Jim Waters, vice president of policy and communications for the Bluegrass Institute, Kentucky's free-market think tank, addresses the debt-ceiling controversy tonight on KET's Kentucky Tonight at 8 p.m. (EDT)

Click here to watch last week's show on the issue. Panelists included Kathy Gornik, chairman of the Bluegrass Institute board of directors.

Waters will be joined by WKU economics professor Brian Strow, Kentucky AFL-CIO president Bill Londrigan and UK economics professor Ken Troske.

Bill Goodman hosts the hour-long, award-winning public affairs program, which is replayed at 2 a.m. on Wednesdays.

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