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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Questions raised, questions answered: Why are things in short supply with prices rising? It's due mostly to an overwhelmed supply chain | Why are so many adult Kentuckians not being counted as working? We dig into an in-depth analysis of Kentucky's workforce crisis from the KY Chamber of Commerce | Why is chemotherapy on the way out, precision medicine on the way in and CRISPR technology waiting in the wings to treat cancer? | And what iconic American musician gets tribute treatment at the latest Music for Mission concert?
  • This week on Eastern Standard: Music made in Kentucky, played in Kentucky. Touching bases with artists from across the state with recent or new releases. The hour includes the debut of a new Kentucky Music series by Crystal Jones and samplings from the works of nine artists including: Eric Bolander, Logan Halstead, Cole Chaney, Cody Lee Meece, Kiana & The Sun Kings, Don Rogers, Scott Whiddon, Kevin Holm Hudson and Joslyn & the Sweet Compression. How did they come up with that band name, “Sweet Compression”? You’re about to find out.
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