3* RB Peyton Dixon (Reno, NV/Bishop Manogue), 3* WR Joshua Kelly (Fresno, CA/San Joaquin Memorial), 3* ATH Levelle Bailey (Sacramento, CA/Luther Burbank)
Primary Recruiter (Jarvis): Ryan Grubb
Georgia: 4* QB Dwan Mathis (Belleville, MI/Oak Park), 5* LB Nakobe Dean (Horn Lake, MS/Horn Lake), NR QB Stetson Bennett IV (Blackshear, GA/Pierce County/Jones County JC)
Primary Recruiter (Mathis): James Coley
Primary Recruiter (Dean): Dan Lanning
Georgia Southern: NR LB Caree Collier (Augusta, GA/Aquinas), NR OG Verneal Henshaw Jr. (Bunnell, FL/Flagler-Palm Coast)
Georgia Tech: 2* DT Joseph Appiah Darkwa (Dusseldorf, Germany), 3* WR Ahmarean Brown (Tampa, FL/Jefferson)
Hawaii: NR LB Tauivi Ho Ching (Tafuna, American Samoa/Tafuna/Mt. San Antonio College)
Houston: 3* DE Taures Payne (Hoover, AL/HooveNorthwest Mississippi CC), 3* OT Rodquice Chaney (Houston, TX/Alief Elsik)
Howard: 2* OT James Prince (White Plains, NY/Archbishop Stepinac)
Idaho: 3* RB Kiahn Martinez (Aurora, CO/Regis Jesuit), 3* WR Camren Thomas (Los Angeles, CA/Hawkins), 2* DT Vei Tomasi (Oakland, CA/Fremont/Laney College), 2* RB Nick Romano (Meridian, ID/Rocky Mountain), 2* LB Tanner Brooks (Mead, WA/Mt. Spokane), 2* LB Austin Holt (Palatka, FL/Palatka/College Of The Desert), NR LB Jalan Jenkins (Evanston, IL/Evanston/Butte College), 2* S Satchel Escalante (Chandler, AZ/Hamilton/Scottsdale CC), 2* QB Nathan Cisco (Thompson’s Station, TN/Independence)
Illinois: 3* DE Keith Randolph (Belleville, IL/Belleville West)
Primary Recruiter: Cory Patterson
Indiana: 3* DT Juan Harris (Janesville, WI/ParkeIndependence CC), 3* DT Antoine Whitner (Richmond, VA/Godwin/IMG Academy)
Primary Recruiter (Harris): Mark Hagen
Iowa: 3* ATH Daraun McKinney (River Rouge, MI/River Rouge), 3* RB Shadrick Byrd
Primary Recruiter (McKinney): Phil Parker
Primary Recruiter (Byrd): Derrick Foster
Kansas State: NR OG Taylor Poitier (Mission, KS/Bishop Miege), 3* CB William Jones (Arlington, TX/Mansfield Summit), 3* FB Jax Dineen (Lawrence, KS/Lawrence Free State), 3* QB Jaren Lewis (Columbia, MO/Battle)
Kennesaw State: 2* LB Joel Parker (Pinson, AL/Pinson Valley), NR RB Iaan Cousin (Kennesaw, GA/Mt. Zion), 3* DT Antwann Fann (Perry, GA/Perry), NR OG Jack Chavis (New Hebron, MS/New Hebron/Holmes CC), NR OT Devin Floyd (Rome, GA/Rome), [NR S Darius Miller](Ringgold, GA/Coachulla Creek/Dodge City CC), NR S Kadarius Satterwhite (Newnan, GA/Newnan/Dodge City CC), NR OG Jeremiah Paulo (Lakewood, CA/Lakewood/Long Beach City College)
Kent State: 2* RB Bryan Bradford (Saint Louis, MO/Christian Brothers), 3* DE Prince Okituama (Newark, NJ/West Side), 2* OG Adam Tourville (La Habra, CA/La Habra/Cerritos College)
Kentucky: 3* ATH Taj Dodson (Fairburn, GA/Creekside), 4* S Quandre Mosely (Brunswick, GA/Glynn Academy/Eastern Arizona College)
Primary Recruiter (Dodson): Matt House
Louisville: 3* QB Evan Conley (Marietta, GA/Kell)
Primary Recruiter: Bryan Brown
LSU: 4* DT Siaki Ika (Salt Lake City, UT/East), 4* ATH Raydarious Jones (Horn Lake, MS/Horn Lake)
Primary Recruiter (Ika): Bill Busch
Primary Recruiter (Jones): Corey Raymond
Marshall: NR DT Elijah Alston (Chesapeake, VA/Oscar Smith), NR RB Cedrick Wilcox (Port St. Lucie, FL/St. Lucie West Centennial), NR OT Josh Ball (Fredericksburg, VA/Stafford Sr./Butler CC)
