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Eastern Standard

Eastern Standard for March 31, 2022

By Tom Martin

Published March 31, 2022 at 6:58 AM EDT

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On this week’s edition: Ending “spring forward, fall back.” But could Congress be on the verge of locking in the wrong time standard? | A 2nd edition of personal accounts by students who want to fight cancer in Eastern Kentucky | Communicating in a world flooded with information: take the Craap Test | Learning Center students offer revealing versions of the George Ella Lyon poem “Where I’m From” | Pioneer Playhouse takes theatre - and the Lyon poem - to prison with a mission to inspire

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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.

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