On this week’s edition of Eastern Standard:
Accounts of March 9 and March 11, 1976, when the Scotia coal mine in Letcher County exploded, killing 26 miners. On the 50th anniversaries of the explosions, our guests, Bill Bishop and Brian McKnight, recall these back-to-back disasters.
Artificial Intelligence and the news. It’s the focus of this latest episode in our series “The AI Revolution: Promise and Peril” with guest Peter Baniak, former Managing Editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader, now an instructor of journalism at the University of Kentucky.
The art and craft of weaving is making a comeback in the Appalachian region. Rural Remix reporter Toni Doman, herself a weaver, has the story.