© 2025 WEKU

NPR for Northern, Central and Eastern Kentucky

Support WEKU!

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

Public Media funding is under threat. You can help! Join WEKU's 1850 campaign for the future! 1,850 new supporters, each giving $10 monthly to keep WEKU strong. We are down to 1529 to go! Donate today!

Daily News Podcast

WEKU News Podcast - Mar. 19, 2024

By Wendy Barnett

Published March 19, 2024 at 3:20 PM EDT

Ways To Subscribe

Math Bill - EKU President David McFaddin - Ibogaine Lawsuit - House Bill 8/The GRANT Program - Lexington Water Week - Lexington 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan - Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House - Former Surface Mine Reforestation - Pulaski County Circuit Court Clerk Joseph Flynn Update

Tags

Daily News Podcast Math Bill - HB 162 EKU President David McFaddin Council on Postsecondary Education Hazard Community and Technical College Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman Ibogaine House Bill 8 Lexington Water Week 2024 City of Lexington Lexington Environmental Quality and Public Works 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan Silas House Poet Laureate Reforestation Pulaski County

Wendy Barnett

Wendy oversees all station operations and serves as All Things Considered host. She began her career at WEKU in 2001.

See stories by Wendy Barnett

Related Content

NPR News

The suspect in the shooting of 2 Minnesota lawmakers has been captured and charged

Meg Anderson

Vance Boelter was captured in a wooded area on Sunday night, and charged in the shootings of two state lawmakers and their spouses. His first court appearance is scheduled for Monday.
NPR News

This mother relies on SNAP to help feed her kids. Now, she's bracing for cuts

Katia Riddle

Millions of people who use the food assistance program SNAP are facing changes: on what food they can buy, how much money they'll receive or even if they'll still qualify for the program.
Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar discusses killing of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman

Michel Martin

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., about the killing of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, who was fatally shot a day after they had dinner together.
Suspect in killing of Minnesota lawmaker and husband taken into custody and charged

Matt Sepic

The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and wounding another lawmaker and his wife on Saturday was taken into custody and charged, state officials said.
NPR News

Britain's MI6 spy agency names first female chief

Lauren Frayer

It's a case of real life catching up with James Bond fiction: Britain's MI6 spy agency named its first-ever female chief. She used to be Q. Now she'll be C.