Eastern Standard for September 22, 2022

Never far from our minds these days: school safety and security. Education contributor Gill Hunter gets an update from state School Security Marshall, Ben Wilcox. | Why is the state short-handed and challenged to deliver services? Some answers from Jason Bailey, founder and Executive Director of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy. | In partnership with CivicLex, we launch “Civic Shorts,” an election-season primer on those more obscure local elected offices vying for your vote on Nov. 8 | Former NYTimes and Wall Street Journal news executive, now visiting professor at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, Penny Abernathy is deeply concerned about the future of professional journalism and the implications for democracy. | Letcher Countian Tiffany Williams is the daughter, granddaughter and great granddaughter of coal miners. How this influenced her latest album “All Those Days of Drinking Dust” | The music of India - in Kentucky. We explore through music the Indo-American community of central and eastern Kentucky.