Maryland: 3* TE Malik Jackson (Fort Meade, MD/Meade Senior)
Memphis: NR CB Gabe Rogers (Jackson, MS/Callaway/Jones County JC), NR OT John Dale (De Kalb, MS/Kemper County/Hinds CC)
Miami OH: 2* DE Jahmal Wynter (McDonough, GA/Henry County/Highland CC)
Michigan: 5* S Daxton Hill (Tulsa, OK/Booker T. Washington), 4* WR Cornelius Johnson (Greenwich, CT/Brunswick School)
Primary Recruiter (Hill): Sherrone Moore
Primary Recruiter (Johnson): Don Brown
Michigan State: 3* OT Maverick Hansen (Farmington, MI/Harrison)
Middle Tennessee State: 2* CB Jalen Jackson (Valrico, FL/Bloomingdale), 3* DE Darius Williams (Hemingway, SC/Hemingway), NR LB Roninn Wright (Kingsland, GA/Camden County)
Minnesota: 3* CB Kelvin Clemmons (Tampa, FL/Alonso/Hutchinson CC)
Missouri: 3* LB Devin Nicholson (Detroit, MI/Cass Technical), 3* DE Darius Robinson (Canton, MI/Canton), 3* DT Chris Daniels (Euless, TX/Trinity/Copiah-Lincoln CC), 3* LB Jamie Pettway (Albany, GA/Westover)
Primary Recruiter (Nicholson & Robinson): AJ Ofodile
Montana: 2* OT Dumitru Salagor (Camas, WA/Union)
Murray State: 3* QB Brandon Wharton II (Nolensville, TN/Nolensville)
Navy: 3* FB Sitiveni Kaufusi (Honolulu, HI/Punahou), 3* S BJ Gibson (Marietta, GA/Walton)
Nebraska: 3* OT Brant Banks (Houston, TX/Westbury Christian School), 3* OT Jimmy Fritzsche (Greenville, SC/Greenville), 4* DE Ty Robinson (Gilbert, AZ/Higley)
Primary Recruiter (Banks & Fritzsche): Greg Austin
Primary Recruiter (Robinson): Mike Dawson
Nevada: 3* DE Javasia Brunson (Lufkin, TX/Lufkin), 3* DE Breylon Garcia (Lufkin, TX/Lufkin)
New Mexico: 3* S Shaddrick Lowery (Fort Lauderdale, FL/American Heritage/College of the Canyons), 3* Qb Brandt Hughes (Chico, CA/Pleasant Valley/Butte College), NR WR Jordan Kress (Glendale, AZ/Mountain Ridge/Butte College), 3* TE Kyle Jarvis (Antioch, CA/Antioch/Contra Costa College), 3* OG Jacob Jankoviak (Fullerton, CA/Centennial/Fullerton College), 3* CB Antonio Hunt (Lancaster, CA/Paraclete/College of the Canyons), 3* LB James Lewis (Tulsa, OK/Memorial/Coffeyville CC), 3* LB Reco Hannah (Wedowee, AL/Randolph County/Highland CC), NR LB Devin Sanders (San Diego, CA/Mira Mesa/San Diego Mesa College), 2* LB Jacobi Hearn (Clinton, MS/Clinton/Mississippi Gulf Coast CC)
New Mexico State: NR S Chris Bell (Hendersonville, TN/Pope John Paul II/Independence CC), [2* WR Robert Downs](Cerritos, CA/Valley Christian/Fullerton College), 2* OG Eligah Hunter (Washington, DC/Friendship Collegiate Academy/ASA College NY), 3* DT Lama Lavea (El Paso, TX/Chapin), 3* LB Tevan McAdams (Denton, TX/GuyeTrinity Valley CC), NR LB Taylor Milton (Zachary, LA/Zachary), 2* OT Blake Walker (Visalia, CA/Central Valley Christian/Ventura College), 2* WR Terrell Warner (Holden, LA/WalkeDodge City CC), 2* WR Jared Wyatt (Wylie, TX/Wylie East/Navarro College)
Nicholls State: NR CB Jordan Jackson (Geismar, LA/Dutchtown)
North Carolina: 3* DE Tomari Fox (Suwanee, GA/Collins Hill), 3* OT Triston Miller (Charlotte, NC/Charlotte Country Day), 4* QB Sam Howell (Monroe, NC/Sun Valley)
Primary Recruiter (Howell): Tommy Thigpen
North Texas: 3* WR Khatib Lyles (El Paso, TX/Parkland), 3* CB Quinn Whitlock (Pinola, MS/Mendenhall/Copiah-Lincoln CC)
