On this week’s Eastern Standard:We get some help for our heads as holiday pressures mount. University of Kentucky psychologists Michelle Martel and Matt Southward offer suggestions.

From her chronicle of the spectacular collapse of AppHarvest, reporter Austyn Gaffney walks us through her in-depth reporting on dangerous working conditions, lofty, unfulfilled promises, and investors left with little to nothing.

The “Red Scare” of the fifties came late to Kentucky. Lexington Herald-Leader government accountability reporter John Cheves gives details of his article about the Kentucky UnAmerican Activities Committee of the late sixties.

Kentucky has a “Kid Workforce” labor crisis. It’s the focal point of the essay that begins Kentucky Youth Advocates’ 33rd Annual “Kids Count Data Book.”

Gurney Norman, master of the short story, and outspoken advocate for the people of Appalachian Kentucky, was raised in the Alais Coal Camp in Perry County, Kentucky, and educated at the Robinson School in nearby Blackey, Kentucky, the University of Kentucky and Stanford University.

The lockdown and isolation conditions of the pandemic worsened existing student mental health issues and introduced others.

With bourbon sales booming there is pressure on a key resource: the white oak. Eastern Standard’s Crystal Jones reports.

This week on Eastern Standard, how the changing climate and extreme weather is forcing up the cost of property insurance.

“It’s Time” is a campaign against domestic violence launched by the city of Lexington.

"We have to quit whispering about it” —Yvette Hourigan, Executive Director of the Kentucky Lawyers Assistance Program, on the stigma that prevents us from talking openly about suicide.