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Eastern Standard: December 18th, 2025

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Kentucky has fallen behind on investing in Pre-Kindergarten programs.
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Kentucky has fallen behind on investing in Pre-Kindergarten programs.

At one time, an admired national leader in education, Kentucky has fallen behind. There are many consequences, but one that has a far-reaching impact is in quality childcare — Pre-Kindergarten that prepares our youngest learners for school. Sam Flynn aims to change that. He details how in this conversation with ES education contributor, Brigitte Blom.

With the holidays upon us we have dipped into a December, 2022 edition to bring back four of Kentucky’s outstanding authors and poets: Silas House, Georgia Green Stamper, Joseph Anthony and Crystal Wilkinson. In this segment, Tom Martin and Silas House discuss the author’s short story, “She Came to Mercy.”

With the holidays upon us we have dipped into a December, 2022 edition to bring back four of Kentucky’s outstanding authors and poets: Silas House, Georgia Green Stamper, Joseph Anthony and Crystal Wilkinson. In this segment, Georgia Green Stamper gives us a delightful reading of her take on “The Three Wise Men.”

With the holidays upon us we have dipped into a December, 2022 edition to bring back four of Kentucky’s outstanding authors and poets: Silas House, Georgia Green Stamper, Joseph Anthony and Crystal Wilkinson. In this segment, novelist and poet Joseph Anthony reads “The Ugliest Christmas Tree.”

With the holidays upon us we have dipped into a December, 2022 edition to bring back four of Kentucky’s outstanding authors and poets: Silas House, Georgia Green Stamper, Joseph Anthony and Crystal Wilkinson. In this segment, Eastern Standard literary contributor Tom Eblen and poet and author Crystal Wilkinson discuss Wilkinson’s “The Visit.”

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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