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A KET production on issues confronting Kentuckians, hosted by Renee Shaw.
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10 DEC 2025 · Renee Shaw leads a discussion about Eastern Kentucky tourism. Guests: Commissioner Mike Mangeot, Kentucky Department of Tourism; Kitty Dougoud, Kentucky Main Street program administrator; Seth Wheat, director of interpretation and engagement at Kentucky State Parks; and Jill Fraley Dotson, executive director of community relations, tourism and Main Street for the City of Pikeville.
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12 NOV 2025 · Renee Shaw leads a discussion about food insecurity. Guests include: State Senator Jason Howell (R-Murray); State Representative Chad Aull (D-Lexington); Michael Halligan, president and CEO of God's Pantry Food Bank; Melissa McDonald, executive director of Feeding Kentucky; Alison Gustafson, Ph.D., executive director, Food as Health at the University of Kentucky Martin Gatton College.
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4 NOV 2025 · Renee Shaw leads a discussion about SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). Guests include: State Rep. Adam Moore (D-Lexington), a member of the Kentucky General Assembly's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Kentucky Task Force; Anne-Tyler Morgan, a Lexington healthcare attorney with McBrayer PLLC; and Heather LeMire, State Director of Americans for Prosperity - Kentucky.
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15 OCT 2025 · Renee Shaw leads a discussion on the U.S. economy. Panelists include Charles Aull, Ph.D., vice president of policy at the Center for Policy and Research at the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce; Jason Bailey, executive director of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy; and Thomas Lambert, Ph.D., professor in the College of Business at the University of Louisville.
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7 OCT 2025 · Renee Shaw leads a discussion on vaccines and medications. Guests: Coy Flowers, M.D., obstetrician-gynecologist practicing at UK Healthcare; Molly Rutherford, M.D., primary care physician at Bluegrass Family Wellness in Crestwood, Ky.; Michael K. Kuduk, M.D., pediatrician at Kentucky Children's Hospital, UK Healthcare; and Kimberly Biss, M.D., obstetrician-gynecologist in Saint Petersburg, Fla.
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23 SEP 2025 · Renee Shaw leads a discussion on K-12 education, including the charter school funding case before the Kentucky Supreme Court and $718 million new funding request from public education advocates.
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16 SEP 2025 · Renee Shaw leads a discussion about state and national politics and the state of political discourse. Guests: Amy Wickliffe, Republican strategist with McCarthy Strategic Solutions; Jonathan Miller, a Democrat and attorney with Frost Brown Todd; Tres Watson, a Republican consultant and founder of Capitol Reins PR; and Sherman Brown, Democratic strategist with McCarthy Strategic Solutions.
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9 SEP 2025 · Renee Shaw leads a discussion about housing in Kentucky. Guests include: State Rep. Susan Witten (R-Louisville), co-chair of the Kentucky Housing Task Force; State Rep. Joshua Watkins (D-Louisville), member of the Kentucky Housing Task Force; and Wendy Smith, deputy executive director of housing programs at the Kentucky Housing Corporation.
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20 AUG 2025 · Host Renee Shaw leads this taped discussion on progress and opportunities in the South Central Kentucky region. Guests include: State Sen. Mike Wilson (R); State Rep. Michael Meredith (R); Bowling Green Mayor Todd Alcott; Ron Bunch, president and CEO of Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce; and Timothy Caboni, president of Western Kentucky University.
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22 JUL 2025 · Guest host Ryland Barton leads a discussion about agriculture in Kentucky with State Senator Jason Howell (R-Murray), chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee; State Representative Chad Aull (D-Lexington), member of the House Agriculture Committee; Sandra Ballew Barnes, Community Farm Alliance; and Leandra Forman of FoodChain, a nonprofit working to increase access to locally-sourced fresh food.
A KET production on issues confronting Kentuckians, hosted by Renee Shaw.
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