Listen to the showHealth Care PossibilitiesEarlier this month, President Obama called on Congress to tackle the issue of health care reform this year. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted there could be a bill under consideration in her chamber by the end of July.Gabe Bullard has been speaking to some local officials about why health care is so expensive, and what kind of legislation might emerge from Capitol Hill.
- Paul Krugman on the latest talk of health care reform
- National Coalition of Health Care report on costs
- An Economist article on Obama's proposed health care reform
Education Numbers
Statistics released this week by the state indicate graduation rates and drop-out rates are up in Kentucky. However, there’s good reason to believe those numbers are inaccurate. Kentucky Public Radio’s Charles Compton reports.
Seniors4Kids 
- Generations United/Seniors4Kids
- Kentucky Department of Education/Early Childhood Development
- Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence
Nancy Jo Kemper
The woman who heads the Kentucky Council of Churches reitres next month. The Reverend Nancy Jo Kemper began her tenure in the summer of 1991. After spending much of her early career in the pulpit, Kemper admits, she didn’t know what to expect in her new position. She says she never got the impression at the state capitol it’s wrong to mix politics and religion.
Church Giving 
Faith-Based Drug Recovery
There is certainly more than one road to recovery in the fight against drug addiction. One strategy is based on religion. Stu Johnson reports on how such faith-based treatment programs work.
Landscaping and Climate ChangeScientists aren’t always so keen on predicting how climate change will affect a region as small as, say, the Ohio River Valley. But landscapers and gardeners can tell you that changing conditions are affecting what they plant when and where. Kristin Espeland has the story on how landscapers and gardeners are preparing for a warmer world.
- Verdant Design
- Bernheim Arboretum
- Hotter Times
- Arbor Day Foundation
- USDA Hardiness Zone Map
- American Horticultural Society
As You Like It
An local theater company applies its own innovative ideas to its staging of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.”
Sweet Spot 
In 1884, a 17-year-old Louisville woodworker named Bud Hillerich turned a piece of white ash wood into a baseball bat. That bat and Hillerich's subsequent creations were, well, a hit. Ten years later Hillerich registered the name Louisville Slugger with the U.S. Patent Office. The Louisville Slugger brand went on to become as iconic as many of the players who used the bats. Recently, two writers, David Magee and Philip Shirley, were granted access to the Louisville Slugger Museum's photographic archives for a new coffee table book about the company and its famous product.
- Sweet Spot: 125 Years of Baseball and the Louisville Sluggerby David Magee and Philip Shirley Published by Triumph Books
- Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory
