On this week’s Eastern Standard: A new analysis reveals the full extent of flood damage to homes in E. Kentucky; Pillar Two of the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics; the value of student journalism; A Chris Begley essay on the local reporter; the reopening of the Giles Art Gallery on the campus of EKU.

On this week’s edition: engineering’s climate change challenge, examining journalism’s Code of Ethics, a conversation with a Drag Show producer and the mechanics of the nap.

On this week's episode: From budding eastern Kentucky entrepreneurs to an update on colorectal cancer to the latest from poet Frank X Walker and why a big city girl now loves life in Hazard, Ky.

Eastern Standard for March 2nd, 2023.On this week’s edition:Listening in as members of the Kentucky Student Voice Team have a discussion about the ways their races and ethnicities affect their learning experiences.Model on the EKU campus in Richmond is the state’s last remaining laboratory school where teachers learn how to teach real kids in real classrooms. Model Superintendent & Dean of K-12 Programs John Williamson is guest of Gill Hunter for our series on education in Kentucky.An update on the cost of replacing homes lost and repairing those severely damaged in the flash flood of July ’22.From the website of Tom Eblen’s guest in our series on Kentucky writers: “A bicultural child of a Malay mother and an Indian father, Amelia Zachry was different from the get-go, never quite fitting in. In this raw, inspiring memoir, she chronicles the long, winding journey that brought her from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Kentucky, USA—the place she and her family now call home.”And Duane Lundy welcomes to “Depth of Field” songwriter and music journalist Jeff Slate who, since 2013, has been contributing articles about music and culture to Esquire and liner notes for the 50th anniversary reissue of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the STAX Records 60th anniversary reissue series and albums by Small Faces and Shawn Colvin.

Eastern Standard Episode for February 23rd, 2023.

Forty-five lives were lost. Thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed by the flash flood in July of 2022. While still adjusting to such heavy loss and amid much uncertainty, Eastern Kentuckians are giving careful consideration to the future. In addition to addressing the immediate need for housing on higher ground, that future includes preparing for the possibility of more frequent extreme weather. Is this a turning point? Or just another turn on the curvy road ahead? Residents demonstrate the most important key to a strong community is knowing how to show up for your neighbors.

Forty-five lives were lost. Thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed by the flash flood in July of 2022. While still adjusting to such heavy loss and amid much uncertainty, Eastern Kentuckians are giving careful consideration to the future. In addition to addressing the immediate need for housing on higher ground, that future includes preparing for the possibility of more frequent extreme weather. Is this a turning point? Or just another turn on the curvy road ahead? Residents demonstrate the most important key to a strong community is knowing how to show up for your neighbors.

Episode 5 of "RISE Eastern Kentucky".

Episode Four of RISE explores the psychology of crisis and the mental health impacts of the July flood on survivors who lost everything, children, and whole communities destroyed by floodwaters. It also explores the stress and strain on caseworkers and first responders. Although there’s a strong cultural resistance to seeking professional mental health care, there’s also a strong culture of neighbors helping neighbors get by, kindness undeterred by crisis.

Episode three of RISE investigates an increasing frequency of extreme weather events such as the moisture-heavy storm system that stalled above 13 eastern Kentucky counties on the night of July 27, 2023 and intensified well into the morning of the 28th. The resulting flash flood claimed 44 lives and destroyed or severely damaged thousands of homes - homes located outside of officially mapped floodplains. The episode explores the question: are these storms the calling card of climate change?