(Image: Shutterstock) A list of questions for Fayette County Clerk Don Blevins about the 2020 General Election, made unusual and extraordinary by a pandemic and a divided nation | Tom Eblen interviews UK Law Professor Joshua Douglas about his new book, How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of Voting  | 19th Amendment co-host Jackie Jay talks election dynamics with EKU Government Professor Anne Cizmar | State of Justice reporter Rae Garringer looks into the status of felon voting rights  Interviews in order of appearance:  Tom Martin with Fayette County Clerk Don Blevins  Tom Eblen with UK Law Professor and author, Josh Douglas  19th Amendment Series: Jackie Jay with EKU Government Professor Anne Cizmar  State of Justice Series: Rae Garringer explores felon voting rights   Contact: Tom Martin at [email protected] or leave voicemail at 859-622-9358  If you appreciate access to this important content during this global pandemic, please help us continue to provide public service journalism and information to Central and Eastern Kentucky communities. Please make your contribution to WEKU today.

(Image: Shutterstock) A pandemic priority: children. A child psychiatrist weighs-in on abuse and neglect now going unnoticed | The 4th annual Music for Mission tribute channels John Lennon. The virtual concert marks the 80th anniversary of Lennon's birth and the 40th anniversary of his death. | Future Tense: We walk like an Egyptian | Help for struggling small businesses and entrepreneurs | What’s left in the wake of the Black Jewel bankruptcy | Kentucky’s Secretary of State champions early voting  Interviews in order of appearance:  Tom Martin with Dr. Ginny Sprang - How for some kids the pandemic is taking things from bad to worse  Tom Martin with Anita Courtney - Local artists honor and channel John Lennon  Future Tense: Chris Begley with Egyptologist  Kara Cooney  Tom Martin with Bobby Clark - Support for budding Eastern Kentucky entrepreneurs   If you appreciate access to this important content during this global pandemic, please help us continue to provide public service journalism and information to Central and Eastern Kentucky communities. Please make your contribution to WEKU today.

(Image: Shutterstock) Unmasking threats to liberties versus threats to lives: welcome to the world of the public health worker | Doctors experiencing burnout in rising numbers. We hear of a solution | Jailed before the outbreak, released in the midst of it: reentry in a pandemic | The stresses of the times and the allure of alcohol and drugs | Twin pandemics as viewed by a Central Kentucky high school senior  Interviews in order of appearance:  Dr. Donna Arnett, dean, UK College of Public Health - Public health versus the pandemic  Dr. Shawn Jones, president, Kentucky Medical Association Foundation - Physician burnout  Series - State of Justice, Part One: Reentry in the time of Covid-19  Dr. Lon Hays - The allure of alcohol and drugs in pandemic conditions  Series - Teaching in a Pandemic: Student perspectives

(Interior of Cincinnati's Old Main Library)  Not letting a pandemic get in the way, the Kentucky Book Festival is “on” - virtually. | A mini book festival of our own features poet Lynell Edwards; novelists Wesley Browne and Karen Salyer McElmurray; and, the new non-fiction from the Ohio Valley Resource, documenting views of America from the perspectives of the coal-mining communities of Appalachian Kentucky  Interviews in order of appearance:  Tom Martin with Sarah Volpi Woods - Kentucky Book Festival  Tom Eblen with poet Lynell Edwards  Tom Martin with Wesley Browne, author of Hillbilly Hustle  Tom Martin with Ohio Valley Resource Managing Editor Jeff Young, author of Appalachian Fall  Tom Martin with Karen Salyer McElmurray author of Wanting Radiance   If you appreciate access to this important content during this global health pandemic, please help WEKU continue to provide public service journalism and critical information to Central and Eastern Kentucky communities. Please make your contribution to WEKU today.

