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On this week’s edition of Eastern Standard: A Lexington waste management software firm takes on space junk | Kentucky’s poor national ranking for animal protection | An inductee into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame | The Augmented Reality of a Lexington art project honoring the African American family

On this week’s Eastern Standard: All about the middleman in the prescription drug pricing process | The debacle that often results when properties are left to multiple heirs and there is no will | A look at two of Lexington’s many public parks | The Gladie Visitors Center reopens as warm weather arrives in the Red River Gorge | Once a bad boy, Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen now has a street named after him.

On this week’s edition: Ending “spring forward, fall back.” But could Congress be on the verge of locking in the wrong time standard? | A 2nd edition of personal accounts by students who want to fight cancer in Eastern Kentucky | Communicating in a world flooded with information: take the Craap Test | Learning Center students offer revealing versions of the George Ella Lyon poem “Where I’m From” | Pioneer Playhouse takes theatre - and the Lyon poem - to prison with a mission to inspire

On this week’s Eastern Standard: The Eric Conn Social Security scam landed him in prison and left many in Eastern Kentucky holding the bag. Now there’s a documentary. We talk with Prestonsburg attorney Ned Pillersdorf | With a fresh infusion of funding, the Kentucky Wildlands tourism initiative looks to address trash, hospitality and entrepreneurship | We hear from the original Linked-In HR chief on profound change in the American workplace | And, a chat with a Nashville songwriting team and family band with deep Lexington roots: Brassfield.

On this week’s Eastern Standard: A special edition featuring the works of WEKU staff members, plus a contribution from one among our many content partners. The lineup: Stan Ingold on a Nicholasville fundraiser for Ukrainian refugees; Tom Martin talks with Robert Cornett, just returned from Poland where he and his wife, Linda, volunteered to help refugees from Ukraine; Appalshop’s Parker Hobson on an effort in Perry County to reduce a high rate of type-2 diabetes among the local population; Samantha Morrill on the prospects for trail tourism in Eastern Kentucky; Corinne Boyer checks on the pocketbook impact of high fuel prices; Cheri Lawson on why it’s important to support family and friends who identify as neither male or female.

On this week’s Eastern Standard: A special edition featuring the works of WEKU staff members, plus a contribution from one among our many content partners. The lineup: Stan Ingold on a Nicholasville fundraiser for Ukrainian refugees; Tom Martin talks with Robert Cornett, just returned from Poland where he and his wife, Linda, volunteered to help refugees from Ukraine; Appalshop’s Parker Hobson on an effort in Perry County to reduce a high rate of type-2 diabetes among the local population; Samantha Morrill on the prospects for trail tourism in Eastern Kentucky; Corinne Boyer checks on the pocketbook impact of high fuel prices; Cheri Lawson on why it’s important to support family and friends who identify as neither male or female.

On this week's edition: Environment reporter James Bruggers on the rising number of violations at surface mines, and a failure of state regulators to bring a record number of them into compliance. | "Ezell: Ballad of a Land Man", an interactive, immersive theatrical production from Clear Creek Creative, debuting in Berea | Life for the disabled, pre-ADA | Life for a quadriplegic who overcame paralysis to become a lawyer | The nation's first Black female Vice President and Supreme Court Justice are joined by Kentucky's first Black female Poet Laureate. A talk with Crystal Wilkinson | Details of the '22 season of the Tahlsound Concert Series

On the next Eastern Standard: The proposal to switch to permanent Daylight Savings Time, passed by the Senate, is hung up in the House. UK biologist Bruce O’Hara, who studies circadian rhythms, discusses how DST impacts physical health | McClatchy Washington political correspondent David Catanese on partisan redistricting in Kentucky and elsewhere | A conversation with the curator of a digital archive of 1930s recordings of Eastern Kentucky folk artists | How “devised theater” differs from improv | Details of the forthcoming Rural Assembly Everywhere

You may have sung the first verse of Stephen Foster’s “My Old Kentucky Home,” but are you aware of the story of slavery told in the remaining verses? Historian Emily Bingham has published a book about it. Tom Eblen gets details and we listen to a version performed by the baritone Paul Robeson. Our first ten-minute radio play highlights Jimmy Winkfield, the last of the great black jockeys. And we hear about the efforts of the Legacy Equine Academy to increase diversity and inclusion in the horse industry. As war rages in Ukraine with the alarming reality that no credible diplomatic track exists to end the war, two students from UK’s Patterson School of Diplomacy offer their thoughts and views. And we’ll have details of the annual Paris Story Fest.

On the next edition of Eastern Standard: Country music star Naomi Judd, whose recent death has been attributed tomental health issues, discusses her condition and life in a 2014 KET interview with journalist Bill Goodman. Eating disorders have increased in frequency during the pandemic. ES Contributor Cynthia Resor discussesthese conditions with a specialist in the field, Dr. Sydney Brodeur-Johnson. And in his 50th year covering the Kentucky General Assembly, Al Cross joins us to talk about legislative business being carried out in Frankfort behind doors closed to the public and reporters.