Regional News

Business, political, religious, education and other leaders in the Cincinnati area are working to create a preschool funding program. The effort is called The Cincinnati Preschool Promise. WNKU's Steve Hirschberg talked about the initiative with Greg Landsman, Executive Director of Strive Partnership, a cradle to career education consortium.

Security for next month's Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati will be beefed up because of last week's bombings at the Boston Marathon. That's the word from Iris Simpson-Bush, the executive director of the three-day event, which begins May 3. She spoke with WNKU's Steve Hirschberg.

An organization called the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life is working on an on-line encyclopedia of Southern Jewish communities. As part of that project, the institute's  historians have been collecting oral histories from Jewish residents of Ashland, Kentucky. One of those historians, Josh Parshall, talked with WNKU's Steve Hirschberg.

Career expert, author, and USA Today columnist Andrea Kay will be in Hyde Park tomorrow to sign her new book “This is How to Get Your Next Job”. Ms. Kay will answer questions about why employers frequently reject qualified job seekers as new hires. WNKU's Matt Kelley asked her if the timing of her book release is a response to the economic conditions across the country…