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In today's Think History, Bill Goodman tells us about a Hall of Fame Football Coach.

In today's Think History, Bill Goodman tells us about the Fighting Garrards.

Never far from our minds these days: school safety and security. Education contributor Gill Hunter gets an update from state School Security Marshall, Ben Wilcox. | Why is the state short-handed and challenged to deliver services? Some answers from Jason Bailey, founder and Executive Director of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy. | In partnership with CivicLex, we launch “Civic Shorts,” an election-season primer on those more obscure local elected offices vying for your vote on Nov. 8 | Former NYTimes and Wall Street Journal news executive, now visiting professor at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, Penny Abernathy is deeply concerned about the future of professional journalism and the implications for democracy. | Letcher Countian Tiffany Williams is the daughter, granddaughter and great granddaughter of coal miners. How this influenced her latest album “All Those Days of Drinking Dust” | The music of India - in Kentucky. We explore through music the Indo-American community of central and eastern Kentucky.

Efforts to inundate local elections officials with records requests only weeks before we go to the polls: we ask the state’s top elections official, Secretary of State Michael Adams, what’s going on? | Episode 2 of our election-season series defining the jobs of local offices on the Nov. 8 ballot. | How the region’s largest school district is faring as pandemic effects linger: education contributor Brigitte Blom speaks with Fayette County Schools Superintendent Demetrus Liggins. | Details of a trio of upcoming events: the 100th anniversary of Lexington’s historic Kentucky Theater; Tree Week in Lexington and other communities in the region; the 49th annual Celebration of Traditional Music at Berea College.

Efforts to inundate local elections officials with records requests only weeks before we go to the polls: we ask the state’s top elections official, Secretary of State Michael Adams, what’s going on? | Episode 2 of our election-season series defining the jobs of local offices on the Nov. 8 ballot. | How the region’s largest school district is faring as pandemic effects linger: education contributor Brigitte Blom speaks with Fayette County Schools Superintendent Demetrus Liggins. | Details of a trio of upcoming events: the 100th anniversary of Lexington’s historic Kentucky Theater; Tree Week in Lexington and other communities in the region; the 49th annual Celebration of Traditional Music at Berea College.

Is it possible to get a divided America back on speaking terms? Meeting of America aims to find out, and it begins in Kentucky. We’ll hear from co-founder Pearce Godwin and Meeting of America Kentucky Director, Julie Babbage. | CivicLex Director Richard Young returns with another in our weekly election season series on state and local offices appearing on the Nov. 8 ballot. This week: the County Sheriff. | Child Care in Kentucky won support from the American Rescue Plan. But those funds end soon and the Prichard Committee’s Benjamin Gies spells out what lies beyond that fiscal cliff. | And, getting to know Melisse Brunet, the new Lexington Philharmonic Music Director and Conductor with an ear for jazz.

Is it possible to get a divided America back on speaking terms? Meeting of America aims to find out, and it begins in Kentucky. We’ll hear from co-founder Pearce Godwin and Meeting of America Kentucky Director, Julie Babbage. | CivicLex Director Richard Young returns with another in our weekly election season series on state and local offices appearing on the Nov. 8 ballot. This week: the County Sheriff. | Child Care in Kentucky won support from the American Rescue Plan. But those funds end soon and the Prichard Committee’s Benjamin Gies spells out what lies beyond that fiscal cliff. | And, getting to know Melisse Brunet, the new Lexington Philharmonic Music Director and Conductor with an ear for jazz.

Presidential biographer and historian Jon Meacham is out with a new book about Abraham Lincoln. We discuss the parallels between the divisive atmosphere of 1861 and the present. | Novelist Geraldine Brooks discusses "Horse", her book about the famed racehorse "Lexington" and the pervasive racism within the racing industry of the 19th century | Melynda Jamison of CASA-Lexington (Court Appointed Special Advocates) details her children's book, "Oscar's Family." | We'll hear from Shayla Lynch, the Carnegie Center's new director, about programs to support budding as well as established Kentucky writers | CivicLex director Richard Young returns with his weekly series on the jobs of local "down ballot" offices on the Nov. 8 ballot. This week: the County Attorney.

Presidential biographer and historian Jon Meacham is out with a new book about Abraham Lincoln. We discuss the parallels between the divisive atmosphere of 1861 and the present. | Novelist Geraldine Brooks discusses "Horse", her book about the famed racehorse "Lexington" and the pervasive racism within the racing industry of the 19th century | Melynda Jamison of CASA-Lexington (Court Appointed Special Advocates) details her children's book, "Oscar's Family." | We'll hear from Shayla Lynch, the Carnegie Center's new director, about programs to support budding as well as established Kentucky writers | CivicLex director Richard Young returns with his weekly series on the jobs of local "down ballot" offices on the Nov. 8 ballot. This week: the County Attorney.

It’s unusual for one person to appear twice in an edition of ES, but Whit Whitaker does just that: in his role as Director of the Lyric Theater in Lexington, and as a cast member of our latest radio play, “Three’s a Charm” by David Miller, also starring Roger Leasor and Paul Thomas. | “Math Anxiety” is explored with UK Math Education professor Jonathan Thomas in Gill Hunter’s series on education | CivicLex Director Richard Young details the job of the County Clerk for our election-season series on local offices appearing on the Nov. 8 ballot | We get details on local artists paying tribute to Dolly Parton and on a new release from the Lexington instrumental band Archipelago.