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 tech industry. Dolly Parton’s “Imagination Library” is getting books into the hands of children across Kentucky. Richmond novelist Wesley Browne is out with a new crime novel. He describes it as “The Sopranos meet the Hatfield & McCoys.” Time to dust off and spruce up that old guitar you never use. It has a new life waiting: WoodSongs creator and host Michael Johnathon tells us about plans to provide replacement instruments to eastern Kentucky musicians who lost their own in recent flooding.