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Eastern Standard - Sept. 4th, 2025

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A secluded bend, just before sunset, on the Dix River in Garrard County, Kentucky.
Keith Halladay
A look at water quality in rivers and streams across the Commonwealth.

This Week on Eastern Standard

Lisa McKinney of the non-partisan, non-profit Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence raises concerns about the Trump administration clawback of federal education funding and its proposal to make further cuts in the coming year.

What’s in the water? That’s what Tiffany Messer, Associate Professor of Biosystems Engineering at the University of Kentucky, set out to discover, leading a team of researchers to document the contents of creeks, streams and rivers across the Commonwealth.

Grammy winning jazz violinist Zach Brock leads a fascinating conversation with Origins Jazz founders Chester Grundy and Richard Young. It was inspired by the forthcoming Equinox Jazz Festival, but is about so much more.

Luis Villalobos and his brothers, all accomplished violinists from the Veracruz region of Mexico, are the latest international artists being welcomed to Lexington by Greenroom Exchange. Luis joins us for a conversation that includes how he wound up on a Bruce Springsteen album.

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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