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Eastern Standard Feb. 15, 2024

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Climate change impacts such as wildfires are reversing air quality improvements
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Climate change impacts such as wildfires are reversing air quality improvements

The rate of chronic absenteeism in Kentucky’s public schools has reached 30 percent. Education contributor Brigitte Blom hears from experts who say student absenteeism is a lingering impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The significant gains of the past 50 years in U.S. air quality have been reversed by the effects of climate change, according to an analysis by scientists at the First Street Foundation.

Tennessee poet Jane Hicks discusses her battle with cancer and how, if we just pay attention, we can discover beauty and wonder in a brush pile.

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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