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Eastern Standard
WEKU's weekly public affairs program discussing topics and concerns of Central and Eastern Kentucky, hosted by Tom Martin
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Eastern Standard - Aug. 21st, 2025
Amphitheater in Lexington's new Gatton Park on Town Branch(Gatton Park) Eastern Standard Education Contributor Brigitte Blom and guest, RofL professor Roman…
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Eastern Standard - Aug. 14th, 2025
The EPA is moving to relax anti-pollution controls...(Shutterstock / Shutterstock) This week on Eastern Standard: Under the Trump administration, the EPA is…
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Eastern Standard - Aug 7th, 2025
Tori Votaw developed an interest in helping people overcome opioid addiction. She had seen it happen to too many friends and fellow students while in high…
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Eastern Standard - July 31st, 2025
Can Republicans and Democrats will engage in civil, respectful conversations about the issues?(Shutterstock / Shutterstock) This week on Eastern Standard…
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Eastern Standard - July 17th, 2025
As the Trump administration expands ICE arrests, detainments, and deportations, fears spread among Kentucky immigrant communities.(AP / AP) This week on…
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Eastern Standard - July 10th, 2025
Staffing is down, abuse and neglect are up at many child care centers across Kentucky(Shutterstock / Shutterstock) This week on Eastern Standard: Substantiated…
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Eastern Standard: July 3rd, 2025
(Shutterstock / Shutterstock) “Are we really just going to decide that we are going to be a divided country, and there’s going to be half of the population…
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Eastern Standard - June 26th, 2025
A Lake Herrington sunset.( Mike Holdren) Celebrating a century: Herrington Lake, a source of hydroelectric power and a central Kentucky destination for…
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Eastern Standard - June 19th, 2025
(Shutterstock / Shutterstock) Are we living through a major era of change in America? For perspective, we turn to renowned professor of History Heather Cox…
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Eastern Standard - June 12th, 2025
A 1960s game-changer: the IBM Selectric typewriter on display at the Lexington History Museum(Lexington History Museum / Lexington History Museum) When it…
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Eastern Standard: June 5th, 2025
Helix garage in downtown Lexington(Image provided by Pohl Rosa Pohl) The art — and challenges — of raising backyard chickens in an urban setting. Natalie Voss…
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Eastern Standard - May 29th, 2025
Business leaders say improving workforce participation in KY requires better child care options(Shutterstock / Shutterstock) This week on Eastern Standard…
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Eastern Standard - May 22nd, 2025
Part One Democracy must have at least two robust parties that both agree on certain core values—in particular, the importance of democratic institutions and…
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Eastern Standard: May 15th, 2025
Flooded Farm(Shutterstock / Bilanol) This week on Eastern Standard, Q&A with Inside Climate News reporter Kiley Price on the intersection of climate change…
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Eastern Standard - May 8th, 2025
Instruments destroyed by flood.(Commons / Commons) The Trump administration cuts to federal funding of colleges and universities, and the linkage of funding to…
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Eastern Standard - May 1st, 2025
Vet Tech Students with patient.(Wikimedia Commons) On this week's Eastern Standard Debra Hamelback, executive director of the Kentucky Veterinary Medical…
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Eastern Standard - April 24th, 2025
Scotia Mine Disaster Historical Marker(Historical Marker Database / Historical Marker Database) On this week’s Eastern Standard: Tracking “cause and effect” of…
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Eastern Standard - April 17th, 2025
In her book "Stolen Pride," Arlie Hochschild describes the “pride paradox” she documented in Eastern Kentucky.(Shutterstock / Shutterstock) In this week's…
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Eastern Standard - April 10th, 2025
Even holders of permanent residency "green cards" are facing uncertainty about their status(Shutterstock / Shutterstock) John Koehlinger is the Executive…
Eastern StandardEastern Standard - April 3rd, 2025
Lexington Police horses take a lunch break.(Friends of the Lexington Mounted Police, Inc.) Eastern Standard launches "The First Kentuckians", a new series on…
Eastern StandardEastern Standard - March 27th, 2025
The Girl Puzzle monument to Nellie Bly on New York's Roosevelt Island(Brad Connell) President Trump’s use of his presidential powers to retaliate against…
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Eastern Standard - March 20th, 2025
(Shutterstock / Shutterstock) Thinking of the times we are all living through, our bandwidths stretched to the limit, and our patience with those who see…
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Eastern Standard - March 13th, 2025
The “Excellence Gap.” Many Kentucky school districts lack the resources to offer the advanced courses required for employment in the Commonwealth’s growing…
Eastern StandardEastern Standard - Mar. 6th, 2025
Kentucky Hall of Fame inductees Crystal Wilkinson and Frank X Walker.(Tom Eblen/Tom Eblen) Crystal Wilkinson and Frank X Walker on being named to the Kentucky…
Eastern StandardEastern Standard - Feb. 27th, 2025
Some of the most troubled children in the Kentucky foster care system are being housed in state office buildings. We find out why and about a proposed remedy…
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Eastern Standard - Feb. 20th, 2025
It’s early 2025, but plans are already underway for the 2026 midterm elections and the 2028 presidential election. Joining Josh Douglas, host of this Eastern…
Eastern StandardEastern Standard - Feb. 13th, 2025