(Image: Shutterstock) A psychiatrist on moral and ethical dilemmas found on the frontlines of covid-19 | A commercial real estate broker on what’s happening to that home-away-from-home, the office. | Who did the heavy-lifting for the hemp industry of the 19th century? | Kentucky’s new Commissioner of Education after his first week on the job  The interviews, in order of appearance:  Tom Martin with Dr. Ginny Sprang, UK Psychiatrist  Tom Martin with Jamie Schrader, Lexington commercial properties broker  WFPL's Jess Clark with KY Education Commissioner Jason Glass  Tom Martin with Centre College historian Andrew Patrick  (Read/download Dr. Patrick's article for the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society)

(Photo: Courtesy of Dr. Gerald Smith) “We must make America what America says it is.” A new series debuts with a focus on racial justice and equality | How the pandemic is aggravating the gap between Kentucky’s rich and poor school districts | A superintendent prepares as his district moves to in-person instruction | The story of Stand, Lexington’s new monument to women who fought for the right to vote Interviews in order of appearance:  Tom Martin with Anna Baumann - Kentucky's rich-poor schools gap  Tonya May with David Gilliam - A school district prepares for return to classrooms  Gerald Smith with William Turner - Our new series on racial justice and equality  Tom Martin with Jennifer Mossotti - The story behind "Stand," a monument to Women's Suffrage

(Image: Shutterstock) The Quarantine Psyche, Part 2 | KY warned again about antibiotic overuse | Chris Begley with Dan Wu: an SOS on behalf of restaurants | New Blog "Un-Tucks" Kentucky.  Interviews in order of appearance  Tom Martin with Dr. Helen Boucher - Antibiotic Resistance  Tom Martin with Dr. Seth Himelhoch - Part 2: The Pandemic Psyche  Chris Begley with Dan Wu - Future Tense  Tom Martin with Rebecca Hanchett - New blog discovers Kentucky's tucked-away gems

(Image: Shutterstock) What is this thing we’re experiencing? Some call it “quarantine fatigue.” We explore the symptoms and coping strategies with Psychiatry chair Seth Himelhoch | How Kentucky’s largest school district is managing under pandemic conditions with Supt. Marty Pollio | Keeneland’s new leader on planning the thoroughbred industry’s most important yearling sale under pandemic conditions |  Bobbie Ann Mason on her new novel, “Dear Ann” | Why MACED changed its name  Interviews in order of appearance:  Tom Martin with Dr. Seth Himelhoch, UK Psychiatry Chair  Tonya May with Jefferson Co. Schools Supt. Marty Pollio  Tom Martin with Keeneland President/CEO Shannon Arvin  Tom Eblen with author Bobbie Ann Mason  Tom Martin with Mountain Association  President Peter Hille

Child vaccinations have declined in Kentucky since the pandemic struck in March | How Berea Schools are reopening | Some backstory on the newly renamed Henry Tandy A. Centennial Park, formerly known as Cheapside Park | Silas House's take on the good and the bad  of what we're going through | Did you know? Kentucky horse race tracks once resembled dragstrips  Segment One: Vaccinations | School reopenings | Cheapside Park renaming - LISTEN  Segment Two: Future Tense with Silas House | A look at early horse racing in Kentucky - LISTEN  Interviews and features in order of appearance:  Tom Martin with Dr. Dale Toney  Tonya May with Dr. Diane Hatchett  WEKU's Stu Johnson on renaming of Cheapside Park in honor of Henry A. Tandy  Future Tense host Chris Begley with author Silas House  Tom Martin with MSU professor Gary O'Dell on early horse racing in Kentucky

(Image: Shutterstock) What a 43-county survey finds happening in Kentucky’s child welfare system under pandemic conditions | Our series on reopening schools in a pandemic takes us to the Corbin Independent School System and Superintendent David Cox | The Kentucky Women Writers Conference goes virtual for its 42nd annual gathering of literary stars and aspiring authors | Our “Future Tense” series highlights how the pandemic is happening simultaneous to a racial awakening   Interviews in order of appearance:  Tom Martin with Shannon Moody, Kentucky Youth Advocates  Tonya May with David Cox, Supt., Corbin Independent School System  Tom Martin with Randi Ewing, president, Kentucky Women Writers Conference  Chris Begley with Carol Taylor-Shim,  Director of Bias Incident Support Services at UK