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Eastern Standard

Eastern Standard May 25, 2023

By Tom Martin

Published May 25, 2023 at 10:55 AM EDT

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The struggle between a coal industry watching its market decline and a power generation industry determined to shift to renewables. The beginning of an Eastern Standard tradition: the immediate past Kentucky Poet Laureate interviews their successor. Crystal Wilkinson sits down with Silas House. And a heads up about where you can take that stuff jettisoned after spring cleaning.

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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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