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Eastern Standard

Eastern Standard May 4, 2023

By Tom Martin

Published May 4, 2023 at 10:55 AM EDT

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A call on state legislators to act against gun violence and an appeal from the mothers of two young shooting victims in Lexington; emerging from the flood of ’22: details of diabetics cut off from insulin supplies; a UK experiment makes fresh, wholesome foods available to rural diabetics; Kentucky author and poet Jonathan Green; A Chris Begley essay about a Kentucky strength: its writers.

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.

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