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Eastern Standard - June 20th, 2024

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Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, is pushing for a warning label on social media platforms advising parents that using the platforms might damage adolescents’ mental health. Kentucky Youth Advocates Executive Director Terry Brooks discusses the influence of social media on children with Dr. Tony Zipple of the Bounce Coalition and Kelly Pullen, of the Aetna SKY Program in Kentucky.

We’ll tell you about a project to restore forests to old surface mine sites, and about the pumped storage power generation technology coming to Bell County.

And, experiencing as a child, memories of adults we never met. It’s the basis of a new novel from Kentucky author Ellen Birkett Morris.

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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