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WEKU's weekly public affairs program discussing topics and concerns of Central and Eastern Kentucky, hosted by Tom Martin

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  • How to push the civility reset button. A thoughtful conversation between two leaders of “Braver Angels,” a nationwide movement with a Kentucky chapter that is working to help people overcome loss of friends and family estrangements to the divisiveness of our times.
  • Why AI makes rural access to broadband internet all the more essential. Education contributor Brigitte Blom, in conversation with EKU Artificial Intelligence strategist Lisa Blue.
  • What are the consequences of environmental deregulation? The Trump administration has done away with the “endangerment finding,” an EPA process that had identified six greenhouse gases as dangerous to human health under the Clean Air Act.
  • Episode 27 of our series, “Democracy Optimist,” hosted by University of Kentucky election law and voting rights research professor Joshua Douglas.
  • 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.
  • The public is generally unaware that Social Security is projected to fall into insolvency in 2032, according to an extensive national survey. Our guest: Mike Murphy, policy analyst with the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget in Washington, discusses likely consequences and potential solutions.
  • Nick Jacobs, co-author of “The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America,” is Carolyn Dupont’s guest for the latest episode of her Eastern Standard series, “Civics, Civility and the path to a Shared American Future.”
  • What are the implications of Artificial Intelligence in elections? Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams is Art Shechet’s guest for this latest episode of our series “The AI Revolution: Promises and Perils.”
  • Our series, “The AI Revolution: Promise and Peril” continues with guest Lisa Blue, Director of AI Strategies at Eastern Kentucky University.
  • “The Future Would Like A Word”- Episode 26 of our series, “Democracy Optimist,” hosted by UK election law and voting rights research professor Joshua Douglas.
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