Northern Illinois: 3* WR Fabian McCray (Chicago, IL/Phillips Academy), NR DT Reece Heyerdahl (Neenah, WI/Neenah), 3* WR Tyrice Richie (Chicago Heights, IL/Marian Catholic/Dodge City CC)
Ohio: 2* OG Joe Oakes (Cincinnati, OH/Indian Hill)
Ohio State: 3* DT Jaden McKenzie (Wake Forest, NC/Wake Forest), 5* DE Zach Harrison (Lewis Center, OH/Oletangy Orange)
Primary Recruiter (McKenzie): Larry Johnson
Primary Recruiter (Harrison); Kevin Wilson
Oklahoma: 4* S Jeremiah Criddell (Santa Ana, CA/Mater Dei), 4* DE Marcus Stripling (Houston, TX/Mayde Creek)
Primary Recruiter (Criddell): Kerry Cooks
Primary Recruiter (Stripling): Calvin Thibodeaux
Oklahoma State: 4* WR Langston Anderson (Midland, TX/Heritage)
Primary Recruiter: Kasey Dunn
Old Dominion: 2* ATH Frederik Antoine (Canada), NR DE Tyree Bibby (Hialeah, FL/American/Coffeyville CC), NR CB Kaleb Ford-Dement (Whitehouse, TXWhitehouse/Kilgore JC), NR DT Carson Ramos (Yuba City, CA/Yuba City), NR LB Tony Williams (Mission Viejo, CA/Mission Viejo/Saddleback College)
Ole Miss: 3* WR Dontario Drummond (Laurel, MS/Laurel/East Mississippi CC)
Oregon: 3* DE Brandon Dorlus (Deerfield Beach, FL/Deerfield Beach), 3* LB Dru Mathis (Ventura, CA/Buena/Moorpark College)
Primary Recruiter (Dorlus & Mathis): Cort Dennison
Portland State: NR LB JJ Tuinei (Las Vegas, NV/Arbor View)
Penn State: 4* RB Noah Cain (Denton, TX/GuyeIMG Academy)
Primary Recruiter: Ja’Juan Seider
Rice: 2* CB Joshua Landrum (Cedar Hill, TX/Cedar Hill), 3* LB Josh Pearcy (Moorestown, NJ/Moorestown), NR WR Bradley Rozner (Needville, TX/Needville/Cisco College), NR DE Adrian Bickham (Tickfaw, LA/Varnado), 3* ATH Jake Bailey (Bellflower, CA/St. John Bosco), 2* OG Hunter Jones (Stockton, CA/St. Mary’s), NR S Naeem Smith (Iowa City, IA/Iowa City/Ellsworth CC)
Rutgers: 3* S TJ Robinson (Riverview, FL/Riverview), 3* RB Aaron Young (Coatesville, PA/Coatesville)
Primary Recruiter (Young): Lester Erb
Samford: NR ATH Trimarcus Cheeks (Hampton, GA/Dutchtown)
San Diego State: 2* LB Garret Fountain (Turlock, CA/Turlock), 3* OG Kyle Trombley (Yorba Linda, CA/Yorba Linda), 3* OC Joey Capra (Auburn, CA/Placer)
San Jose State: 3* WR Jamar Simpson (Moreno Valley, CA/Rancho Verde)
SMU: 3* DE Nelson Paul (Bunnell, FL/Flagler-Palm Coast)
Primary Recruiter: Randall Joyner
South Alabama: NR S Ryan Melton (West Point, MS/West Point), NR TE Nick Thompson (Madison, MS/St. Joseph Catholic/Holmes CC), NR ATH Dallas Gamble (Booneville, MS/Booneville), 3* ATH Dajon Richard (Patterson, LA/Patterson)
Primary Recruiter (Gamble): Josh Jones
Primary Recruiter (Richard): Pete Bennett
South Carolina: 3* CB John Dixon (Tampa, FL/Chamberlain)
Primary Recruiter: Bryan McClendon
Southern Miss: 3* OT Khalique Washington (Lebanon, PA/Lebanon/Dodge City CC), 3* ATH Antavious Willis (Camden, MS/Velma Jackson)
Primary Recruiter (Washington): Paul Gonnella
Syracuse: 3* OT Cooper Dawson (Charleston, SC/Hanahan)
Temple: 3* OG Jermaine Donaldson (Voorhees, NJ/Eastern), 3* LB Mohammad Kamara (Newark, NJ/Central)
Tennessee: 3* WR Jerrod Means (Hampton, GA/Lovejoy)
Primary Recruiter: David Johnson
Texas A&M&:4* DE Derick Hunter (Fort Myers, FL/Dunbar)
Primary Recruiter: Jay Graham
Toledo: 3* CB Troy Simon (Alpharetta, GA/Milton/Coffeyville CC), 3* CB Chris McDonald (Miami, FL/Miami Southridge)
Texas Southern: 3* QB Brysen McKinney (Arlington, TX/Mansfield Summit)
