© 2024 WEKU

Lexington's Radio News Leader

Support WEKU!

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

Eastern Standard

Eastern Standard Preview for November 15, 2021

WEKU | By Tom Martin

Published November 15, 2021 at 7:39 AM EST

On this week’s edition of Eastern Standard: Wall Street Journal reporter Kris Maher on his book “Desperate: An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice in Appalachia.” | Outdated drinking water standards documented across the Ohio Valley | Why dairy farmers are gladly burning manure and how it works to fight climate change | New census numbers show continued loss of population in Eastern Kentucky | What oral history teaches us about the realities of the past

Eastern Standard

Tom Martin

Tom Martin hosts Eastern Standard, a weekly radio magazine of interviews and stories about interesting people, places, and things happening in the Commonwealth.

See stories by Tom Martin

Support nonprofit, fact-based public service journalism

WEKU depends on support from those who view and listen to our content. There's no paywall here. Please support WEKU with your donation.

Contribute now

Related Content

A drive through Alabama shows how pro-union sentiments are rising in the deep South

Andrea Hsu

To understand labor in America, travel a short section of Interstate 20 through Alabama. Just off this highway, union hopes have been raised, crushed and dragged out for years.
Grizzly bears are set to be reintroduced to the North Cascades

John Ryan

The federal government says it will restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades region in Washington state, where they have not been seen since 1996.
Once a destination for abortion, Florida will soon have the most restrictive ban

Rosemary Westwood

Florida had been a destination for people in the Deep South to get abortions, but on May first a six-week abortion ban goes into effect there, making the region the most restrictive for the procedure.
Cleanup is underway after deadly tornadoes ripped across parts of Oklahoma

Anna Pope

This Weekend, tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma, Iowa and Nebraska. At least four people have died in Oklahoma and the destruction was enormous.
NPR News

The English Premier League title race is coming down to the wire

Gus Contreras

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Luis Miguel Echegaray, ESPN soccer analyst, about the two teams in the race for the English Premier League soccer title with only three weeks left in the season.

Load More