Eastern Standard - July 10th, 2025
Jul 10, 2025•53 min
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Staffing is down, abuse and neglect are up at many child care centers across Kentucky(Shutterstock / Shutterstock)
This week on Eastern Standard:
- Substantiated incidents of abuse and neglect in Kentucky child care centers are up 73% from 2022. Herald-Leader Government Accountability reporter John Cheves documents this and other troubling statistics in a three-part series on a vital service stretched thin by staff shortages.
- What do Nicholasville, the Kentucky Constitution, and Thomas Jefferson have in common? Denis Fleming connects the dots in a new book.
- The concerns and anxieties of patients need an outlet as we hear in Judy Flavell’s conversation with Dr. Robert Slocum, coordinator of the Narrative Medicine program at UK Health Care.
- Traditional Appalachian dishes are reimagined in a Modern Mountain Cookbook: A Plant-Based Celebration of Appalachia. Author Jan Brandenberg joins us.
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