Troy: 3* WR Reggie Todd (Mobile, AL/Blount/Hinds CC), 3* LB Ahdarrious Gee (Cordele, GA/Crisp County), 3* WR Khalil McClain (Valdosta, GA/Creekside/Hutchinson CC)
Tulane: 3* CB Ton’Quez Ball (Knoxville, TN/South-Doyle), 3* LB Dorian Williams
Tulsa: NR OT Jeremy Jones (Lewisville, TX/Lewisville)
UAB: 3* OT Jayme Simmons (Alabaster, AL/Thompson)
UCF: NR P Alan Kervin (Tarpon Springs, FL/East Lake), 3* CB Jarrad Baker (Melbourne, FL/Eau Gallie), 3* QB Dillon Gabriel (Mililani, HI/Mililani)
Primary Recruiter (Gabriel): Jeff Lebby
UCLA: 3* WR Jaylen Erwin (Charlotte, NC/Ardrey Kell/Hutchinson CC), 3* DT Siale Liku (Oakland, CA/Oakland), 2* OG Josh Carlin (Chatsworth, CA/Sierra Canyon)
Primary Recruiter (Carlin): Justin Frye
UConn: NR DT Rayonte Brown (Dundalk, MD/Dundalk), NR CB Winston Jules (Salisbury, CT/Salisbury School), NR DE Eric Watts (Sumter, SC/Sumter), NR QB Jack Zergiotis (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC/John Abbott), 3* ATH Malik Dixon (Apopka, FL/Wekiva)
UL-Monroe: NR DE Ivin White Jr. (Brandon, MS/Brandon/Hinds CC), NR TE Donovan Hickman (Union, MS/Union/Pearl River CC), NR RB Zackary Martin (Woodville, TX/Woodville), NR DT Edward Haralson (Yazoo City, MS/Yazoo County/Jones County JC), NR QB Elijah Walker (Amite, LA/Amite/Trinity Valley CC), NR S Chancellor Hitchens (Baton Rouge, LA/McKinley), 2* DT Seth Mason (Allen, TX/Allen), NR OG Victor Cutler (West Monroe, LA/West Monroe), 3* OG Evan Henry (DeSoto, TX/DeSoto), NR CB Tavier Williams (Many, LA/Many)
UMass: 3* DE Jaylin Bannerman (Pickerington, OH/Pickerington Central/Arizona Western College)
USC: 3* S Briton Allen (Orlando, FL/Lake Highland Prep/IMG Academy), 3* DE Nick Figueroa (San Bernardino, CA/Cajon/Riverside CC), 3* LB Ralen Goforth (Bellflower, CA/St. John Bosco), 4* DE Drake Jackson (Corona, CA/Centennial), 3* DT Dejon Benton (Pittsburg, CA/Pittsburg Senior)
Primary Recruiter (Allen): Gavin Morris
Primary Recruiter (Figueroa): Eric Ziskin
Primary Recruiter (Goforth): Johnny Nansen
USF: 3* CB Jayden Curry (Virginia Beach, VA/Bayside/IMG Academy), 3* QB Jahquez Evans (Atlanta, GA/Mays), 3* DE Tyrik Jones (Fort Lauderdale, FL/Plantation/Arizona Western College)
Primary Recruiter (Evans): Justin Burke
Prinary Recruiter (Jones): Sean Cronin
Utah: 3* OG Sataoa Laumea (Rialto, CA/Eisenhower Senior)
Primary Recruiter: Jim Harding
UTSA: 3* QB Lowell Narcisse (Saint James, LA/St. James/Mississippi Gulf Coast CC)
Vanderbilt: 3* RB Keyon Brooks (Acworth, GA/Kennesaw Mountain), NR DE Lashawn Paulino-Bell (Pompano Beach, FL/St. Thomas Aquinas/East Mississippi CC)
Virginia: 3* CB Tenyeh Dixon (Washington, DC/Woodson HD), 3* WR Nathaniel Beal III (Houston, TX/Strake Jesuit)
Virginia Tech: 3* CB Brion Murray (Milford, DE/Milford/Hutchinson CC)
Wake Forest: 3* ATH Trey Rucker (Oakton, VA/Flint Hill School)
West Virginia: 3* WR Ali Jennings (Highland Springs, VA/Highland Springs)
Primary Recruiter: Tyron Carrier
Western Kentucky: 3* OG Jack Randolph (Franklin, KY/Franklin-Simpson), 3* WR Joshua Simon (Sumter, SC/Crestwood), NR DT Marcus Bragg (Miami, FL/Jackson/Arizona Western College)
Wyoming: 3* WR Treyton Welch (Buffalo, MN/Buffalo Senior), 2* S Jerome Cooper (Los Angeles, CA/Alain Leroy Locke Senior), NR RB Jordan Murry (Murrieta, CA/Murrieta Valley)

