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The struggle between a coal industry watching its market decline and a power generation industry determined to shift to renewables. Dan Gearino, a reporter with the Pulitzer Prize winning Inside Climate News, on renewable energy…

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Artificial Intelligence, art and copyright: what is legal? What is not? Do we even know? Questions for UK law professor Michael Murray who specializes in AI, Art and Copyright law and protection. 

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Live performances of chamber music will return to central Kentucky with the revival of the Lexington Chamber Music Orchestra. The LCO has been absorbed by the successful Chamber Music Festival of Lexington. Our guests: Festival executive director Cacey…

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• A call on state legislators from the Kentucky Black Caucus to act against gun violence and an appeal from Lexington’s Mayor and the mothers of two young shooting victims to put down the guns. 

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• Counties hosting bourbon aging warehouses pushback against the state legislature vote to end the state’s barrel tax. Our guests: Lexington Herald-Leader reporters Janet Patton and Austin Horn. 

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• Brooke Gentile and Katie Harvey from the Organic Association of…

Thousands of landslides in eastern Kentucky and no insurance. The latest in our series on a Code of Ethics for professional journalists. High school theatre bounces back from Covid and flooding. And a special guest: Billy Joel’s longtime drummer -…

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• Why do we tell stories? And is folklore truth, fantasy or something in-between? Our guest: JeanMarie Rouhier-Willoughby, Professor of Russian Studies, Folklore and Linguistics at the University of Kentucky. …

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• Six months after the flood of ’22 in Eastern Kentucky and the numbers are in: 9-thousand homes, damaged or destroyed. Rebecca Shelton from the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center walks us through…

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• Army Corps of Engineers professionals on the difficulty of designing and planning as climate change accelerates and spins off extreme weather. LISTEN
• Part One of a four part series examining the…

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• A contest for budding Eastern Kentucky entrepreneurs. Details from Geoff Marietta of Invest 606 LISTEN
• Leaving big city life for Hazard, Kentucky - and loving it. Our guest is Hazard Downtown Coordinator Bailey…

• Listening in as members of the Kentucky Student Voice Team have a discussion about the ways their races and ethnicities affect their learning experiences.  LISTEN
• Model on the EKU campus in Richmond is the state’s last remaining laboratory school where…

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School superintendents call for respect and support of teachers. A plan to have the backs of parents with kids in school. A new book about Shirley Chisholm, first Black woman in Congress. How Mt. Sterling is upping its…