Eastern Standard: November 13th, 2025

In a time when federal environmental programs and funding are being scaled back or cut altogether, what are the future prospects for students aspiring to careers in environmental fields? The Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability in the Environment is sponsoring a “Careers in the Environment” Career Fair on November 18. We raise that question and get details for the event from Hannah Angel, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Natural Resources and Environmental Studies at the University of Kentucky.

What is Agroforestry and what are its benefits for the people of Eastern Kentucky? For answers, we turn to Steve Kruger, Director of Forest Livelihoods at LiKEN — Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network.

Madeleine Pollard, from a Lexington family, charmed her way into Washington, D.C.’s elite society, and by age 17, tumbled into a ten-year affair with Kentucky Congressman William C.P. Breckinridge. Eventually, he tossed her aside and married someone else. And that sets the scene of a remarkable true account, "Alias Agnes" by Elizabeth DeWolfe. She talks with Eastern Standard Literary Contributor Kevin Nance.

The Lexington-based Southern Rock band Magnolia Boulevard is out with a new album. We’re joined in-studio by the band’s founders, Maggie Noelle and Ryan Allen.