Kentucky

Five Fast Facts

Kentucky Bend is one of the few undisputed exclaves existing with the United States. Officially part of Fulton County, Kentucky Bend is a piece of land on the inside of a meander of the Mississippi River. It is surrounded entirely by the states of Tennessee and Missouri, and does not touch any part of Kentucky.
Mammoth Cave is the world’s longest cave, and is the second oldest tourist attraction in the United States, having been promoted since 1816 (only Niagara Falls is older).
“Happy Birthday To You” was created by two Louisville sisters in 1893.
Post-It Notes and Chevrolet Corvettes are exclusively made in Kentucky, in Cynthiana and Bowling Green, respectively.
More than half of all American deaths during the War of 1812 were Kentuckians.

The Bluegrass State
Abbreviation: KY
Time Zone: US Eastern (UTC-5/-4)/US Central (UTC -6/-5) west of Louisville
Admission to the Union: June 1, 1792
Population: 4,425,092 (26th)
Area: 40,409 sq. mi (37t h)
State Capital: Frankfort
Largest City: Louisville
Demonym: Kentuckian
Borders: West Virginia (E), Virginia (SE), Tennessee (S), Missouri (W), Illinois (NW), Indiana (NW), Ohio (N, NE)
Subreddit: /kentucky

Government

Governor: Matt Bevin (R)
Lieutenant Governor: Jenean Hampton (R)
Kentucky General Assembly

38 Senators (27 Republican, 11 Democrat)
100 Representatives (53 Democrat, 47 Republican)
President pro tem of the Senate: Robert Stivers
Speaker of the House: Greg Stumbo

U.S. Senators: Mitch McConnell (R), Rand Paul (R)
U.S. Representative(s): 5 Republicans, 1 Democrat
Last 5 Election Results (election winner in italics):

Barack Obama (D) – 37.80%, Mitt Romney (R) – 60.49%
Barack Obama (D) – 41.15%, John McCain (R) – 57.37%
John Kerry (D) – 39.60%, George W Bush (R) – 59.54%
Al Gore (D) – 56.50%, George W Bush (R) – 41.40%
Bill Clinton (D) – 45.8%, Bob Dole (R) – 44.9%, Ross Perot (I) – 8.7%

Demographics

Racial Composition:

87.8% White (including white Hispanic)
7.8% Black
3.1% Hispanic (of any race)
1.7% Mixed Race or Multicultural
1.1% Asian
0.2% Native American

Ancestry Groups

20.7% American
12.7% German
10.5% Irish
9.7% English
5.7% African American

Second Languages – Most Non-English Languages Spoken at Home

French (incl. Patois, Cajun and Quebecois)
Spanish
German
French (includes Patois, Cajun)
Chinese

Religious Affiliation – Largest Religious Denominations

No religious affiliation (48%)
Protestant or other Christian (42.7%)
Catholic (8.3%)
Jewish, Muslim or other (0.60%)

Education

Kentucky’s public school system comprises 173 school districts and over 1,200 educational facilities. Due to a state Supreme Court ruling that its education system was unconstitutional in 1989, the state has undergone significant reform in the past 25 years. While there have been significant improvements (Kentucky ranks high in affordability and K-12 attrition rates), high levels of adult illiteracy and a low percentage of degree-holding residents, Kentucky is continuing to work on reforms. In March 2013, a law was passed which raised the dropout age to 18 if more than 55% (96 out of 173) of the school districts did so. By July 2013, this requirement was met, meaning all district must comply by the 2017 school year.
Kentucky has a total of 8 public four-year degree granting institutions, as well as a large number of private colleges and universities. The flagship universities are the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville.
Schools in Kentucky include (shown are schools with enrollment over 7,500):

School	Website	Location	NCAA
University of Kentucky	UKY	Lexington	Division I
University of Louisville	Louisville	Louisville	Division I
Western Kentucky University	WKU	Bowling Green	Division I
Eastern Kentucky University	EKU	Richmond	Division I
Northern Kentucky University	NKU	Highland Heights	Division I
Murray State University	Murray	Murray	Division I
Morehead State University	MSU	Morehead	Division I

Economy

Unemployment Rate – 5.0%
State Minimum Wage - $7.25/hr
Wealthiest Cities/Towns (by per capita income)

Mockingbird Valley ($134,745)
Glenview ($85,094)
Rolling Fields ($73,152)
Indian Hills ($66,637)
Anchorage ($63,988)

Largest Employers, excluding Wal-Mart and state/federal government

Our Lady Bellefonte Hospital
Humana Inc
Norton Psychiatric Center
Univ. of Kentucky Chandler Hospital
St. Elizabeth Healthcare

Transportation

Major Highways

Interstate Highways: I-24, I-64, I-65, I-69, I-71, I-75

The state has nine parkways, and three bypass and spur roads. The state no longer charges toll access, and speed limits have increased in rural areas to 70 mph.
Public Transit

System	Services	Area	Description
Amtrak	Rail	State	Links to Ashland, South Portsmouth and Fulton through several train lines
Greyhound	Bus	Statewide	Service provided to most major towns in Kentucky

Airports/Seaports (serving over 100K travellers)

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG)
Louisville International Airport (SDF)
Blue Grass Airport (LEX)

The Port of Huntington-Tristate is the largest inland port in the US, and the 9th largest seaport overall. Kentucky as a state ranks 10th in overall port tonnage.

Culture

Cuisine
Kentucky cuisine is similar to traditional southern cuisine, but has elements of Appalachian and Midwestern influence as well. Fried chicken may be the state’s most famous dish (due in no small part to a certain Colonel), but the state’s culinary traditions include its own regional variant of barbeque (which uses mutton), traditional southern dishes like fried catfish and cornbread, unique local dishes like Derby Pie, and Midwestern favorites like Cincinnati chili. Notable dishes include:

Burgoo: a thick stew of vegetables and game meat (most often mutton or lamb)
Bourbon balls: crushed cookies mixed with chocolate and bourbon
Derby pie: a chocolate and walnut pie named for the Kentucky Derby
Goetta: a delicacy of ground meat, oats and seasonings
Hot Brown: a layered dish of bread, bacon and turkey, topped with a Mornay sauce

