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Forty-five lives were lost. Thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed by the flash flood in July of 2022. While still adjusting to such heavy loss and amid much uncertainty, Eastern Kentuckians are giving careful consideration to the future. In addition to addressing the immediate need for housing on higher ground, that future includes preparing for the possibility of more frequent extreme weather. Is this a turning point? Or just another turn on the curvy road ahead? Residents demonstrate the most important key to a strong community is knowing how to show up for your neighbors.

Eastern Standard Episode for February 23rd, 2023.

Eastern Standard for March 2nd, 2023.On this week’s edition:Listening in as members of the Kentucky Student Voice Team have a discussion about the ways their races and ethnicities affect their learning experiences.Model on the EKU campus in Richmond is the state’s last remaining laboratory school where teachers learn how to teach real kids in real classrooms. Model Superintendent & Dean of K-12 Programs John Williamson is guest of Gill Hunter for our series on education in Kentucky.An update on the cost of replacing homes lost and repairing those severely damaged in the flash flood of July ’22.From the website of Tom Eblen’s guest in our series on Kentucky writers: “A bicultural child of a Malay mother and an Indian father, Amelia Zachry was different from the get-go, never quite fitting in. In this raw, inspiring memoir, she chronicles the long, winding journey that brought her from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Kentucky, USA—the place she and her family now call home.”And Duane Lundy welcomes to “Depth of Field” songwriter and music journalist Jeff Slate who, since 2013, has been contributing articles about music and culture to Esquire and liner notes for the 50th anniversary reissue of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the STAX Records 60th anniversary reissue series and albums by Small Faces and Shawn Colvin.

On this week's episode: From budding eastern Kentucky entrepreneurs to an update on colorectal cancer to the latest from poet Frank X Walker and why a big city girl now loves life in Hazard, Ky.

On this week’s edition: engineering’s climate change challenge, examining journalism’s Code of Ethics, a conversation with a Drag Show producer and the mechanics of the nap.

On this week’s Eastern Standard: A new analysis reveals the full extent of flood damage to homes in E. Kentucky; Pillar Two of the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics; the value of student journalism; A Chris Begley essay on the local reporter; the reopening of the Giles Art Gallery on the campus of EKU.

A Special Episode of Rise: Eastern Kentucky

The art and many professions of storytelling are the focus of this week’s edition; from why humans tell stories and the art of storytelling onstage to the fact-based storytelling of journalism and how a public display tells stories.

Thousands of landslides in eastern Kentucky and no insurance. The latest in our series on a Code of Ethics for professional journalists. High school theatre bounces back from Covid and flooding. And a special guest: Billy Joel’s longtime drummer - until all of a sudden he wasn’t, Liberty DeVitto.

Kentucky’s ranking as dead last among states for investment in green energy. The heavy impact of the pandemic on learning and proficiency in math and reading and how improvements in those areas would boost the Kentucky economy. And, the Lexington world premier of the touring photographic exhibition, “Shades of Compassion.”