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Eastern Kentucky initiative aims to address unemployment gap
Shepherd Snyder
A new program that would help eastern Kentucky’s unemployed community find work officially launched Tuesday.
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    Eastern Standard - March 27th, 2025
    Tom Martin
    President Trump’s use of his presidential powers to retaliate against certain law firms has sent a chill throughout the legal profession, threatening not just the ability of lawyers to do their jobs but also the ability of private citizens to hire lawyers to represent them.
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    Eastern Standard - March 20th, 2025
    Tom Martin
    Thinking of the times we are all living through, our bandwidths stretched to the limit, and our patience with those who see things differently stretched thin, contributor Carolyn Dupont, EKU historian and state coordinator of the Red-Blue dialogue facilitators Braver Angels, hosts a conversation with the author of a book about overcoming all of that divisiveness in our daily lives.
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