Kentucky is most strongly associated with bourbon, an American whiskey made primarily of corn. Trade agreements require bourbon to be reserved only for products made in the US, but there is no specific region where bourbon must be made. The US government has strict guidelines for what legally constitutes bourbon; these include a minimum 51% corn mixture, distillation to no more than 160 proof, aged in new oak barrels, and bottled at no less than 80 proof.
Arts (Literature, Film, Music) and Festivals
Kentucky has played a major role in Southern and American literature, with works that explore rural life, the working class, and family. Some of the major works that take place in Kentucky include Uncle Tom’s Cabin (widely seen as a major factor in the Civil War), All the King’s Men, and The Dollmaker. Hunter S. Thompson, Marsha Norman, and Wendell Berry are all acclaimed authors or playwrights from the state. Music in Kentucky is heavily centered on folk music and bluegrass. Bluegrass music is similar to American folk music, but has roots in Irish and English traditional music, and later incorporated elements of jazz. Instruments are traditionally acoustic, and include the fiddle, a five-string banjo, the upright base, and a harmonica or dobro. Songs are traditionally narrative in style, but include some elements of protest music and railroading.
Festivals in Kentucky include the Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion, the Festival of the Bluegrass, the Ichthus Music Festival, and the Summer Motion Festival.
Sports
Kentucky is most prominently represented in the NCAA, with both the University of Kentucky Wildcats and the University of Louisville Cardinals being among the most successful basketball teams in the country. The Wildcats in particular rank first in win-loss record (2,021-637), winning percentage (76%), NCAA tournament appearances (55) and NCAA tournament wins (121), and is second in NCAA titles with 8. Kentucky was home to early franchises in both the NFL and the MLB. The Louisville Breckenridges (Brecks) were a football team from 1899 through the 1924 NFL season, when their stadium burned to the ground. The franchise was “revived” as the Colonels in 1926, but folded that same year. The Colonels were also the name of a National League baseball team based out of Louisville until 1899. Several players from the Colonels would go on to other teams and become members of the MLB Hall of Fame, including Honus Wagner and Hughie Jennings. The Louisville Grays played two seasons in the National League, but folded after the 1877 season due to the first gambling scandal in baseball history. There are currently a number of developmental or minor league teams for the Big Four in the state, but no significant professional franchises.
The Kentucky Derby is the first leg of the American Triple Crown, and is held at Churchill Downs in Louisville on the first Saturday in May. There are a number of traditions that have a large role of the atmosphere of the race. The mint julep is the traditional beverage of the race, and Millionaire’s Row still houses wealthy socialites (including those wearing the large, elaborate hats that can be seen as somewhat of a stereotype). Churchill Downs’ main spires and clubhouse influenced the design of the frontstretch grandstands at Pennsylvania’s Pocono Raceway.
Kentucky Speedway in Sparta is the newest track on the NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit, having held its first race in 2011. The circuit itself has been open since 2000 and has hosted ARCA and Indycar races in the past. Drivers praise the course’s rough surface, which is being repaved and cured to fix drainage issues in 2016.

List of Famous People

Previous States:

So over the past few days the area I deliver in has been grey and slow...however an area an hour south from me is always dark red..so I decided today to gamble and drive down to that area and see if it pays off. Am I foolish for this train of thought?
For reference I’m in Louisville KY and drove to Elizabethtown KY.

My friend and I were discussing gambling legalization in KY. He wants to argue that it's because of the "Christians" which i said sounds like blaming blacks, mexicans, or muslims for XYZ. I proposed that he should follow the money, as politicians never care about the common people's opinions. I told him it has something to do with the horse industry and I think being that Louisville is in such close proximity to Indiana that there is some kind of under the table deal between the two states. I can't find much online, can anyone more educated shed more light on this?

Playing a bit of catch-up due to my work schedule- today's round-up (6/14) should be posted early tomorrow morning.
2019:
Ball State: 3* DE Tavion Woodard (West Lafayette, IN/West Lafayette)
Washington: 3* LB Miki Ah You (Kahuku, HI/Kahuku)
Primary Recruiter: Bob Gregory
Cal: 3* OT Brian Driscoll (Encinitas, CA/Torrey Pines), 3* QB Spencer Brasch (Gilbert, AZ/Higley)
Primary Recruiter (Brasch): Marques Tuiasosopo
Virginia: NR DT Emil Bo Andersen (Denmark)
SMU: 3* WR Shamar Johnson (North Richland Hills, TX/Richland), 2* S Roderick Roberson Jr. (Royse City, TX/Royse City)
Primary Recruiter (Johnson): David Gru
Primary Recruiter (Roberson Jr.): Trey Haverty
Notre Dame: 3* LB Jack Kiser (Royal Center, IN/Pioneer)
Primary Recruiter: Clark Lea
NC State: 3* S Jakeen Harris (Savannah, GA/Benedictine Military School), 4* DE Savion Jackson (Clayton, NC/Clayton)
Primary Recruiter (Jackson): Des Kitchings
Louisiana Tech: 3* LB Maki Carabin (San Antonio, TX/Alamo Heights)
Primary Recruiter: Brian Gamble
Wake Forest: NR ATH Taylor Morin (Chantilly, VA/Westfield)
Oklahoma State: 3* QB Brendan Costello (San Clemente, CA/San Clemente)
Primary Recruiter: Mike Yurcich
Louisville: 3* RB Aidan Robbins (Louisville, KY/Dupont Manual)
Primary Recruiter: Mike Summers
Bowling Green: NR RB Darren Anders (North Olmsted, OH/North Olmsted)
Miami OH: 2* OT Sam Vaughan (Lexington, KY/Lexington Catholic)
Texas Tech: 3* WR La'Vontae Shenault (DeSoto, TX/DeSoto)
Mississippi State: 3* WR Kyziah Pruitt (Macon, MS/Noxubee County)
Primary Recruiter: Mark Hudspeth
Georgia State: NR DE Jay Lepkoske (Cleveland, GA/White County)
Primary Recruiter: Josh Stepp
South Dakota: 2* CB Robert Ford (Saint Peters, MO/Lutheran of Saint Charles County)
BYU: 3* TE Carter Wheat (Mesa, AZ/Red Mountain)
Florida Atlantic: NR QB Gio Richardson (West Palm Beach, FL/Oxbridge Academy)
Appalachian State: 3* QB Evan Conley (Marietta, GA/Kell)
Primary Recruiter: Bryan Brown
UTSA: NR S Joshua Wyatt (Houston, TX/C.E. King)
Syracuse: 3* DT Joe Rondi (Wayne, NJ/Wayne Hills)
2020:
Tennessee: NR LS Will Albright (Greeneville, TN/Greeneville)
Primary Recruiter: Charles Kelly
Notre Dame: 4* TE Kevin Bauman (Red Bank, NJ/Red Bank Catholic)
Primary Recruiter: Chip Long
Miami: 3* WR Marcus Fleming (Miami, FL/Miami Southridge)
Primary Recruiter: Ron Dugans
2021:
USC: NR DT Jay Toia (Simi Valley, CA/Grace Brethren)

