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The focus of Episode 4 of Democracy Optimist, an Eastern Standard special election year series: 4.6 million Americans have lost their right to vote because of a felony conviction due to a policy known as felon disenfranchisement. The policy has a disproportionate impact on people of color given our criminal legal system. -
Shutterstock/ShutterstockHistorian Clayborne Carson, keeper of the papers of Martin Luther King, Jr: One person’s wokeism is another’s democracyA safe method to remove toxic lead paint from pre-1978 homesA new book about the nation’s oldest non-ticketed Shakespeare Festival. It’s here in Kentucky.Crystal Jones investigates the ways we listen to music and how technology has changed both listening to and creating music.
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With bourbon sales booming there is pressure on a key resource: the white oak. Eastern Standard’s Crystal Jones reports. -
This week on Eastern Standard, how the changing climate and extreme weather is forcing up the cost of property insurance. -
“It’s Time” is a campaign against domestic violence launched by the city of Lexington. -
"We have to quit whispering about it” —Yvette Hourigan, Executive Director of the Kentucky Lawyers Assistance Program, on the stigma that prevents us from talking openly about suicide. -
On Todays Eastern Standard, Mental health issues, exacerbated by the conditions of the pandemic, are becoming evident in schools, from first grade through college. -
On this week's edition of Eastern Standard: Tom Eblen in conversation with Barbara Kingsolver about her best-selling Appalachian novel, Demon Copperhead. -
A Special Edition of Eastern Standard, for our Fall Fund Drive. Part One: The College of Charleston grad student who discovered records of the largest single auction of enslaved people.Part Two: An update on economic development in southeast Kentucky.Part Three: The grit, determination, and flexibility it takes to succeed in local and regional theatre production. -
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The first part of a three-part series on the mission to eliminate chemical weapons at a Central Kentucky Army facility
