Tori Votaw developed an interest in helping people overcome opioid addiction. She had seen it happen to too many friends and fellow students while in high school in Georgetown, Ky. Now a PhD addiction psychologist at Harvard, her work focuses on personalizing treatments for substance use and addiction. She tells us how that work is now imperiled by President Trump’s proposed FY ’26 federal budget.
Education series host Brigitte Blom recently visited the Anaheim California school district and heard something that she wanted to bring back to Kentucky: that gone are the days when getting a high school diploma alone is enough to give a young person a shot at having some success in life. Her guest is Michael Matsuda, creator of a new educational model designed to provide today’s high school graduates with an entirely new set of skills to navigate a digital, social media-informed, AI-influenced world.
Bill Estep has just about seen it all. A veteran of 40 years of reporting for the Lexington Herald-Leader, Estep recently retired. And he has plenty to say about the state of journalism today.