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I pre-ordered your album, but I wonder this a lot: what's the delivery method that brings you guys the biggest cut of the sale? Download, CD, Vinyl? Or is it all basically a wash?	Hey! Thanks! Hard to say. Direct from us at a show is probably where we get the biggest cut. We buy the albums from the label and then sell them, cutting out the middle man. Will wrote an excellent and elaborate response to a similar question a while back... jj.
Really liking the new album, by the way! Nice work.	"here's a simplified breakdown of our scenario; we need to pay back the label for the money they lent us to make the record, pay for promotion, drug habits, gambling debts and so on. the way we do this is by selling albums. if someone buys a cd or vinyl straight from the distributor that is the best profit margin for the label. companies like amazon, itunes and the sort are another piece in chain where profit margin is compromised. the faster the label makes back the money spent on us the faster we start seeing money. say the label gives us $10,000 and then we deliver a record. hooray, fictions contract satisfied! the label sells the cd for $10. a direct sale nets the label $7. a sale through a store or amazon or something probably nets them a little less. itunes probably nets them $6. so for us to start seeing money from album sales - which is a whole other spreadsheet of percentages and headaches split between 15 different places, last of which being the band - the label would need to sell 1,428 copies, directly, to make back their 10k. conversely, we would need to sell 1,666 copies on itunes for label to recoup. this is way over simplified, i'm leaving out a lot, and of course the numbers above are only for scale. although, if you're selling for $10, $4-7 is probably the ball park for profit margin. can you imagine how well a dude like Atmosphere does? he self released a lot of his music, and sold a boat load. or how about In rainbows? It's best to have your music everywhere. the only people who are going to buy directly from the distributor are fans that already know about your band. let people take their cut, let people stream your music. the bigger your band gets the more tickets you sell, and the more you're paid for festivals and so on." (WM)
What's your favorite story from the road?	There are too many but one comes to mind. 6 years ago we were on tour driving through TX and a cop pulled us over for speeding. We had allot pot in the van and our tour manager at the time told him we were a christian band on our way to a christian festival and let us off. One more would be Jons mom gave him pills to stay up on the long drives. I think it was provigil. We hit a border stop and I was so mad at the border cop that I told him to search the van, you will find nothing. Next think you know Jons in the slammer for the night. We had to cancel the first show with NADA SURF. -BY.
What do you think of Oklahoma? Are you ready to rock out at the Conservatory tonight?	Pull up in our bus that is possibly bigger than the venue itself.
	Homeless women walking circles around the bus staring in all the windows.
	A big slayer logo tagged on the outside of the venue.
	The venue smells like a mildewed basement.
	Check into our hotel for AMA.
	Room smells like a wet dead rat.
	Upgraded to the presidential suite.
	Ate a bunch of mushrooms.
	See you at the metal show tonight.
	KW.
	OH Yeah it's gonna be a punk ass bowling alley vibe tonight. MV.
How is playing a festival different than a regular concert? Do you have a preference of one over the other?	At our level we usually end up playing festivals during the day, so there is always a feeling that you are playing for other peoples fans as well as your own. Trying to keep the show exciting without the aid of lights and production is a challenge, but at the same time its an incredible feeling to break through in those difficult settings and create great moments and really connect to the crowd! That said, a headlining show offers a real chance to present a complete experience. Both great in different ways! jj.
Matt, Do you remember getting drunk during the show at the Boulder theater a few years ago and yelling at somebody in the crowd that you hope they get cancer before unplugging and walking off to end the show? I do, that bummed me out.	Yup that happened...
	It took two to tango in that situation. It some guy leaning on the front of the stage with his back to the band. He was trying to hit on some girl. inconvenienced by the volume of the music he attempted to talk over the band on stage directly behind him. I regret wishing him cancer. that was a base thing to say. But still... FUCK THAT GUY.
	After that night I've made a conscience effort to not be such a prick on stage. even if they have it coming. I'm sorry you saw me at my worst. MV.
What can the UK do to entice you to come back? Its been way to long. Even Robert Plant misses you.	One of the best shows ever in Camden! Blew our mind that Robert Plant showed up, ha. Jon and Matt got to talk with him for a bit. Re: coming back to the UK, we're planning on it in November :)
	Hah that was amazing! The show he came out to was the smallest club we have ever played and our tour manager forgot to put him on the guest list!! Can you imagine?! The girl at the ticket booth almost didn't let him in! jj.
