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As a finale to our fall pledge drive (thank you!), Eastern Standard presents the staff of WEKU with reports and interviews: Corinne Boyer on a hospital in covid crisis - Cheri Lawson visits with a couple who embody a marriage of arts - Stu Johnson on the latest efforts to bring down Kentucky’s high rate of heart disease - Tom Martin gets season details on the Origins Jazz Series - Samantha Morrill on preparations to receive Afghan refugees - Wendy Barnett chats with the founder of Red Barn Radio, now entering its third decade. Your support in action. 1-800-621-8890 or online at WEKU.org

As a finale to our fall pledge drive (thank you!), Eastern Standard presents the staff of WEKU with reports and interviews: Corinne Boyer on a hospital in covid crisis - Cheri Lawson visits with a couple who embody a marriage of arts - Stu Johnson on the latest efforts to bring down Kentucky’s high rate of heart disease - Tom Martin gets season details on the Origins Jazz Series - Samantha Morrill on preparations to receive Afghan refugees - Wendy Barnett chats with the founder of Red Barn Radio, now entering its third decade. Your support in action. 1-800-621-8890 or online at WEKU.org.

Celebrating the trees that provide oxygen, shade, habitats and yes, lumber, are the focus of a week of October celebrations in five Kentucky communities. We tap into three. | More forestland has been added to the Warbler Ridge Preserve on Pine Mountain | Pulitzer Prize finalist and Kentucky author Margaret Verbal discusses her latest, “When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky” | Why the “X” in LatinX is so problematic | Details of the Paris Storytelling Festival

Celebrating the trees that provide oxygen, shade, habitats and yes, lumber, are the focus of a week of October celebrations in five Kentucky communities. We tap into three. | More forestland has been added to the Warbler Ridge Preserve on Pine Mountain | Pulitzer Prize finalist and Kentucky author Margaret Verbal discusses her latest, “When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky” | Why the “X” in LatinX is so problematic | Details of the Paris Storytelling Festival

As the legal aid service AppalReD turns 50, its founder turns 90. John Rosenberg on escaping Nazi terror, immigrating to the United States, and a lifetime spent giving legal voice to the people of the Eastern Kentucky coalfields. | What tops the agenda at this year’s SOAR Summit in Corbin? | What is cryptocurrency and how does it work? Answers from EKU finance professor Ben Woodruff | A little-known achievement of and a KET/PBS documentary about the Frontier Nursing Service

As the legal aid service AppalReD turns 50, its founder turns 90. John Rosenberg on escaping Nazi terror, immigrating to the United States, and a lifetime spent giving legal voice to the people of the Eastern Kentucky coalfields. | What tops the agenda at this year’s SOAR Summit in Corbin? | What is cryptocurrency and how does it work? Answers from EKU finance professor Ben Woodruff | A little-known achievement of and a KET/PBS documentary about the Frontier Nursing Service

Kentucky’s teacher shortage: already there and then came the pandemic | Bryan Station H.S. grad becomes a Senior Editor at the Atlantic | A chat with Louisville film and music producer Gil Holland | New book based on what’s on the bottom of Kentucky’s man-made lakes | Big changes for Eastern Standard arts partner Undermain

Kentucky’s teacher shortage: already there and then came the pandemic | Bryan Station H.S. grad becomes a Senior Editor at the Atlantic | A chat with Louisville film and music producer Gil Holland | New book based on what’s on the bottom of Kentucky’s man-made lakes | Big changes for Eastern Standard arts partner Undermain

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This week’s edition focuses entirely on one of the ugliest of “Kentucky Uglies” - our state’s ranking among the worst in the nation for rates of intimate partner violence. We hear from domestic violence shelter directors, legal aid attorneys, a police detective and 9-1-1 dispatcher and staff at the Kentucky Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This week’s edition focuses entirely on one of the ugliest of “Kentucky Uglies” - our state’s ranking among the worst in the nation for rates of intimate partner violence. We hear from domestic violence shelter directors, legal aid attorneys, a police detective, a 9-1-1 dispatcher and staff at the Kentucky Coalition Against Domestic Violence - all devoted to extending an often life-saving hand, shelter and a range of support to women and men who manage to escape the horror of a violent home.