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Eastern Standard - May 23rd, 2024

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Kentucky has a shortage of Registered Nurses estimated at 6,000
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Kentucky has a shortage of Registered Nurses estimated at 6,000

As we hear from Brooke Bentley, Chair of the EKU School of Nursing, and Associate Chair Lisa Jones, Kentucky needs registered nurses - 6,000 of them.
Sportswriter Jerry Tipton talks with Tom Eblen about his memoir on four decades of Kentucky Basketball.
Novelist Bobi Conn’s “Someplace Like Home” is out and we get background on the dysfunctional household abuse that inspired it.
Chad Hembree runs Berea’s Spotlight Acting School, Spotlight Film School, and the community theatre Bluegrass Players. He is Bill McCann’s guest for the latest in our series on Kentucky Theatre production.

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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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