Hey guys, huge fan since Ode and my band even played at HOH Fest in St. Augustine the same year you guys did. You've always done sessions with acoustic versions of your songs (usually Matt + Kelly) and the last few albums the acoustic versions are significantly stylistically different than the album versions. Do you write acoustically and then build up the larger band arrangement, or vice versa? Or do the two versions kind of happen organically?	It depends on the song. Sometimes they start acoustic, sometimes they start from a full band jam, sometimes they start from Matt or I recording a fully realized demo and showing it to the rest of the band. As far as acoustic sessions, that depends on what kind of set up that particular session can accommodate. We'd always rather do full band, because that's the most representative. But sometimes two acoustics feel good, and we can explore a completely different version of the song. That's how you know you have a good song, if it still sounds good on acoustic.
Why the move from Rounder Records to Dualtone?	Our deal w Rounder was completed and Dualtone offered us a very artist friendly deal.
Hey Guys, first, I want to say that I'm a huge fan. I saw you guys during a CMJ in '08 where you played with a band called Ambulance LTD. Ever since then, my friends and I have been hooked. One time during your brooklyn pub crawl (which was awesome), Matt told us how you guys like to punch each other's sandwiches if you don't put hot sauce on it? Is this still a thing? If so, who was the last to get their sandwich punched? Also, what is your favorite hot sauce?	The sandwich game is very simple. If you take a bite of it, anyone who is in the game can punch it. The way you sandwich is safe is by putting something on top of it. If someone punches it while its in the safe zone. That person owes you lunch. This was all fun and games for awhile until we got to the south and were ordering pulled pork sandwiches. A solid hit to one of those will clear a room and get you kicked out. Last person to get it punched was Kelly from me... -by.
You all are my favorite band to see live! I'm glad that you all are still going strong and releasing new material, it makes me happy. You all inspire me so much through your albums. You guys truly have been a blessing. My question: 1)What was your guys biggest obstacle of breaking into the music scene and becoming relevant? Also, try to come to Louisville, KY!	Press has always been a tough thing for us, but I feel like this record, we're getting the most press we ever have on a record release.
	Thank you!! Our biggest obstacles have been radio and press. We have never been a darling of either. A band can't control that stuff though, so all we can do is write songs that we believe in and really love and play great shows. That's always been how we do things. Hope to make it to Louisville soon! jj.
Loved your cover of Talking Heads' Once in a Lifetime. What other covers do you perform or want to? have you ever done triple j's like a version? (australia)	Never done "Like a Version", we've seen it though. It'd be cool to do at some point. We've done a bunch of covers over the years; Bill Bush's 'I'm Waiting' Louis Armstrong's 'St. James Infirmary' Pink Floyd 'Wish You Were Here' We're working on The Beatles 'Something' may bring it out at some point on this tour ;)
Who's the most interesting person you've toured with or met on tour?	I was and still am fascinated with the guys from The Hives, but I don't want to expose any of their secrets because they have a solid mystique going. They Built something special and memorable from the ground up. No matter what kind of art or music you're in to their live show is not to be missed.
After a show in Nashville (with A.A. Bondy, who himself seems really damn interesting), Matt mentioned how incredibly smart the Nada Surf bassist was (spoke a ton of languages), so it got me wondering.	Some of the most interesting people are the crew; ours and else where.
Matt, do you ever regret smashing that guitar or any of the guitars you have smashed? (FYI it was fucking awesome) Will, my friend and I met up with you guys at a bar after the show (same show) and I got FUCKED up on some Scotch on the rocks.. were you as hungover as I was the next day?	I will admit I kind of miss my hagstrom. A lot of bands will plan that whole thing. they'll play an out of tune piece of shit the whole song and then destroy something meaningless. I think that its important if that kind thing happens it just happens. Sacrificing a guitar I love means something to me. That night was so much fun, that moment was worth more than the guitar to me.
My question is How did you guys 'make it'? You guys are super talented and deserve everything that's come your way AND more. But there are so many talented artists that don't quite get the recognition you guys have had. Was it just luck, or did you do something particularly different?	It's hard to say how to "Make it" in this business. I get frustrated when when my friends who are equally talented don't get the recognition that we have. Timing and relationships have a lot to do with it. We got a shot at this and worked really hard from the get go. I'm so thankful when I wake up that I GET TO play music for a living. MV.

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