By Linda Blackford | Editor
In recent years, Kentucky has really amped up its incentives for folks to make movies here, what with our quaint downtowns and rolling green hills. Also Ethan the dog is getting his own feature film! But are those tax breaks helping or simply giving away state dollars? McKenna Horsley takes a closer look.
Our friends at the Edge, a digital outlet in Berea, have explored the creation of Eastern Kentucky University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine. The aim is to keep more doctors in the state after they get a degree.
And in Commentary, the Mountain Association is celebrating 50 years of helping Appalachian communities.
Ethan Almighty, based on a true story in Kentucky, is a film currently in post-production. (Photo courtesy McClure Films)
By McKenna Horsley
Kentucky towns are serving as the backdrop of holiday movies, thrillers and “Ethan Almighty,” an upcoming film about the dog who inspired the passage of a Kentucky law criminalizing abuse of dogs and cats.
EKU is starting a College of Osteopathic Medicine. (Getty Images)
By Audrey Kimble
Doctors who train in Kentucky will practice in Kentucky.
That’s the thinking behind Eastern Kentucky University’s plan to build a medical school at its main campus in Richmond to help address a shortage of primary care and other physicians statewide. The first class of EKU-trained doctors is expected to graduate in the Fall of 2035.
Pine Mountain State Resort Park in October 2023. (photo by Sarah Ladd)
COMMENTARY
By Robin Gabbard
My connection to Appalachia didn’t begin when I became a community development professional; it began generations ago. Like many Appalachians, my story is woven into the history of our mountains and the communities that call them home. I chose to spend my career serving Eastern Kentucky because I believe in the people and places that shaped me.
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