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  • Robby Cosenza was beloved in Lexington for his art, music and good humor. His close friend and colleague Duane Lundy remembers Robby in conversation with Tom Martin.
  • Part Two of a financial crisis for the vital service of childcare looms as a second “fiscal cliff”, a legacy of emergency pandemic aid, approaches.
  • Episode Two of the Eastern Standard series "Democracy Optimist" connects the importance of local elections which also will appear on the November ballot to the daily lives of voters.
  • The latest in our ongoing series about America’s flirtation with autocracy. Our guest is Matthew Howell, Associate Professor of Government at Eastern Kentucky University. Believing the structure of American democracy to be sound, time-tested, and resilient, Dr. Howell is confident the country can weather the 2024 presidential election.
  • On this week’s Eastern Standard:After escaping dictatorship in his home country of The Congo for democracy in the U.S., EKU professor Patrick Litanga describes seeing his adopted home country flirt with authoritarianism.
  • The rate of chronic absenteeism in Kentucky’s public schools has reached 30 percent. Education contributor Brigitte Blom hears from experts who say student absenteeism is a lingering impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Do surface mines and mountaintop removal sites worsen flooding in Eastern Kentucky coalfield communities?
  • Democracy Optimist, an election-year special series from WEKU, Eastern Standard, and Dynamix Productions, delivers expert background on election law and voting to prepare you for the 2024 general election on November 5.
  • As Republicans and Democrats in the Kentucky legislature offer wildly differing proposals for universal pre-K, education series host Brigitte Blom gets the stakes from early childhood care and education expert Dan Wuori.
  • Atlantic writer and Naval War College Professor Emeritus Tom Nichols offers perspective on the prospects of a US Military under the command of an authoritarian White House.
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