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The Russian assault on Ukraine may have an impact on daily life in the states; some state lawmakers are proposing a tax rebate plan, and a house committee has approved a bill concerning religious institutions. Mountain Edition, weekday afternoons @ 5pm on WMKY.

Open Mic: Rowan County Regional Quilt Show 2022

Golden Age of Radio #189

Mountain Edition: Week of February 7, 2022

February 8, 2022 — John Ruskin was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. Ruskin's writing styles and literary forms were equally varied.

February 9, 2022 — Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child.

Golden Age of Radio #190

February 10, 2022 — The area of Manhattan where four streets – Anthony (now Worth), Cross (now Mosco), Orange (now Baxter), and Little Water (now nonexistent) – converged was known as "The Five Points". Mulberry, notorious for slum tenements, was one street down from the Five Points.

John Maxey - Superintendent, Rowan County Schools (4/15/22)