"Her memoir, <i>Composed</i>, is one of the best accounts of an American life you'll likely ever read." — The Chicago Tribune(Pamela Springsteen. / Pamela…
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Eastern Standard - Feb. 6th, 2025
As Lexington begins celebrating its 250th anniversary, the story of one of its early movers and shakers: Benjamin Gratz. Also, an account of the Cholera…
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Eastern Standard - Jan. 30th, 2025
Immigration employment attorney and Ky. State Representative, Nima Kulkarni(Louisville Public Media) The Kentucky realities and consequences of President…
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Eastern Standard - Jan. 23rd, 2025
Report: Annual Kentucky nursing home inspections are falling far behind.(Shutterstock / Shutterstock) When state inspections of nursing homes fall behind…
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Eastern Standard - Jan. 16th, 2025
A Presidential Inauguration on the steps of the nation's Capitol in Washington, D.C.(Shutterstock / Shutterstock) As one portion of the nation celebrates the…
Eastern StandardEastern Standard Special - Jan. 12, 2025
Alex Roe as "Will," a young central Appalachian father battling opioid addiction in the new film "HAZARD"(Eddie Mensore / Eddie Mensore) On this special…
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Eastern Standard - Jan. 09, 2025
Alex Roe as "Will," a young central Appalachian father battling opioid addiction in the new film "HAZARD"(Eddie Mensore / Eddie Mensore) Guest: Eddie Mensore…
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Eastern Standard - Jan. 2, 2025
SEC football statues on Monday April 17, 2017. Photo by Mark Cornelison | UKphoto(Mark Cornelison/Mark Cornelison / UKPhoto) Has the social and political…
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Eastern Standard - Dec. 19th, 2024
(Shutterstock / Shutterstock) Why Misdee Wrigley Miller is investing in Kentucky film production and talent - and her call on Frankfort to get organized as the…
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Eastern Standard - Dec. 12th, 2024
(Shutterstock / Shutterstock) Tangle News founder Isaac Saul on his method of maintaining a balanced diet - of news. The co-authors of Kentucky, Y’all on the…
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Eastern Standard - Dec. 5th, 2024
(Shutterstock / Shutterstock) Accounts of fear and anxiety among LGBTQ youth in the wake of the General Election and vows by President-elect Trump and other…
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Eastern Standard - Nov. 21st, 2024
Can Republicans and Democrats will engage in civil, respectful conversations about the issues?(Shutterstock / Shutterstock) In today’s atmosphere, is it still…
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Eastern Standard - Nov. 14th, 2024
MacArthur Genius Award winner Loka Ashwood(MacArthur Fellows Program/MacArthur Fellows Program) What is it like to learn you won the MacArthur Genius Award?…
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Eastern Standard - Nov. 7th, 2024
The “Read to Succeed Act” was intended to raise reading proficiency among Kentucky’s children from 29th in the nation. We get a report card. We have…
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Eastern Standard - Oct. 31st, 2024
Taped live before a student audience at the University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law, the final installment in this 17-part election year series focuses…
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Eastern Standard - Oct. 24th, 2024
Should the Kentucky legislature be authorized by an amendment to the state Constitution to fund private school education?
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Eastern Standard - Oct. 17th, 2024
What is it like to serve in a state legislature, be the Missouri secretary of state, run for U.S. Senate, create a voting rights organization, and flirt with…
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Eastern Standard - Oct. 10th, 2024
Why is multi-Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Janis Ian donating her entire personal archive — including those Grammys — to Berea College? We ask and the…
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Eastern Standard - Oct. 3rd, 2024
On Episode 15 of the Eastern Standard special series, Democracy Optimist:
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We explore the immigration experiences of Lexington’s Swahili-speaking community — after English and Spanish, the African-based language is the 3rd-most-spoken…
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Eastern Standard - Sept. 19th, 2024
Many ask why we use the Electoral College to elect the president. It might seem arcane in today’s world. Many say it’s unfair and that we should use a national…
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Eastern Standard - Sept. 12th, 2024
It is arguably the most sensitive social issue as the November 5 General Election nears: abortion and women's reproductive rights.
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Eastern Standard - Sept. 5th, 2024
From strict voter ID laws that don’t recognize tribal IDs, to limits on allowing others to deliver their ballots, many Native Americans face voter suppression…
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Eastern Standard - Aug. 29th, 2024
Lexington’s Tom Hammond, a legend in network sportscasting, has co-authored a memoir with another legend: Herald-Leader sports writer Mark Story.
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Eastern Standard - Aug. 22nd, 2024
Elaine Kamarck, a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, and Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Kamarck is…
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Eastern Standard - Aug. 15th 2024
Beth Polin explores the challenges to breastfeeding while holding down a job with EKU Economics Professor Cynthia Harter.
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Eastern Standard - Aug. 1st, 2024
With this edition, we begin looking into concerns about cuts in public school arts programs.
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Eastern Standard - July 18th, 2024
The issues and obstacles faced by working mothers are Beth Polin’s focus in this debut of her new ES series on working moms.